4 India Blue 1 year old Peafowl: 2 males 2 females. Extremely friendly, we are so attached to them, watched them hatch from mom and she did a beautiful job raising them. They are mostly wild, sleep 30' feet up a tree. We just feed them breakfast and dinner and sometimes an occasional treat...
hello, we have peahens setting and don't want more peafowl, trying to keep the population down. someone we know wants to have the eggs to incubate and hatch. wondering if it is too late to transport the eggs, we are thinking the hen has been setting for around 2 weeks, so are they too developed...
Peachicks are 2 weeks old, and we are keeping mom and chicks penned for safety. We let them out (supervised) for short outings into the bigger pen. Meanwhile curious, is it safe for the male to hang out with mom and chicks? he is lonely and curious, but respectively stays away and gives her...
my first experience with this so i'm kinda excited
trying to keep mom and her babies warm and dry...after a month of hot days, i'm not welcoming the rain these days. it looks like mom has it covered though. any suggestions are welcomed.
i finally decided to get our girl off her "dud" eggs but she would not move, so i reached under her to find a cracked empty eggshell ...and i hear peeping! she didn't leave her nest at all yesterday, and she hasn't been off yet today (she usually gets off at least once a day for about 10...
Please can someone tell me if a Peahen will eventually leave her nest of eggs after the 30 day gestation time is overdue. I cannot find anything on the internet. She has been sitting on fertile eggs but not sure if her are chicks alive. Would greatly appreciate some feedback/advice. She is...
Please can someone tell me if a Peahen will eventually leave her nest of eggs after the 30 day gestation time is overdue. I cannot find anything on the internet. She has been sitting on fertile eggs but not sure if her are chicks alive. Would greatly appreciate some feedback/advice. She is...
My peahen was found setting on 6 eggs not in a completely protected area (no roof inside the coup and we have foxes and other predators that could find a way in). She made her nest inside of a rosemary bed. Within the first few days that we found her eggs (she came out for food) we moved her...
We purchased 3 Peafowl from someone that handled them by picking them up by their legs and holding them upside down and pretty much tossed them into our car. It was horrible and we still think back on how cruel that was. We don't even know if the one female was already limping before or if...