We just discovered an adult male peacock outside of our back door. We think it may be Larry our oldest peacock. We have 40 plus hand-fed friendly peacock and pea hens. He doesn't appear hurt Nor frightened. And he's eating. We don't know what to do because we have Bear Mountain Lion bobcats and...
So we hatched a duck in our incubator. As he was hatching we noticed he was upside down & actually thought he was a turtle at 1st. Well, "Turtle" has something wrong with its legs. Its getting worse. Before he used to walk & swim in circles. Now he is stepping on his own feet & cannot walk well...
Our group of free roaming youngster peafowl has roamed off the property. They traveled half a mile down our driveway & they have been seen across a busy road. These youngsters have never strayed before. Its 2 boys & 3 girls. Its mating season here and we have 40+ peafowl.
We usually feed them...
Soon we will have baby birds of all sorts around our property. Peafowl, ducks, chickens ect. And with that comes the flying predators like Hawks. We want to get some kind of netting or covering these babies can seek shelter under & we can provide some protection. Does anyone have any suggestions...
Thank you all! I got them some heat now & stopped the mealworms. We ground up some chicken feed mix & added room temp water,let it sit & stirred it before feeding it to them. The little guy has his eyes open now & was making noise too. Looks like he will be ok....hopefully. BUT if there are any...