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  1. MontserratChick

    Emu predators and shelter flooring

    Hello all! New emu owner here. We hatched 4 in May and we live in France. They are currently sheltered in a barn at night and have free range in our 150acre property during the day. They’re very, very tame and want to be with us at all times. We’re planning to fence the core of our property...
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    Broken peahen wing?

    We spoke to the vet without taking the peahen and she said if it was broken we'd need to go for an x-ray in another city a long way away, but she thought it didn't sound too serious and we were doing the right thing with the arnica. Yesterday I noticed she was holding it much more normally, so...
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    Review by '' on item 'Norfolk Grey'

    When picking our NG eggs up from the breeder, she entered the pen with a pitchfork to protect herself. Ominous start! We hand-raised half & put the rest under a hen. The hand-raised ones became quite aggressive but we handled them & they stopped trying to rip our skin off & became jolly...
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    Completely falling in love with turkeys...

    Completely falling in love with turkeys...
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    Broken peahen wing?

    Hi all - sorry for the delayed reply and thank you for your replies! It has been a hectic week and I've not had a chance to come back on here, but I've been keeping an eye on her. The problem is that they're both young and new to us so they're very nervous and I've not wanted to stress her out...
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    Letting peacocks roam free

    Woooooah - 500?! I'm guessing you do this for a living!
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    Letting peacocks roam free

    We inherited peafowl from the previous owners of our house and they have always been free range. They have occasionally wandered away to visit a neighbour if we're not home for a few days, but we put a mirror up and that seems to have kept them here. I cannot imagine cooping them up - they love...
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    Broken peahen wing?

    We recently bought two three month old peahens to replace ones lost to foxes over the last couple of years. They are extremely flighty and during an attempt to catch one of them to put her in a coop at night, my husband thinks her wing got a bit caught or moved awkwardly. Today the bottom few...
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    To quarantine or not to quarantine...

    We have lots of chickens, pigeons and several peafowl freeranging on our land (wild woods and meadows) and they all choose to hang out together during the day but sleep separately at night. It's a bit wild and woolly round our way so we sustain plenty of losses to predators and disease but try...
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    Help! Unknown peacock malaise despite de-worming and coccidiosis treatment

    Very sad to report that our peacock just died. We simply caught him too late in the illness I think. We will learn for next time, but we are very sad as we were particularly fond of this one. Thank you all for your help.
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    Alternative treatments for Blackhead in Peafowl

    Sadly just as I had posted that last message I heard a thud upstairs and rushed up to find him collapsed. He died a few minutes later. So sad.
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    Alternative treatments for Blackhead in Peafowl

    Basically I took a large jar - capable of holding about 24 fluid oz and loosely packed it with nettles, dandelion root and leaves, oregano leaves and rosemary leaves - all direct from the garden. Then I added 3 garlic cloves, one large dried chilli pepper (not sure what they're called but...
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    Alternative treatments for Blackhead in Peafowl

    Thanks for this - very informative. We actually consulted our herbalist neighbour yesterday and she suggested some things in addition to those I'd also researched online. Alternating with his 'regular' medicine I'm giving him an infusion strained from a mixture of of garlic, cayenne pepper...
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    Alternative treatments for Blackhead in Peafowl

    We live in very deep, rural France. Another vet would be a 90 minute drive away (which I think would finish the peacock off as he's not tame), and most likely not have the other meds anyway, since several of them are forbidden. In fact the current vet was breaking the rules by giving us the...
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    Blackhead advice

    @casportpony has been holding my hand all the way through it - she's amazing. She has taught me to tube feed him and made me bring him indoors, which I believe have helped him so much. But we don't have all of the meds she recommends so I was just putting it out there in case there are some...
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    65 day old BR sex?

    I'm so encouraged by your posts - thank you! I have a peacock with blackhead and am desperately trying to get him better. We're in France and don't have the same meds available as most people recommend here so while he's getting some ronidazole and a strange dog antibiotic, I've been trying to...
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    Blackhead advice

    Nope - vet doesn't have it. But she does say that ronidazole is more effective for the same disease.
  18. MontserratChick

    Blackhead advice

    Hi Tony, Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately this is not the case in France. The blackhead medication has been banned in all feed as it must not enter the food chain. Nor do I have access to the other medications you mention. That's the desperation of my post - I need help working with what...
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    Blackhead advice

    Hi all, I'm asking advice from you Turkey folks because I think you collectively have a lot of experience of Blackhead so I'm maximising my expertise pool! What I actually have is a sick peacock. I live in France, so a lot of advice on medications etc aren't available, which is why I'm asking...
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    Alternative treatments for Blackhead in Peafowl

    Hi all, I live in France and I have a peacock very sick with blackhead. We took him to the vet on Tuesday after he had symptoms for around 1 week (we are inexperienced due to inheriting peafowl from previous house-owners and didn't realise what the droopiness meant until we saw his droppings...
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