medawinks, my peafowl are too young yet to be losing any feathers, but I agree with Josie to check
eBay, they usually have a lot of those kinds of things on there. Any more that is just the first place I check if I'm looking for something because there isn't much you don't find there. You just have to know prices before you go to know if you're getting a good deal, but that's pretty much the same with anywhere.
My DH just left for Wichita & I stayed behind to rest, I had a pretty rough night last night with the head cold. I had to prop myself up on pillows to be able to breathe. I managed to go out & get my birds fed, but I need to give them all fresh water & am hoping maybe I can talk my DH into doing that for me later when he gets back. It's been raining off & on all night & morning here & it's a muddy mess. I guess we're going to make up for no rain this summer all at once. I hate that my birds in the grow-out pen are having to stand in a soggy, muddy mess but there isn't anything I can do about it right now. At least they have a roost & dog house to get up on & in to get out of it. The turkeys have a fairly dry pen in the back half & they also have their roost to get up on. We have a small storm coming through right now & my chickens all ran for the coop, they don't like to be out when it's raining hard. If it's only sprinkling they don't mind it, but hard rain they want to get in out of. My DH went out to put the cooler in the trunk before he left since he is getting frozen stuff & meat at Sam's & saw the two little guineas going into a feed sack I had sitting in the garage. He knew I had been trying to catch them & said one fell into the sack & the other fell into the water so he grabbed the one that fell in the water first & then got the one that fell into the feed sack. I guess they were going to help themselves to the feed. That explains why they weren't starving, geez. I'm so glad he caught them though & now they're out in the pen with all of the rest of the goofy birds, minus the one the dog ate. Sunflowerparrot let all of hers out to free-range totally & they're getting big, but she has some that are slightly older than the ones we got together & I now have 3 ages of them in my pen. I do plan eventually after I get the dogs trained to leave them alone, at least I hope I can train them, to let the oldest ones out to stay out unless they want to come back into the coop. They're all pretty happy in the hoop coop with the peacocks, they seem to get along just fine.
tweety, keep after that possum or possums, they will come back when they know you have birds to eat. I no longer see them here with my GPs here now. I used to see them all the time at night right up by my house & garage. I just hate those critters, they have long teeth & they hiss at you besides the fact that they ate 7 guineas in one night last year. That was the deciding factor for us to get the GPs after a raccoon attack & then the possum attack I had just had it with the predators. My neighbors had fox & coyotes eating their chickens all the time until they finally got a little coop for the last 5 chickens they had left & shut them up at night. I haven't asked them if my dogs are over there at night too, but I imagine they do watch over their place too.
