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You don't have to do the leg binding that gradually. I tape mine at the appropriate width for a normal stance as soon as they are out of the incubator (or out from under mom) and the longest I've ever had one taped was a two days (and that was a REALLY bad one momma hatched). The longer you wait...

They probably won't die but I personally wouldn't house them all together, and if the fence is able to be jumped by chickens, there's a very good chance peafowl would just hop out and leave.

I have one indoors that does not have a brooder even. I set up a tray table with a cover, food and water, and a great lamp on the back of the couch. She sticks by me mostly, sitting on the back of the couch to watch out the window, where I set up an outdoor bird feeder for her to watch the wild...

Yeah, well, purple is a sex-linked gene, so you opal male could be carrying it. Lord knows I got the same sort of surprise this year when my all-blue pen started tossing cameos at me: But, you're probably correct in that that one, at least, is opal.

Does the IB split opal show something of the opal coloring as a baby? Because the pic looks too light to be a normal IB. Of course, it doesn't really look opal, either... Pyxis, any more recent photos in better lighting? edit: I put three pics together- first from the UPA site of an opal...

If they are brown and black, they are IB splits. If you share a photo, we can confirm, but you'd pretty much know if they were opal... they'd be silvery white/brownish. Photo of an opal chick on this page: http://www.unitedpeafowlassociation.org/OpalPeafowl.html

When they are Q8 mentioned putting them on lockdown one day earlier, which is probably a good idea. I'd also agree, keep your hatcher at the same temp as the incubator. I think someone on this thread (whoever was weighing their eggs, sorry I just woke up and can't remember) mentioned having...

Welp, someone's certainly comfortable sleeping on my shoulder...

So far (day 27), 6/7 that made it to lockdown have hatched and are doing well. I just had to help #6 out of the egg, as it had pipped over 24 hours ago and when I picked a little shell away to see, its wing and part of the neck was glued to the membrane with blood Looks like maybe it pipped...

Oooo fingers crossed! I'm in the land of limbo where 2 of my girls are 4 years old and the rest are 2 and under... but for sure I was getting eggs from 3 different hens. But whoever was laying from the younger hens was laying clears. Hoping you have better luck!!

Yeah and it's especially bad here, since Blu was the one making all the babies, and he's the one with the old leg injury, so he only uses one leg and already has a hard time balancing (clearly not too hard of a time that it keeps him from the ladies most of the time ). Between that and the girls...

Mine have all stopped laying too. I think they've been put off by all the thunderstorms.

Next hatch is in progress! This time I'd set 11 eggs but 3 of them were from a hen that was very young still, and ended up being clears. One quit early, leaving me with seven that made it to lockdown. First baby out was out a whole day before anyone else. Since no one else had even pipped yet...

Both of my dark pieds have just a couple white feathers, and both carry double white-eye gene as well (both from 100% silver pied parents) but with no indication that they are carrying (no white eyes on the boy, no frosting on either bird). If I were to look at them and judge by phenotype, I'd...

Yeah, after hearing the pen details I'd have to agree. The lighter color might also be due to having a copy of white-eye gene from the SP genes, that can happen sometimes. Here's what my last dark pied (out of silver pied) white eye baby looked like (the flash washed out the color a little...

I'd like to know what you think Blu is if not the definition of dark pied? My understanding of it is a pied birds that shows no white except possibly primaries and throat patch, but is genetically pied, not split pied. Which is exactly what Blu is. No matter what color morph you have, they're...

With silver pieds, you also have the possibility of "dark pied" birds. Where you have a bird who, genetically, is a silver pied but phenotypically looks like a blue split (white/pied) bird. My 5 year old boy, Blu, came from a 100% silver pied pen: He has no white eyes, no "white-eye"...

When I did it, I left it on for a day, then I took it off and checked it. It was looking good, so I reapplied and left for 1 more day just to be sure, and then took it off. But if it hadn't looked fixed, I'd have continued 1 day on, check, 1 day on, check, until it looked fixed. As for the...

the "knees" you're talking about are actually ankles :) As for what to do, it's either some kind of splay, which might be fixed/helped by adding a hobble so it can't move it's legs apart or up (since you said it's going over the wings, a hobble will prevent that). Lots of different materials...

Yikes, sorry you lost the one! We have used just a cardboard box + heat lamp and shavings for a brooder for years (a pretty big one, they can't really knock it over, but they could jump over the top if they were determined). There's no top or anything, we just clip one wing on the babies so...