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...
The snow collapsed our pigeon coops roof & a bunch flew away. Well one momma had 2 babies she left behind. They are about 10 days old. We have them in a beanie with toilet paper on the bottom & covering them. We have been feeding them every 2 hours. They each eat about 5 live mealworms & drink...
1 day! Yesterday we got 30! Im just learning but the people i live with have been doing this for years.
So what am I in for?
(I call them tiny little balls of feathered adorableness)
So we just got 30 baby chickys in the mail (another 190 coming in a couple weeks) and Im just so excited! They are tiny drops of feathered adorableness! Who I live with has tons of experience doing raising these guys but I have never even seen a baby chicky in real life before! Lol! My question...
I just relocated out here from Paradise. I am a Camp Fire Survivor.
((And thank you Chico for all you have done for us! I lived in the Walmart parking lot in Chico for 8 nights after the fire. Chico was great to help us in our time of need.))