Those who need help in sexing peafowl

[DylansMom]

She was all alone. The only one out of the 5 eggs. She was eating and drinking. I know how to hatch eggs and my incubator may not have a humidity gauge or what ever but I've hatched birds from many species. My aunt figured lack of protein because she's seen the same thing with chickens, ducks, geese, emus, ostriches, rheas, and pheasants and it was the same cause for the feet, lack of protein. I don't plan on buying a humidity gauge. If you help a chick out to early they bleed out through the umbilicus cord, and to late they might die inside the egg. Can't take the chick out of the egg. Once the chick has started and there hasn't been any progress for like 8 hours then you can chip a few shells away. The chick has to push itself out. Thor and Calypso I've watched drown mice in their water bowl and then leave them.

One egg hatched out of 5? That is about a 20% hatch rate. Do yourself a favor and DO get a humidity gauge, if the humidity is too low at pipping/hatching time, it will CAUSE them to die in the shell. We move our eggs to a hatcher for the last 3 days and we jack that humidity up to about 90%, as I said in my other reply, we had a 90% hatch rate with all our hens on 16% protein layer feed for the entire season.

 

[Yoda]

She was all alone. The only one out of the 5 eggs. She was eating and drinking. I know how to hatch eggs and my incubator may not have a humidity gauge or what ever but I've hatched birds from many species. My aunt figured lack of protein because she's seen the same thing with chickens, ducks, geese, emus, ostriches, rheas, and pheasants and it was the same cause for the feet, lack of protein. I don't plan on buying a humidity gauge. If you help a chick out to early they bleed out through the umbilicus cord, and to late they might die inside the egg. Can't take the chick out of the egg. Once the chick has started and there hasn't been any progress for like 8 hours then you can chip a few shells away. The chick has to push itself out. Thor and Calypso I've watched drown mice in their water bowl and then leave them.

Ok, first off mice in your pen is NOT good at all. See birds look at mice poop as pellet food and eat it thus they get sick from it. So mice in the peapen is a NO-NO. Second I never told you to go and buy a humidity gauge, but if you INDEED have the EXPERIENCE you claim to have and have hatched out all these different types of birds then you SHOULD own one. Otherwise your humidity is not at the correct levels and instead of taking the blame for it, you keep quoting your Aunt. Now 5 miles from my house is a Bird hospital with a certified bird vet running it. Do you want me to print pages and bring them to her so she can read this and state what we have been saying from the start? It might make your Aunt look bad and I really do not want to do that. But you are posting stuff on here and we are trying to help you and teach you about raising peafowl but you have it in your own head that:

1 thor is a boy, when in fact he is a she but you will not get past you perfect bird raising to see it.
2 that peachicks die from curled toes cause they lack protien, but you gave the chick game bird feed which is high in protien
3 you have rodents running around with your birds and that is a NO NO but you like to tell us how your birds kill rodents.
4 tell you your humidity is off and that is why you got curled toes but you tell us you hatched out birds with NO humidity gauge. Had you had one you might not have to be pelling the shell with your fingers or making the egg bleed or having the chick die in the egg
5 why am I typing all this with a broken wrist for someone who really doesn't care what I have to say or suggest?

 

[frenchblackcopper]

I had a feeling it was meant as a tutorial.

I should have brought popcorn

 

[Yoda]

I should have brought popcorn

with salt and pepper yum yum

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Yoda, when you first popped up here I said: "Welcome to the hen party!"
But I should have said: "Leave while you still can!!"
You've been dragged down into the whirling tidepool of Pigheadedness and Delusion!!!
Woe is you!!

 

[zazouse]

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Oh Zaz. You're a star.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Then tell me what sex Coco was. I sexed her a hen.

I got a 50/50 shot at getting this correct by just guessing looking at a picture,same as you have.Not bad odds,eh? Only two possible answers,male or female,not like it's a multiple choice.But unless you DNA or learned a way to vent sex at 1 day old,until you achieve a 95% proven accuracy rate,you cannot say "I can sex IB peachicks easily on day 1" You cannot visually comprehend that Thor is actually a "Thora" at 6 months of age,let alone a 24hr peachicks sex.I can 100% sex IB chicks at 3months of age but I'm here to learn so please show me this proven method at 24hrs of age please? Pics would be nice too.

 

[zazouse]

I got a 50/50 shot at getting this correct by just guessing looking at a picture,same as you have.Not bad odds,eh? Only two possible answers,male or female,not like it's a multiple choice.But unless you DNA or learned a way to vent sex at 1 day old,until you achieve a 95% proven accuracy rate,you cannot say "I can sex IB peachicks easily on day 1" You cannot visually comprehend that Thor is actually a "Thora" at 6 months of age,let alone a 24hr peachicks sex.I can 100% sex IB chicks at 3months of age but I'm here to learn so please show me this proven method at 24hrs of age please? Pics would be nice too.

 

[zazouse]

with salt and pepper yum yum

Pepper? never tried that. must add to bucket list