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    Chick With Curled Toes

    Fabulous. I've just tried this on my peachick. But she has a really deformed ankle? as well, so it will take some time to get it right. i'll keep resetting it every few days until i can get it in the right position, it is so bad i can't quite get it into the right position with further...
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    Constructing Pen, have questions!

    I like Fowler Hencock idea of fish netting. We picked some up from a beach a couple of weeks ago. If you near a beach hey presto!! you will always find washed up netting by fishing ports. Its tough and weather resistant and longlasting. We used ours for football goals. Will bear that in...
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    what to feed peacocks???

    Hate to sound dumb, but what's scratch?? I'm from the uk and not heard of it, perhaps we call it something different here?
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    people from the uk anyone else?

    Welshpool, Powys, Wales
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    Feeding baby peachicks...

    I put marbles in their food, they like to go for shiny things and will peck at the food a lot better. Peachicks are very dependent, and even after several weeks i'm sticking my finger in the water and then the food to offer it them, otherwise they wouldn't eat enough.
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    Peachick Care

    Not sure I can help, but would have thought 18% - presuming its 18% protein seems a little low to me, i using give chicks a higher protein level in the form of pheasant feed which is about 29%. I don't generally give any special medication in their food or water and have a good success rate of...
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    what to feed peacocks???

    Mine love sunflower seeds. They have cat food or dog food depending on whats on offer at the supermarket, and pheasant pellets which has a slightly higher protein than chicken food. We also feed them all sorts of scraps from the kitchen, they love fruit cake, waffles and tinned spagetti...
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    Can you make a hen go broody?

    I'm desperate to get my peacocks to go broody, never had success todate. Any tips greatfully received. I've put two nest boxes in today with straw in one, hay in another, on the floor and three eggs in each. Not sure what else I can do really. Never had a problem with chickens going...
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    First time hatching question

    Probably a bit late to offer advice, but here goes, we've always raised our peachicks by hand which is time consuming. We have used broody chickens which is slightly better than by hand but then the peacocks think they are chickens and have flirted with our lady hens. Its far better to let...
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