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We recently bought two three month old peahens to replace ones lost to foxes over the last couple of years. They are extremely flighty and during an attempt to catch one of them to put her in a coop at night, my husband thinks her wing got a bit caught or moved awkwardly. Today the bottom few...

We have lots of chickens, pigeons and several peafowl freeranging on our land (wild woods and meadows) and they all choose to hang out together during the day but sleep separately at night. It's a bit wild and woolly round our way so we sustain plenty of losses to predators and disease but try...

Hi all, I'm asking advice from you Turkey folks because I think you collectively have a lot of experience of Blackhead so I'm maximising my expertise pool! What I actually have is a sick peacock. I live in France, so a lot of advice on medications etc aren't available, which is why I'm asking...

Hi all, I live in France and I have a peacock very sick with blackhead. We took him to the vet on Tuesday after he had symptoms for around 1 week (we are inexperienced due to inheriting peafowl from previous house-owners and didn't realise what the droopiness meant until we saw his droppings...

We recently had an attack by a stone marten (like a pine marten) that killed a huge amount of our chickens. I'm now worried about our quails, who live nearby. They have a lovely, solid, wooden hut to go into at night but seem to love sleeping outdoors in their pen. Stone Martens will be able to...

Dear Peafowl-lovers, Please can you help me? We inherited 3 peacocks and 1 peahen (not ideal, I realise) from the previous owners of the house we just bought in rural France. We've had no real problems with any of them (except for the peahen not laying or sitting) but the largest of the...

We hatched 7 Cream Legbar cockerels in May and they have been doing really well and are already integrated with the rest of the flock (a gaggle of some 15 mongrel hens and cockerels we inherited from previous owners of our house). Out of the four male Lebars, one is very large, two medium, and...

Hi all - we bought a house in France earlier this year and inherited a pigeon house with a few pigeons in it. The previous owners told us they are 'Texan' pigeons. I'm guessing they mean the Texan pioneer pigeons. But the only info I can find online shows pigeons of similar but not exactly the...

We recently moved into a big old house and it came with a pigeon house. We've learned rather quickly about how to manage pigeons and have made a lot of improvements to the house but we still often get young pigeons kicked out of the nest and attacked by single males. So far we've taken in two of...

Hi all - I need a bit of advice about chickens raising peachicks... Our peahen is a bit wayward and shows very little interest in either laying or incubating her own eggs. However occasionally we find eggs around the garden. Recently one of our tiny escape artist hens was found in the garden...

Hello all, We live on a small island in the caribbean and over recent weeks have raised several chicks we rescued. Some died, victims of rats (and one a hot water bottle), but some have survived. It's quite hard work because we have no resources at all, so we have to build everything from...