Recent content by Trimini

Hello. I live in a rural part of Chile on a small farm by a river. I have a pet peacock named Kevin, whom I raised from a peep, upgrading his enclosures as he grew. He is now two and a half years old and he lives in a spacious aviary with a built-in hen house on one end and a secret grass garden...

Hahaha. Ok. I will keep observing him. Thank you.

Hello. I live in rural Chile. It is spring here now. Mating season is just starting for all birds. I have a huge aviary for chickens, peacocks, and a separate space for canaries. I am new to canaries. I was gifted two girls (white) who are each two years old and are super happy and friendly...

Thank you very much. This is very encouraging. The boy has not started singing yet. Only little chirps, but I do see him with one female in particular all the time.

Hello. I live in a rural part of Chile, though I am not Chilean. I have a large aviary that I built for my pet peacock two years go. Since then my aviary has expanded, I acquired a few more birds, including a girl pea and some lovely chickens. Last week I was gifted a pair of canaries, both...

Interesting. You are right. Even if a snake got in, it would have to go out shaped like the chick. :D So, effectively I am looking for a hole that would fit the peep, alive or inside the snake. I think you may be correct that he somehow slithered out somewhere, being small and all. I have a man...

Thank you. I just checked everything again. There is 100% no peep or remains of a peep anywhere. The little building inside is not elevated. The walls are built up from ground up and the floor is reinforced with chicken wire buried 6 inches deep against digging intruders. The only places where...

I did all that. I know every crack and spot in that aviary, and I checked them all. He is not a tiny peep anymore. Not so tiny to get stuck in places. But I checked everywhere! Beside, he would have been screaming.

I am not sure if "Managing your flock" is the right place for a mysterious case of the disappeared peep, but here I am. I live in central Chile on a small farmland at the junction of two wild rivers in a valley. My husband and I have a 750 square-foot walk-in aviary that we designed and built...

He did not sprain anything! He got his butt kicked by a chicken. Rightly so too. What a butthead. Walking fine today. Not a boring day with this one. Thank you everyone for information of injured feet though. We learned a lot.

Thank you. He is a my baby boy. Raised from an itty bitty one month old peep.

I doubt that anything spooked him. He is not the easily spooked kind, but he is a bit a butthead and might have attempted something new and exciting. I was out of the aviary for no more than two hours. I didn't hear anything unusual. He didn't sound an alarm, nor did he fight with anyone. I...

Peahens usually collect up to 6 eggs when they are ready to brood. They will gather all eggs in one safe place and begin siting on them. Has she began brooding yet? Keep us posted.

He lifts this foot, kind of like a horse does to let you see its hoof. I was able to visually inspect it from underneath and I saw nothing. Maybe it's worth wrangling him and actually feeling the foot with my fingers. I just didn't want to distress him any more than he might already be. Despite...

Wow. A whole month!!!! Ok. I will be patient and keep an eye on him. He doesn't get his wings clipped anymore, so he usually flies down beautifully and lands nicely, but who knows what might have happened. I am not always around to see. :( He could have twisted it somehow.