I found a Peacock egg! I found a Peacock egg!

[IggiMom]

Actually, my husband found it. He just happened to see it on the grass, no nest or anything.

It has to be a Peafowl egg, because nothing else here lays an egg that big. We have a turkey, but, well, he couldn't have done it.

I have two questions. The hen who laid it has to be very young, only a year old. That would be why she would be so silly as to lay an egg randomly, not on a nest. There is an older male, but the only hens are a year old. Is there any chance at all it would be fertile?

Second question: how long does a Peafowl egg take to incubate? Anything else I should know?

Of COURSE, even if it couldn't be fertile, I'll put it in the incubator and give it a chance. In fact it is already in there, surrounded by the tiny Guineas that just hatched today.

Anyway, I wondered, any thoughts?

Catherine

 

[deerman]

Yes yearling hen will sometime lay,and if with 2yr or older peacock,good odd it will hatch.

Reason i keep all my yearling hens with older peacocks. hatch many peachicks from yearling hens.

28 days some hatch early 26 days

 

[IggiMom]

Oh great, thank you, well it is in the incubator!

Catherine

 

[homesteadingcowgirl]

I just got my first pair a couple of months ago, they are about one year old. I would love to see a pic of your egg. We had them when I was little, but I don't remember what they looked like. I am guessing similar to a turkey's. Good Luck

cowgirl

 

[ebonyann]

Good to know, cause I thought they weren't fertile at all until at least 2 years.

 

[vnploveschickens]

Could you take pics of the egg? I'd love to see them.


Good luck!!

 

[MommaHen23]

Great news!! Can't wait to see the egg!!

Peafowl can be funny that way, you really can't tell if the egg is fertile til ten or so days after incubation.

I have had good luck this year with incubating all eggs I found. (80%) Must be the heat we have been having. (oklahoma)

Can't wait to see the egg pics!!

 

[reesepoultry]

Sometimes peafowl can take 30 days to hatch.

 

[b.hromada]

Thats so cool! congrats!

 

[IggiMom]

Update on my Peacock eggs. Actually, there are two, as I found another one in the yard a few days later.

Of course they are both in the incubator.

I candled them last night and they are both developing!

The youngest one was veining. The older one was dancing about! I told my husband that this would be HIS peacock, since he found the egg.

I wish I knew who the mama was, but I think Daddy Bird must be Big Bird, my old Peacock who is probably about 20 years old. The other boys are a little young, I think, at only a year old.

But anyway, I was all thrilled that the eggs were fertile.

Catherine