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sorry for posting early before I finished writing!! Dumb moment. 1.) I found my Americana hen dead this morning and I’m trying to find out cause of death. She was a 3 year old hen who had stopped laying, I think because we are having a extreme heat wave. Yesterday her behavior wasn’t out of the...

Very beautiful bird! Always loved Black Sumatra’s.

I learned a lot!

Thank you. :)

Thank you very much! That is what I thought too. :)

I posted last year when my peachick, Rashki, was younger, and I got mixed responses if I remember correctly one or two people said it was a Indian blue male and the other people said it looked like a Spaulding peahen. Just wondering what the verdict is now that he/she is a bit older! Because I...

Thank you!:D

This is my first peacock, I was wondering what gender he/she looks like to you guys? I was thinking male as he started displaying young, but I've read peahens display too so I'm not certain. He/She is exactly 51 days old today. I can take pictures of different angles/pictures if that is more...

She is a hen for sure :) She just started laying eggs

haha thank you. It sure is adorable. I am in love with the little guy.:love:) I feel so dumb right now, but at the same time, this feels like the exact kind of thing that would happen to me.:gig I don't even know the first thing about peacocks.

Yeah I don't even know at this point. I posted about this previously, my friend has some very nice chickens and she let me burrow a few eggs to put under my broody buff orpington hen. I grabbed some eggs out of her very tiny, very small little nesting box. I have literally no idea how their...

Thank you! That's what I'll do.

Hello, thank you for the help.I do have an old incubator I can put them.

Hello, thank you very much for the help. After they hatch in the incubator, can I place them back in with her? or will she not take care of them at that point?

How this all happened - my friend breeds some very nice chickens and I asked if I could have a few eggs to hatch out under my broody buff orpington (because I do not have a rooster). She said sure, just grab some from the nesting box. So, I went into the nesting box and couldn't find any eggs...