I have had 100% hatch rate for the past two years and I rotate eggs from day one until they start pecking.
How about with larger hatches? Not meaning to sound rude, but 100% of 3 eggs?? Not much of a gage, in my opinion.
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I have had 100% hatch rate for the past two years and I rotate eggs from day one until they start pecking.
I understand, it's a lot easier to get a higher hatch rate with a lower number of eggs. I let my hens hatch out a clutch as well. I don't have enough room to keep lots of peachicks, that's why I keep it a low number. Someday I'll incubate more eggs, and I won't be surprised when the hatch rate drops from 100%. If I kept a 100% hatch rate with a large number it would be a miracle.
Thank you for your honesty on this subject. I got very good at hatching shipped chicken eggs, but find pea eggs to be very challenging. I'm sorry that hatches are still less than you'd like, but comforted by knowing I'm not the only one who struggles.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.
Thank you for your honesty on this subject. I got very good at hatching shipped chicken eggs, but find pea eggs to be very challenging. I'm sorry that hatches are still less than you'd like, but comforted by knowing I'm not the only one who struggles.
Currently have 5 viable eggs on their 23rd day. I stopped turning them 12 hours earlier than past clutches, and left them in the brinsea. Hopefully the stability of this bator will help them hatch better than the last 5.
Those of you that have luck with hatching pea eggs, what do u set ur hatcher temp & humidity to? I've been dropping the temp to ~98.8 and raising the humidity to ~70%.
Thank you for the info!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.
Thank you everyone here who made suggestions!!! I took the suggestions, made some changes to my hatch process & look what happened!
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I used the brinsea for hatching. Set it at 99.6 w 60% hum, and stopped turning on day 23. All 5 eggs in hatcher hatched! (6th chick hatched under a peahen). All have beautiful toes and straight legs. Thank you!!!