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[Kedreeva]

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They can, but there's a lot of reasons why people hatch in incubators especially for peas. For one, the chance of the babies getting something that can kill them (disease, infection, infestation of worms) is really high because they have just awful immune systems when they are really young. There's also a greater risk of predators to both the eggs and the chicks (and the mom while she's on the nest because she may not leave if something comes up). Then some people also want hand-raised chicks because they are a lot friendlier in most cases, and peahen raised ones are quite a lot more "wild".

 

[DMFarm]

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They can hatch and raise the chicks. Most breeder that raise peafowl incubate the first 2 clutches of eggs to get more peachicks not because the mother can't raise them. I let the hens hatch and raise there last eggs been doing this for years and the peahens has raise several hundred peachicks over the years. Sure you might loose a few this way but you will loose them in brooders as well. Peahens has been hatching and raising peachicks for 1000's of years. The people that say they will get sick and die from the mother raising them know very little about raising peafowl. The disease that kills most peachicks is coccidia they can get it raise on wire or on the ground. I have 4 or 5 peahens setting on eggs now if they hatch they will raise the chicks. Peachicks do so much better if they are raise by the mother. Here is a mother and her peachick she hatch July 2 the chick is 4 days old when I took the picture this is the only egg she was setting on she didn't want to get off it so I let her have it.

 

[dewgal09]

Was your flash not working? I can barely make anything out.

 

[MinxFox]

That is a pretty peahen! I am letting Ice set on three eggs and they should hopefully hatch today or someday soon. I really hope she hatches those eggs! I have been wanting one of my peahens to raise peachicks for a while. At first I didn't even want to incubate eggs but now I am probably going to do a bit of both. I think taking a few eggs insures that the eggs don't get eaten before the peahen can set them or something since for a while this year the eggs were being eaten or something would always go wrong like Damsel's egg being hatched too soon and the chick dying. Taking the eggs and incubating them insures that these little mistakes don't happen but of course even we can break eggs on accident luckily it hasn't happened yet. Also I think the peahens do a good job incubating the eggs and turning them. It is far less stressful when you don't have to worry about the eggs and turn them and temperature when you have your peahen sitting on the eggs you just don't worry so much about that stuff and don't feel as responsible. That is kinda what I think.