Broody hen on peacock eggs - Update on peacock eggs

[kaylakala]

I'm sorry for your loss.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Oh, there's that snake you told me about! It's a big one.
Sorry you lost the broody hen. I hope you catch what killed her.

Good luck with the pea eggs

Lisa

 

[Cheekon]

So sorry to hear about the loss of your EE. :aww I hope those peacock eggs hatch though!

 

[ruth]

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Still trying to figure that out. Same thing happened last night in middle of night. Lucy starts tearing the doors apart to get in. After an hour of listening to her act as if someone was killing her, and afraid she would break the old glass door, I got up and let her in. It was sprinkling, same as night before, and she freaks out in rain. Though it was really late Rex and I took a walk through the hen house to check on everyone - everthing was a.o.k.

Next morning find all the broken eggs in barn. Only thing I can figure is they act in pairs or more and while he's chasing one off through the woods another gets the hen/eggs? Or, he's sleeping on the job and doesn't hear/smell the coon in the barn. It is a ways from the house but he's always been able to smell anything before it gets anywere near the house.

We're actually wondering why Lucy is acting like a crazed animal two nights in a row. We chalked it off as it was raining but I'm starting to think she "sees dead people". I know she's not afraid of coons - used to watch her tree them at old home before we got chicks and literally had to pick her up and drag her in house because she was going up that tree and wasn't leaving.

Just don't know - yet another mystery but one that has me worried. I've always been sure that Rex would be able to patrol all perimeters.

It was odd tonight though. We got home later than we planned and it had already gotten dark. My poor hens were huddled down in my garage since they couldn't get in their coop. Rex had been locked inside gates and on other side of garage swinging door. We could not get in door because he had apparently been pushing on it so hard he had it wedged in the opposite direction. He was going crazy on the other side and when we finally got another door/gate open he took off like a lunatic barking and growling at something from the direction of the barn - SO maybe he's just trying to keep his job and redeem himself but something was out there and he had been going nuts. I have two broken doors.

 

[silkieluvr]

Aww, I'm so sorry about your hen, but good luck with the peacock eggs! I really hope they make it

 

[chickiepoo]

Ditto on the condolences on the hen. I am the same way about mine free ranging.
I did get my first broody of this season to get in a card board box. (I put it right in front of her with wooden eggs in it) I moved her after dark into the feed room where she can't get out. So far so good. Going on second week.
But how are the peafowl eggs? If there is another thread on the peafowl eggs I've missed it.
Please keep us posted.

 

[ruth]

Here's an update on the eggs after candling tonight. Of the 6 eggs -2 were not fertile, 1 looks like it might have been fertile but then stopped developing really early (it had a tiny hole in the shell that didn't go all the way through and I tried super glueing a piece of eggshell on it), 2 look really iffy (there are veins but looks like black blobs stuck to shell not moving or floating around - kind of look like they exploded in there and there are lots of dark red veins that look like it bled out - don't really know how to describe it);

BUT.....1 is moving around and very much alive. Yeah!!!!

I'm leaving them all in bator for awhile especially the two that are iffy because they don't look normal but I'll give them time.

I don't know if the one that is alive is one that was under Ms. Broody or not - I didn't mark which ones I gave her but I do know one of the two I gave her was the one with the hole.

 

[thornwing]

Hi, I raise peacocks since I live around Arcadia, CA and chicks always lose their mothers. I found two pied chicks and put them with my banty hen who had 1 chick of her own, and loves raising chicks. While on vacation, one peachick died, petsitter told me. The weaker one who was hurt before. I expected it almost. But the strong healthy one was found torn apart...broody hen found with blood on her beak. Not sure if she killed him or not, but if you got a bantam hen hatching these peafowl, they get freaked out at their size and treat them as if they where older, when they aren't, they are fragile still. If you got a standard chicken, you shouldn't have any problems. :] Hope this helped a lil'.

 

[littlepeep98]

Hello Everyone, I am new to BYC I just read Ruth's story all 5 pages of it!! Any how Ruth you had such a wonderful hen I'm really sorry for your loss. I have never had a broody hen, I have eight chickens in total one young peacock not fully matured yet. I bought 2 full grown pea hens with 3 babies but I made the BIG mistake of letting them out of coop because i felt sorry for them (everyone else is free range) they did not last more than 30 minutes in my yard before they flew the coop as they call it. I am devastated but it was my fault WHAT WAS I THINKING. I am going to name one of my hens Ruth so when I call her I will remember you n your wonderful hen Ms. Broody. I hope this doesn't offend you naming an animal after a human I don't mean to be offensive in any way. Do you sell peacock eggs? I think it would be really neat to incubate n raise them or put under a hen if I ever do have one broody. By the way Beefy How do u raise a flamingo? that's so cool

 

[littlepeep98]

Hello Everyone, I am new to BYC I just read Ruth's story all 5 pages of it!! Any how Ruth you had such a wonderful hen I'm really sorry for your loss. I have never had a broody hen, I have eight chickens in total one young peacock not fully matured yet. I bought 2 full grown pea hens with 3 babies but I made the BIG mistake of letting them out of coop because i felt sorry for them (everyone else is free range) they did not last more than 30 minutes in my yard before they flew the coop as they call it. I am devastated but it was my fault WHAT WAS I THINKING. I am going to name one of my hens Ruth so when I call her I will remember you n your wonderful hen Ms. Broody. I hope this doesn't offend you naming an animal after a human I don't mean to be offensive in any way. Do you sell peacock eggs? I think it would be really neat to incubate n raise them or put under a hen if I ever do have one broody. By the way Beefy How do u raise a flamingo? that's so cool