Peacockobsessed
Hatching
- May 13, 2021
- 6
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- 6
I just lost all six of my guinea fowl. It’s my first time with these birds but I live on a farm with other poultry. They seemed to be doing fine. We had them with three peacocks (one of which died as well). They were very energetic and you could hear them chirping all the time. We fed them a turkey starter. All was going well, but this morning, I woke up to my brooder full of dead chicks. I checked for external parasites, but I didn’t see anything. It was almost as if they flopped over. I’m reading that it may have been the pine shaving I’m keeping in the brooder so I’m switching to straw. I got these chicks from a new breeder who didn’t allow us into the place where they were being kept so I do wonder about that. I’m worried about my leftover peacocks and want to get more guineas. They’ve had some watery poop so I wonder if it’s coccidiosis because I know that can kill quickly. Though as far as I understand it can’t be passed between species. Help please!