@Waterfaery, thank you for all of your help! It makes sense to let the peacock out first.
I guess I will rethink the wing clipping then. I know my family doesn't want to do that to ruin their looks anyways lol.
My biggest issue with a net is that my guineas are idiots. We used to keep a net...
Today after years of wanting to I finally bought myself a peacock. His name is Apollo and he is a yearling india blue. We're planning on getting him 2-3 hens by the end of the week, because unfortunately I couldn't find anyone who could sell both genders.
Anyways, I'm trying to figure out how...
They are doing a lot better. When I examined them again, I realized that the poop that's accumulating is actually stuck on their navels. Everyone of the sick keets had poorly healed navels, probably from their disastrous mothers. I don't know where the watery eyes came from but that's all...
Let me just start by saying this has been a really difficult batch. My guineas decided to sit on their own eggs and instead of confiscating the eggs to my incubator like I usually do, I let the girls hatch out their own babies. Unfortunately, I was out of town when the keets hatched and though I...
I only have incubator and one thermometer (though that will change within a week I hope). I feed my ducks a mixture of layer feed and scratch grains, and then for half the day they are free ranged.
Just recently hatched my second batch of ducklings ever, and it was a complete failure. The first time I only incubated them for nine days as their mom died almost all the way through, so I was very unprepared for this.
I had about 30 eggs hatching, and only 14 pipped. They were also four days...