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In an egg turner in a cool place.

That's great! Thanks for the follow-up, those are going to be really nice burds.

The most used combination is 60% at 99.6, I have one incubator at 55% doing a comparison this year. I used to raise the humidity in the hatcher but quit this year and stay with the 60% which is working well.

With experience comes understanding. The 'dirty little secret' of big breeders, myself included, is a hatch rate that just makes me sick. Then again if there was really such a thing as 100% hatch rate with peafowl they would be as cheap as chickens.

I have done that too and with good results with chickens and guineas, but not with peachicks. This spring we forgot about a full turner of guinea eggs and all but one hatched fine, the one that didn't zipped and dried out.

We tend to beat ourselves up trying to figure out what did or did not happen right. I would stop turning sooner. I was having some hatching problems and when I moved into the hatcher sooner a lot of those problems went away.

It keeps out the riff raff.

Never even considered that there would be a BYC FB page, then again, there is one for every other group so why not. I am in about four peafowl groups and one secret group on FB, it isn't so different than here except that the discussion is much faster. The big difference to me is that this...

For the most part I would say yes. I try to entice them to come back but I don't think they feel the need to give back to the forum that helped me so much when I was getting started. I can see their points about answering the same old 'what color or sex is this chick?' And the same cocci and...

Saw your note too late, darnit.

No, not noticeably.

No salt need, I think you are on to something. You will find that peas are way harder to hatch than chickens and guineas, but your thought on the point down turner could very well be my problem. I have had a habit lately of waiting until they pip to transfer the eggs into the hatcher. I set...

Yeah I was doing that, but then I cut one and it bled out.

I appreciate that. It is not genetic as it is happening with different birds from different pens. I start my nutrition program in the fall when the eggs are being developed for the next hatching season and continue through the season. I thought maybe it was the hatcher I was using and...

No they are not.

I have been having a problem with herniated navels. About six of 30 chicks in this batch, so far, have been like this. The umbilical cord will not detach and the chick will pull its gut out trying to get away from the shell. Once it dries the cord is very tough to break, almost like fishing...

Medicated chick starter is not required but it won't hurt any more than it won't help. Amprolium, like Corid is not very effective for game birds like peafowl. Although the idea is to give micro dosages of cocci to help build up resistance, it just does not work very well. My vet has me...

You are running the humidity too high during the incubating period. The correct humidity can vary by location, generally, 55% to 60% is high enough although one year I had to run at 45%. Start weighing your eggs and aim to lose 10% to 15% of the total egg weight by hatch time. 75% is a good...

For the last two years I have raised my peachicks on pine shavings and haven't lost one to impaction yet. I don't use the small shavings just the large flake type. Yes they do eat some of the wood, and they eat feathers too, and when they go out to the outside brooder they also eat hay. I...

After I remembered that I have lab quality mercury thermometers in my HatchCraft inc and hatcher I started checking the temps in the HC hatcher and the Sportsman The HC inc was good at 99.5* the hatcher was running at 102* and the Sportsman at 101* Even though they are all digital controlled...