Raising Pheasants need help!

[boneaddict]

Something is wrong with your set-up....... humidity, temp, rotatating, age of eggs going in.  Have any stats or whats your process. 

[JBar]

Bone- I don't have any info other than the age of the eggs going into the incubator are 5-7 days. She relizes that pheasants are alot harder than chickens to hatch and I have passed all the info from you guys along to her. I'm gussing humidity has alot to do with it as she had fully developed chicks that never broke through. Some were partially developed and were put into the incubator the same time as the fully developed and the ones that did hatch.

[big ed]

HERE SOMETHING YOU MIGHT TRY THAT WORKS FOR US.TRY SPRAYING THEM WITH A LITTLE WARM WATER WHEN YOU SEE THEM STARTING TO MOVE INSIDE THE SHELL.ABOUT ONCE A HOUR OR SO .WE LEARNED THIS FROM A OLD BREEDER IN MY KIDS 4-H AND IT SEEMS TO WORK.NOT SURE WHY ,BUT WHEN THE COUNT IS DOWN WE GO BACK TO THIS AND IT UP THE BIRD COUNT.

[Birdguy]

Big Ed, the additional water on the eggs directly increases the humidity and basically lubricates the chicks shell and the chick making it easier for the chick to turn and finish pipping the shell to get out. It is almost always recommended to up the humidity for the last couple days of incubation. To much or to little humidity during incubation will often result in chicks with disabilities. Often crooked toes or crooked necks, or chicks that never make it out of the egg. 

[big ed]

YOUR RIGHT WE STARTED DOING THIS ABOUT 6 YEARS AGO .WITH ARE HATCHINGS  JUST THOUGHT I WOULD THROW IT OUT THERE FOR THOSE THAT DID'NT KNOW. EVERYONE HATCHING EGGS HAVE FUN AND GOOD LUCK.