I was driving into town and passed what appeared to be a huddled up a fence, crouched over young turkey. I passed it and it didn't even move so in all of 2 seconds I decided to go back and see if it was hit and injured. So I turned around pulled up to it, all the while it didn't budge a bit. I walked up to it and simply picked it up. It was a peahen. At least I think it's a girl. I had a dog carrier in my truck (habit) and placed it in there. It didn't have any blood on it that I could tell. I went to all of the very few houses around the area and a few said it had been there since Sunday and that they thought it was "just a turkey". I just couldn't believe that these people saw her out there since Sunday and did nothing! If I saw an animal hunkered over and not moving I darn sure would have been out there long before 3 days! So with noone claiming it, I brought it home.
So now I have her in a nice, clean isolation pen with gamebird feed and water. Upon closer inspection, her toes and I guess what would be her ankles? on both feet are all torn up. She looks as if she was either rolled by a vehicle or simply just thrown out of a vehicle. Her wounds aren't extensive that I can tell, but she is favoring her right foot, which appears to be the worse off of the two. But it appears that NOTHING is broken-she does stand on her feet. She's not scared of me at all (maybe because she's in shock) but I can pet her and she seems interested in the food, however she's much more interested in sleeping. I have her in a 2.5x4x3 high isolation pen. Do you think that will be sufficient for a few days? I'm thinking the more isolated that she is, the less apt she'll be to spaz out and just let her body recover.
Any suggestions as to what to give her i.e. vitamins, scrambled egg, etc? Hubby and I have only talked about having peafowl but I never did too much research on it. Any suggestions for helping her along to a speedier recovery will be greatly appreciated. O'well, any suggestions are greatly appreciated! Here she/it is...
So now I have her in a nice, clean isolation pen with gamebird feed and water. Upon closer inspection, her toes and I guess what would be her ankles? on both feet are all torn up. She looks as if she was either rolled by a vehicle or simply just thrown out of a vehicle. Her wounds aren't extensive that I can tell, but she is favoring her right foot, which appears to be the worse off of the two. But it appears that NOTHING is broken-she does stand on her feet. She's not scared of me at all (maybe because she's in shock) but I can pet her and she seems interested in the food, however she's much more interested in sleeping. I have her in a 2.5x4x3 high isolation pen. Do you think that will be sufficient for a few days? I'm thinking the more isolated that she is, the less apt she'll be to spaz out and just let her body recover.
Any suggestions as to what to give her i.e. vitamins, scrambled egg, etc? Hubby and I have only talked about having peafowl but I never did too much research on it. Any suggestions for helping her along to a speedier recovery will be greatly appreciated. O'well, any suggestions are greatly appreciated! Here she/it is...
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