2020 Peafowl Chat Thread

[casportpony]

Hi everyone!

What are your plans for this year?

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I have a Black Shoulder Peacock and Peahen for breeding this year, like last.
I have 3 yearling Whites (unsure of gender still ) and 4 yearling India Blue Pied females, and 2 yearling India Blue Pied males. So of course my plans are to wait until next year for all of them to breed. Oh and to keep them all alive...
What plans do you have?

 

[old biddy]

I am enlarging my pen for my 6 peafowl. It will add about 1600 square feet to the existing pen and will have a small bamboo grove in the middle of it so that will be nice for the birds. My breeding pair of India Blues are about 5 yrs old (Anastasia - peahen) and 6 yrs old (Rainbow - peacock). The other 4 were hatched over the past two years...1 peacock (Wolfgang - will be 2 years old in May), 1 black shoulder peahen (Bella - 19 months old), 1 India Blue peahen (Hannah - 19 months old), and another India Blue peahen (Ninja...also known as "Brat" - 7 months old). Since they are all related I am thinking of selling Wolfgang, the India Blue peacock, and buying another male to mix the blood line - or swap if anyone lives in Florida and is interested in doing that. Hoping to hatch out some new peachicks this year!

 

[Kessel23]

I only have one male left after the winter. The hen stopped eating and I'm not sure what was wrong with her. I dewormed her and treated for coccidiosis and a respiratory infection over the course of 2 weeks that I had her inside and was tube feeding her 3x a day. She slowly kept losing weight and on her last day her poop looked exactly like the formula I was tube feeding her so she was not taking anything out of it at all. Maybe someone who sees this will be able to tell me what went wrong for her. I didn't just throw all of this in at once though I dewormed her first and saw no improvement and then I treated her for coccidiosis and nothing and then a few days later treated her for respiratory illness and again it did nothing.

My male is 2 years old now and starting to call like nuts, sounds really nice compared to all the roosters. I'm having a friend look out for hens at a swap meet next week so I can get him something to mate with lol. This was my first pair of peafowl.

 

[old biddy]

I only have one male left after the winter. The hen stopped eating and I'm not sure what was wrong with her. I dewormed her and treated for coccidiosis and a respiratory infection over the course of 2 weeks that I had her inside and was tube feeding her 3x a day. She slowly kept losing weight and on her last day her poop looked exactly like the formula I was tube feeding her so she was not taking anything out of it at all. Maybe someone who sees this will be able to tell me what went wrong for her. I didn't just throw all of this in at once though I dewormed her first and saw no improvement and then I treated her for coccidiosis and nothing and then a few days later treated her for respiratory illness and again it did nothing.

My male is 2 years old now and starting to call like nuts, sounds really nice compared to all the roosters. I'm having a friend look out for hens at a swap meet next week so I can get him something to mate with lol. This was my first pair of peafowl.

I don't have enough knowledge to advise you on this but I am so sorry that you lost your peahen. I am interested to know what happened with her as well, if anyone has experience in this type of thing.

 

[casportpony]

I am very sorry for your loss. There are some strains of coccidiosis that are resistant to amprolium (Corid), and it's possible that she had more than one illness. If any of you don't have a vet I would suggest that you purchase the following items to keep in your first aid kit:

• Corid for coccidiosis
• Baycox for coccidiosis
• Baytril (enrofloxacin) for bacterial infections
• Metronidazole for blackhead and enteritis
• Safeguard liquid (fenbendazole) or Valbazen (albendazole) liquid for worms
• A scale to weigh them on

 

[KsKingBee]

We have a lot going on at Spring Creek Peafowl in Marion, Ks. With 23 breeding pens and seven grow out pens we have nearly 100 laying hens in 13 different colors and every pattern. We are expanding our hatchery with more stack brooders and adding a new brooder house for another eight brooders. We are adding another set of flight pens, two 25 x 100 foot runs with coops. We are also planning our first Farm Day on June 6th if you would like to come and tour our farm.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I'll share a couple pictures of my 9 yearlings.

 

[KsKingBee]

I am modifying our stack brooders, the bottom one is too low for this old guy and too hard to see if there are any problems within. I am still using the dolly with casters so we can roll them out and sweep under them and so we can get access to the back to adjust the heat. Instead of having four brooders per stack we will only have three per stack. All brooders have a four inch extender ring for more head height. We will be using five of these stacks this year along with our brooder houses for when they get too big for the stacks.

 

[Midnightman14]

I am raising several new colors this year and colony breeding some red goldens and lineolated kalij