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wvchickenmama

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I love this site! We are one year new chicken and peafowl owners now, started with 12 chicks half reds and half speckled for my birthday last year, 10 of the guaranteed pullets grew up into roosters, so I had to reduce the flock to one speckled rooster and two speckled hens, plus we have a pair of peas, one blue male and I beleive the white is a female, and last week I added 8 chicks/pullets, half reds and half Cornish, we will see how many are actually pullets in a few months, they are such fun to watch! They just keep us laughing all the time! My white pea is sick and I have found much helpful info here on BYC, and am now treating her for gape worm.
 
Greetings from Kansas, wvchickenmama, and
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! Great to have you with us! Happy BYC was able to help you out! Stop by and visit the peafowl thread if you haven't already! Lot of luck to you and your flock!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/51/peafowl
 
There are a few WV threads on here if you want to meet people from the surrounding area to source birds. The most popular one is West Virginia Anyone? That one seems to be more active than it used to be, and there may be more than one by that name. Just subscribe and you can keep up.
 
Thanks everyone! I have been scouring this sight and others for all the peafowl info I can get, my pea hen is still droopy winged but not gaping nearly as much, in the last six days she's had two oral administrations of safeguard equine paste, about a pea size blob, and today will be third injection of tylan 50, sub-Q, I tried to find enough loose skin down on her back close to where her neck ties in, but her feathers are sooo thick I just could not find any there so I have been injecting the side of her neck, very carefully, amazing how that little pocket of medicine is gone the next day! She has been eating and drinking some, I made her scrambled eggs this morning with meal worms and plain yogurt on the side, she was very interested but after each little bite she would gape for a minute. I can't see or palpate any object so I am presuming gape worm and accompanying infection. No good bird vets here.
 

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