Finally got peachicks!!

[Paganbird]

I just got home from my trip to pick up my 2 new chicks. I chose 2 blackshoulder chicks that were 2 weeks old. I also got 2 hatching eggs... just put them in the 'bator!
I think these 2 are probably going to be blue blackshoulder... There weren't any chicks with the lighter flight feathers, so I'm guessing they were all blue blackshouldered. His blackshoulder peacock is beautiful, though. I'm looking forward to these chicks getting color like that!
I'm hoping for a male and a female, of course, so I've named them already. If I have to change the names in a few months, oh well!
Here's Osiris:

And Isis:

And here's the question of the day...
When will they stop crying & start to eat and drink?

 

[monarc23]

awh congrats!!! I'm getting my first peacock on saturday!!!! Not sure how old he is but the owner wants him rehomed

YAY!!!!

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

When will they stop crying & start to eat and drink?

Only when they are good and ready.

Nice chickies you have there.

Steve in NC​

 

[Paganbird]

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Only when they are good and ready.

Nice chickies you have there.

Steve in NC

LOL!
Yeah, they seem to be calming down, slowly but surely.
The 2 eggs I got are from his white pen. I now have 9 pea eggs in the incubator! I should get another chick or two... I hope!

 

[lovemychicks2much]

my mother has peafoul and as far as i remember they arent like chicks and so forth they have to be taught to eat and drink and so on that is why it is so hard to hatch them out yourself and yours dont look very old so please keep a close eye on them and if they dont start eating and drinking you need to get them with some chickens or something that can teach them how to do it

 

[Paganbird]

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These chicks are 2 weeks old. They came from a large group in the same brooder... about 7 or 8 chicks. They had been doing fine there. I showed them the food & dipped their beaks in the water... they're just a bit preoccupied right now.
I think my biggest problem is that they can hear the silkie chicks in the next brooder. They keep going over to that side and calling, calling, calling. There are only two of them, but it sounds like my house is full of cooing doves!

 

[Pavo Royale]

So far, my three chicks are very quiet (almost too quiet) compared to other species. But, they have never been part of a larger flock, either.

 

[the Old Rebel]

I have a week-old baby, so I'm on the learning curve too. Mine "lost calls" almost all the time when I'm not with him. (He's on my shoulder as I'm typing this).

I did have to teach mine how to eat. Even though he knows how now, he still likes for me to wet my thumb and forefinger and dip it in the gamebird chick starter. Then I put them together like a beak. He runs over and eats out of the "beak" like he would do with his mother. Works for us.

I've found that baby peacocks are a whole different ballgame from chickens. But it has been FUN!!

Good luck with yours.

Hope you have a GREAT DAY!!
the Old Rebel

 

[snowshoe]

Hope you had a safe trip home, the chicks should calm down in a day or two strange new world for them. They hatched on July 4 so they are a little over two weeks old. Thanks again

 

[Paganbird]

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It was a looooong trip home! Road work... one-lane interstate traffic & torrential rain don't mix.
They're starting to relax a bit more. They're still calling, but they're wandering around the brooder while doing it... not huddled in a pile!
Thanks for getting in touch with me. I'm so glad I was able to get chicks from you! Wish me luck on the eggs. Your birds are beautiful. I really hope to hatch at least one.
Oh, yeah, and send me a picture of your pied chick. I'd love to see it.