Thanks y'all. I've been hand raising the little guy so far. I do however have him in with some baby chicks his age so he's not lonely. They were all brooded and hatched at the same time in my incubator. So they get along well. I do plan on separating them when the chickens can go in their own...
I'm new to raising peafowl, I recently hatched my first peachick. It's about 2-3 weeks old now. I'm pretty sure it's a male because when I play with him he fans his little tail feathers and shakes his wings. My questions are 1) is there a sure way to tell the gender of a peachick? Will female...
Thanks. It was shrink wrapped. I had to assist. It would not have made it out by itself. The membrane was so hard stuck on it felt like glass. I just used a bit of coconut oil to gently loosen it up and chipped the shell away. It's fine and dandy now.
I know better then to try and help a chick hatch, but this one chick has cracked the shell most of the way around and seems to be stuck. It's like he can't push out. He's been at it for two and a half days. I'm really worried that the membrane is dried to him. Almost all of the other chicks have...