This is my first peachick. We inherited a house which came with 3 peacocks and 1 peahen, all India Blues I think. Our peahen refused to lay all spring and summer but one day we found one of her eggs being incubated by a tiny hen, along with the eggs of quite a few different hens. We put the peahen egg in the incubator, because of the difference in hatch times, and when he finally hatched, we put him under another broody hen. He had a real problem with splayed legs for a few days and required some quite complex splinting. I didn't want him to be raised alone so couldn't put him in a brooder in one of those cardboard tubes or the hen would have rejected him when he got better. He coped admirably well and within 3 days went from unable to stand, to running around beautifully. Sadly the hen rejected him after 5 weeks (she's always a short-term mother) and he now wanders the garden 'wheeping' and sometimes wailing. He's so tame that when he gets cold he comes for cuddles. This is when he's a few days old. I'll see if I can find a picture of him now at about 7 weeks.
Looking good!
. (I'm quite proud of the success of my leg braces!!)
