- Aug 25, 2012
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I have three peafowl left out of five that I hatched here at home.
Two have died and one is dying.
They were born at the end of April so they are about 4 months old. We have had an adult male peacock for three years and have never had any health problems with him.
We wanted him to have some company, hence we got these peacock eggs and hatched and are trying to raise them. They are all housed together.
The only symptoms that I have seen is that they become less energetic and have loose brown stools. I feed them medicated game bird scratch with occasional rice, noodles, etc from the house. Lat seek I gave them dried mealworms for the first time;
The first one died about a month ago, the second on about 10 days ago and the third starting showing symptoms last night.
I have been putting Tetracycline in their water for the past 6 days. I don't know what to do. Any ideas on saving the last two?? I am new to this and feel just awful that these birds have been suffering.
I have researched for the last month on the internet and there is so much information that I am not sure which is correct and which is not. Please help me if you can!
Thank you
Two have died and one is dying.
They were born at the end of April so they are about 4 months old. We have had an adult male peacock for three years and have never had any health problems with him.
We wanted him to have some company, hence we got these peacock eggs and hatched and are trying to raise them. They are all housed together.
The only symptoms that I have seen is that they become less energetic and have loose brown stools. I feed them medicated game bird scratch with occasional rice, noodles, etc from the house. Lat seek I gave them dried mealworms for the first time;
The first one died about a month ago, the second on about 10 days ago and the third starting showing symptoms last night.
I have been putting Tetracycline in their water for the past 6 days. I don't know what to do. Any ideas on saving the last two?? I am new to this and feel just awful that these birds have been suffering.
I have researched for the last month on the internet and there is so much information that I am not sure which is correct and which is not. Please help me if you can!
Thank you
