Ailing wee Pea

[Garden Peas]

Well, my about-to-be 3 year-old pe'linquent is probably getting the biggest load of testosterone he has yet experienced... I agree, that is most likely what is making him stupid and problematic

I wish there were an injection to fix that!

 

[thndrdancr]

Petey is not the nicest bird with the ladies but I guess with 6 six hens to chase all over free ranging for the most part, it cools his jets a bit. They just hop over the fence and he chases round and round the house. Makes me dizzy!

 

[zazouse]

Petey is not the nicest bird with the ladies but I guess with 6 six hens to chase all over free ranging for the most part, it cools his jets a bit. They just hop over the fence and he chases round and round the house. Makes me dizzy!

Sounds like you need another male for him to spar with none of my males chase my hens and i have a lot of them. they do chase each other though it is the beginning of mating rituals here the chase and random calling is the first step

Guinea cocks do the same thing and the bachelors spend all summer chasing each other, looks like a freight train gone wild around here them darn fools can run for hours.

 

[Garden Peas]

Sounds like you need another male for him to spar with none of my males chase my hens and i have a lot of them. they do chase each other  though it is the beginning of mating rituals here the chase and random calling is the first step   
Guinea cocks do the same thing and the bachelors spend all summer chasing each other, looks like a freight train gone wild around here them darn fools can run for hours.

Sigh. Meathead here doesn't really try to spar with the two big males... there's a little chasing each other in the late afternoon, but that's it. He's just relentlessly following the wee peas most of the day and hassling them

 

[thndrdancr]

Well I bought the white one last summer, but they have made fast friends. It will be interesting to see if he gets upset come spring. It was funny, on our acreage in NE nobody ever sparred, they just divided up territory. I had 7 or 8 peacocks at that time.

 

[Garden Peas]

Follow up vet visit again... we have a little regression in the healing of the cornea, so have to go back to using the opthalmic ointment for another couple of weeks. But she definitely has sight in the eye. There will always be some scarring.

I managed to get a good (approximately) weight on her this evening... she is up to 1630 grams or so. That's an increase of almost 250 grams in the last two weeks, or about half a pound. She's visibly taller in the crate, and is definitely putting on some mass in her legs and feet, as well as the body. Of course, she has nothing to do all day except eat and drink and lie around not expending energy

If this keeps up, she will soon need a larger travel crate...

 

[casportpony]

That's a good gain!

-Kathy

 

[Garden Peas]

That's a good gain!

-Kathy

Thanks, Kathy! I was pretty excited to see it