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I tried this awhile ago and it went crazy for 20 minutes and posted a blank????? We have always brooded chicks in the old standard way using the cramped and crowded metal box/cage. We would hatch them out and then transfer them. After a couple of weeks we would transfer them to a bigger pen and...

We have always brooded chicks in the old standard way using the cramped and crowded metal box/cage. We would hatch them out and then transfer them. After a couple of weeks we would transfer them to a bigger pen and when they were a couple of months old they went to the barn. It wasn't the...

Okay now from the Merck Veterinary Manual (I give the link so you can read it yourself) is the actual facts about Coryza. Infectious Coryza: Introduction Etiology Epidemiology and Transmission Clinical Findings Lesions Diagnosis Control and Treatment Infectious coryza is an acute respiratory...

My peacocks are afraid of snakes. Ringneck pheasants however are great snakers and they eat them!!

You won't find anything (from a reliable source) about pheasants having a problem with chickens or chicken droppings. Peacocks and turkeys are the ones who can't cohabit with chickens or where chickens have lived until they are at least four months old. Even then it's not a good idea for...

Breaking news. Found two peacock nests today in one of the old Pheasant boxes. There were four boxes to choose from (all in a row)but both nests are in one box... great choice good cover.

Good keepers always say something like that. It is to protect the peacocks. The odds are you are never going to get smacked by a peacock unles you have them cornered and even then they would rather try to slip past you. Of course if a little kid gets one cornered the peacock knows it's big...

All animals protect their territory. When the birds are penned that is their territory and their actions are not aggressive. You are the aggressor. They are the protector. Defensive is the exact opposite of aggressive.

Ah the myth of the agressive peacock. Peacocks are DEFENSIVE not OFFENSIVE. They protect. They don't attack. That's a myth spread by the media and continued on. Most people just don't realize that their supposed friendly gestures and their "cute" kids are neither friendly or cute. They let...

Face it PEEP is your child. When you have ONE that is like that you are stuck. Let him run while you are there and pen him up when you are gone. We have had the single hand-raised too and they just can't deal with the 'aloneness' they aren't a peacock. They are a people. They get lonely...

They only way you can really tell if they are skinny is to feel their breastbone. First you have to know how a normal breastbone feels. It needs to be meaty and muscled. Feathers make the birds seem robust but if the breastbone is sharp and the muscles on each side are sparse then the bird is...

They are our favorite animals (besides our parrot). When you hatch them and then raise them in the house interacting with them everyday they become just like puppys. We call them feathered Monkey-puppies because they act like puppies and they are as mischevious as monkeys. We have a hard time...

I have housed pheasants, chickens and rabbits together. I housed my ducks separately. I never had a problem of disease or any kind of bullying even though I had two REALLY big roosters. I had golden pheasants, lady Amherst, ringneck and a constantly varying amount of rabbits. I had this set-up...