Getting my first peachicks tomorrow!!

[MissTracy]

I am soooo excited! I started with chickens and guineas and tomorrow morning I will finally acquire my first baby peafowl! Anybody have any tips? I was going to put them in with some chicks I hatched a few days ago so they get the hang of eating and drinking... anything else? Also have the high protein starter and look forward to making them scrambled eggs

 

[casportpony]

Congrats, how exciting! Have you seen this thread?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/peafowl-sticky-topics-index.389059/

 

[MissTracy]

Y’all - how pretty are these little ones!?
Black shoulder - two pair. I am stoked!

 

[casportpony]

Y’all - how pretty are these little ones!?
Black shoulder - two pair. I am stoked!

Congrats, they are beautiful!

 

[Midnightman14]

Feed medicated feed or put corid in the water.

 

[MissTracy]

Thank you so much! We are eventually going to have to call ourselves a zoo instead of a family farm I think

 

[KsKingBee]

Did you know the two brown chicks are not Black Shoulder? They may be split to but they are not BS.

 

[MissTracy]

Nope I have no idea would they be split with an India blue? I have zero experience so I def cannot spot differences in chicks yet. Thank you for the info!

 

[KsKingBee]

There are a lot of great posts in the sitckies at the top of the list of topics, I think you could learn a lot quicker by reading through them first. Look for the basic Genetics 101, almost everything has been laid out there.

 

[MissTracy]

There are a lot of great posts in the sitckies at the top of the list of topics, I think you could learn a lot quicker by reading through them first. Look for the basic Genetics 101, almost everything has been laid out there.

So... I am new and still very confused. Are they mixed? Because I toured the farm I got them from and all of the females were white and the males were the colored birds. Is it a mix? I thought if the female chicks were light that meant black shoulder. Am I wrong? Or did I possibly just get four birds of unknown gender?