Those who need help in sexing peafowl

[frenchblackcopper]

That makes sense... I'm not trying to argue, I'm just really curious, what could explain a 26 day hatch from hens that you put eggs under? I've had six chicken hens and one turkey hatch out chicks in 26 days. Most of those eggs were set within a week of being laid, were stored in a cool room and the hens had nesting boxes in my house which stays nice and cool.

-Kathy

If those eggs was marked as to date laid Kathy,,I would bet the eggs laid last were the ones that hatched at 26 days,,I keep track nightly when I collect eggs,each egg dated and pen it came from,then that all gets recorded in my Bird Bible. This past season normally every 7 days I would put in a group,and the eggs collected the same night,or the night previous to going inside the bator all pipped first.

 

[Birdrain92]

I put my chicks in this cage that we used to have a turtle in and I have a 4ei chick bator incubator sitting on top in a small area with a towel on top so it is higher than 75 degrees but not as much maybe 78 degrees. https://www.dunlaphatchery.net/Supplies/Incubators/Incubator.aspx 4EI is the incubator I use as a heat lamp because in the instructions it say you can. I wasn't aware of it. When it comes to problems like retracted tendons you work with it to get it straight. May take longer and I never even heard of the shoes.
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Well, I don't know anything about pied peababies!
But here are some clues for guessing about IB peachick sex:



(easier to see if you click on image to enlarge)

 

[new 2 pfowl]

OK, I can see how you might think I was talking about primaries there.
But I was really talking about secondaries, as in this other image I posted:

I really don't have an opinion about primary color, honestly.

 

[DylansMom]

That makes sense... I'm not trying to argue, I'm just really curious, what could explain a 26 day hatch from hens that you put eggs under? I've had six chicken hens and one turkey hatch out chicks in 26 days. Most of those eggs were set within a week of being laid, were stored in a cool room and the hens had nesting boxes in my house which stays nice and cool.

-Kathy

I remember someone on the UPA forum talking about climate possibly being a factor as well. I think it was DCT, but I'm not 100% on that. But the jist was, the cooler climate of say Canada seemed to contribute to a 28 day hatch time, while a climate like yours would more likely support a 26 day. Latent air temp. and such. Perhaps my being in PA would put me more or less in the middle and explain why 27 seems to be our magic number. ????? Mindy

 

[Birdrain92]

It's all about temp. My duck for example layed 6 eggs. 4 of them hatched on the same day and 2 never hatched. It depends on where most of the heat is. Hens will move the eggs to different parts of the nest to slow down some of her eggs or speed them up. That's what I think is so awesome about birds. They can have eggs on different days and know how to get most all of the hatching ones to hatch on the same day.

 

[Birdrain92]

What about the rusty brown for the male and a darker brown on the wing. I'm pretty sure that's the primary feathers. Last I checked those are the colors.

 

[casportpony]

What about the rusty brown for the male and a darker brown on the wing. I'm pretty sure that's the primary feathers. Last I checked those are the colors.

I have a few females with rusty brown primaries. Barring is the best way, IMNSHO, lol. -Kathy

 

[DylansMom]

It's all about temp. My duck for example layed 6 eggs. 4 of them hatched on the same day and 2 never hatched. It depends on where most of the heat is. Hens will move the eggs to different parts of the nest to slow down some of her eggs or speed them up. That's what I think is so awesome about birds. They can have eggs on different days and know how to get most all of the hatching ones to hatch on the same day.

You are aware that they hatch on the same day because the hen starts to sit on them on the same day, thus they all start to develop on the same day, right? It makes no difference if 1 is laid today and another is laid a week from today, without a hen sitting on them they are at the same stage(undeveloped) and will remain so until they are sat on. This is what makes it possible for us to trade eggs and ship eggs and all that, because they have not started to develop yet.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

It's all about temp. My duck for example layed 6 eggs. 4 of them hatched on the same day and 2 never hatched. It depends on where most of the heat is. Hens will move the eggs to different parts of the nest to slow down some of her eggs or speed them up. That's what I think is so awesome about birds. They can have eggs on different days and know how to get most all of the hatching ones to hatch on the same day.

Hens purposely move and roll eggs to prevent the chicks from being crippled and for better comfort.I think your giving poultry in general way to much credit for intelligence,because a chicken or peahen will sit on wooden eggs,,which in no way will hold heat like an egg with a growing embryo will,,yet the hen will sit on a wooden egg way past 21days,not knowing it's not real.Chickens will drink dirty water when a clean water bowl is full right next to the filthy water bowl. And the list goes on,,time for the popcorn.

 

[Birdrain92]

She would lay an egg and sit on it. Then lay another and sit on that one. When she layed and egg she would sit on it right then and there. As for my peahen she would abandon the egg until her 5 she tried to lay on the last one I took.