Hatching Peafowl

[Saayyylorr]

Hi this is my first time incubating peafowl eggs! I ordered two online (from peafow.com). I’m on day 7 tomorrow. I’ve been incubating with a gqf 1502 sportsman and I’ve been keeping the temp stable at about 99.5-100 and a stable humidity around 60%. I have them in peafowl specific egg trays and they’re being automatically turned multiple times a day along with two turns by hand 180 degrees. I candled them today on day 6 and they both seem to be developing (pictures included below). I don’t know much about air sacks so I’m not sure about what I’m looking for. I don’t know how to tell if they’re too large or too small or if they’re in the right place. Do air sacks move when you turn the egg? Do my eggs look okay? (In one of the photos where there’s a visible airsack there is writing in pencil on it that kind of look like veins)

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

If that's the air cell it's way too big. The air cell shouldn't move, but it does sometimes with shipped eggs.

 

[Saayyylorr]

If that's the air cell it's way too big. The air cell shouldn't move, but it does sometimes with shipped eggs.

Do I decrease humidity then?

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Maybe to 50%, I know peafowl are supposed to have a higher humidity but the air cell is too big so you might want to go by that.

 

[Saayyylorr]

Maybe to 50%, I know peafowl are supposed to have a higher humidity but the air cell is too big so you might want to go by that.

I candled one of them again and the embryo or heart or eye or whatever it is is in there with veins around it so it is developing but the air sack is confusing me. It looks as if it gets larger in the back if that makes sense? The other egg isn’t like that. Is that normal for a large egg? I’m sorry if I’m asking too many questions I’m very new to this.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

It's not too many questions It's called a saddle air cell, it happens sometimes in shipped eggs. The embryo looks good so far!

 

[Saayyylorr]

It's not too many questions It's called a saddle air cell, it happens sometimes in shipped eggs. The embryo looks good so far!

Should I do anything different for it? It’s developing but I don’t know how hatching will go. Is there a chance it could somewhat normalize later on in incubation? I current have the egg on its side with a slight angle of the smaller side pointing down should I change that? The other egg looks like this and has the same development, but air cell seems normal to me.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Continue what you are doing. Not every embryo makes it for a dozen reasons but yours look good so far!

 

[Saayyylorr]

Continue what you are doing. Not every embryo makes it for a dozen reasons but yours look good so far!

Okay thank you!!