Housing guineas and peafowl together?

[Debbienmousey]

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Love the story

. I hear peafowl are very bonding like that. We're hoping for some eggs from our peafowl this coming spring (

). I'm not going to risk my peahen breaking them or me ruining them in the incubator..so I'm planning on sticking them under my Silkies

. If the peahen goes broody I'm going to give her chicken eggs to hatch, LOL. I can just see my little Silkie hens with peachicks sitting underneath them right now..Can't wait.

 

[FrenchToast]

One of the articles posted above from Kansas University said a preventative med would be Histostat-50.
Has anyone ever used it and where do you get it?

Thanks

 

[deerman]

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Correct ...i also raise poult same as i do peachicks..........last two years i raised turkey didn't lose any poults. Best not to raise either with chickens, chicken can be carriers of blackhead with no harm to them........but will kill poults or peachicks. also best to raise them off the ground ,on medicated feed.......


i know people raise them on the ground .......but in most cases they lose some. Now not all chickens are carriers of blackhead...reason some people have good luck.......also seen people lose all their poults to blackhead running them with chickens.

only takes one chicken.....if a person is having good luck ,they will be fine until they add more chickens....

If i'm not mistaken onces a bird is cure of blackhead they become a carrier.

I would have been crazy to run a chicken with my large groupof breeder peafowl(100+) LOOK at the risk if only a few ,maybe worth the risk.

Fact i never had to ever treat for blackhead(knockin on wood)........over 20 years with peafowl. but my father told be about running chicken with turkey.......reason i never had.

you are correct on what to treat them with........its a med for fish also

 

[FrenchToast]

When you say raise them on medicated feed what feed are you referring to?

So if you keep your chickens wormed for cecal worms that would reduce the risk right?

The peafowl I have now have not been exposed to the ground yet. So I've had no problems. But I plan on moving them out where they would be close to chickens but not housed directly with them. So I guess free ranging would be out of the question if the chickens are doing it too??

Another thing I was told by the woman I will be getting some peahens from is. She said to keep them on the medicated feed, the chick feed and you won't have a problem. She said she has sold birds to people that took them off the feed and the birds died !!! Any comments on that???? I told her that that med will only build resistance to Cocci, at least that is what it does for chickens. Are peafowl different ?

Wow, learn something everyday !!!

 

[Frosty]

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The medicated feed for cocci has something that blocks thiamine for cocci so it can't survive. The goal is to keep chicks from getting it until their immune system is more developed and can handle it. Perhaps keeping the birds on it too long affected their immune system?

 

[FrenchToast]

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The medicated feed for cocci has something that blocks thiamine for cocci so it can't survive. The goal is to keep chicks from getting it until their immune system is more developed and can handle it. Perhaps keeping the birds on it too long affected their immune system?

That is what I was trying to explain to her. She said she has been feeding her peafowl, all of them adults included the medicated food all the time !!! I guess if I get them I will either buy one bag and use it or add corrid to their water for a little while until they have been exposed to my environment. I agree, this is not for long term use but I'm afraid there will already be a shot to there system moving here I don't want to add extra shock by changing their diet as well.

Will post more after I go look at them and find out more. Thanks

 

[bdfive]

I really would love to have chickens but with 15 grown and 11 chick peafowl I feel I shouldn't risk chicken diseases not to mention complicating my life more then it already is, LOL!!! I did accept the gift of a Polish and Welsummer chicks to keep my lone peachick company but freaked out after a week and gave them back. They were delightful to watch. The peachick being all wings would fly up to the roost in the 2' by 4' brooder we had on the closed in back porch. The chicks would try to follow with those tiny little wings and crash to the floor. It was so funny. It was mean of me to take them away from my little peacock but felt it was best for the peafowl and me. My little guy is going on 1 1/2 month old now and out in a smaller pen off the ground with the older chicks that can fly up on a roost to visit him. He and I play when I'm out there.

Do guinea fowl carry the same diseases chickens do? Regarding guinea and peafowl together I've read the guinea are to hyper and shouldn't be penned with newly hatched peas. I do have a neighbor that had a show Barred Rock rooster get out of it's area and was killed by a guinea rooster.

 

[deerman]

Yes the medicated starter i use it until they are on the ground a few weeks like 3 months. Yes worming the birds will help them from getting blackhead,

Free ranging birds risk would be lower i guess than all penned together. Best to hear from those that have luck with them together, remember some do with good results , still even then ,i would wait untill alot older.

 

[Bigcreekpeafowl]

We live on a farm and have 6 peafowl free ranging with chickens, guineas, and ducks. The peafowl are robust and healthy. Very few squabbles happen. And that is usually people related. Or during breeding season.

I wouldn't keep peafowl penned with chickens or ducks. The ducks will trash their area and keep everything wet.

Problems happen with keeping them penned together in my opinion come from parasites (main issue), bringing in new animals, overcrowding, feeding appropriate diet for all, and not keeping the pens regularly cleaned and maintained.

 

[bdfive]

Bigcreekpeafowl, what you mention is exactly why I don't need as many peafowl as I have. Kept 3 chicks each from 2009 and 2010 hatches. 3 doesn't sound like many until you start doing it every year. There are 6 of the 15 adults I have. Could have only had 9 but got stupid, haha!!! Now I have these 75% Green chicks I want to see grow out to compare with 3 from last year. My plan was to let the Spalding free range but after trying it and seeing how well they fly I'm apprensive. Before I penned them due to more then usual predators I was having to walk 2 five acre tracts over to lead them home with bread just before dark. I spend a lot of time cleaning the 4 - 10' by 30' pens. Need to get out there now. My initial plan was to raise and release to see if I can build a flock that will stay like our India Blue do. If I get up the nerve to do that I can probably get some chickens. I believe with them all free ranging grounds will stay clean enough to not have disease problems. As soon as we get some horizonal roosts up at the fence between us and our neighbor on the west side they will be ranging on his 50 acres too. Most of my neighbors are open to having the peafowl roam. Another excuse to not turn them loose now is the Spaldings be darker in color. With those long legs I'm afraid deer hunters could mistake them for a wild turkey. This hobby has become complicated.