I'm sorry to hear about the eggs, but to help you out for next time I have a few questions. Did you have the eggs shipped to you? Did you candle them earlier in incubation? If the eggs are totally see through then they were likely not fertile in the first place. Usually you can easily detect...
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Last year I had a three year old hen raise her own peachicks in a pen with a two year old hen and a peacock that would attack me. They knew to stay away from mom, but I actually would observe the peacock interacting with the chicks. Leo7 posted a video of his green peafowl families showing the...
Okay. I will try to let the peahens incubate their own eggs this time since I cannot arrange to get any chickens to incubate the eggs. I will see how lower humidity goes and let you guys know later this month hopefully.
The past years I have had great luck with them, even shipped eggs. I was using broody chickens to start the eggs though. I oh as my Temminck's tragopan hatch so I turned the humidity down to 45%. I will see if that helps. The humidity remains constant so the midway deaths really had me stumped...
I was wondering what humidity you guys incubate at. I have still yet to hatch a peachick this year, and I am getting quite frustrated. My pheasant eggs and ornamental duck eggs have been incubating at 55% humidity and I have been doing great with them, especially the ducks that I have nearly...