Not as great a hatch rate for the peacocks. Six total hatched- four on their own and two with help.
I candled a few before we pulled the plug and found more quitters and a few I wasn't sure about. We cracked a couple open to see if we could guess why the others didn't hatch. The first one had a fully formed chick inside. The other one was a quitter.
My best guess is that because our incubator was overfilled, the humidity was too high throughout the incubation and/or there wasn't enough air movement around the eggs. Disappointing, but a learning experience.
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