It's complicated

[chickens r life]

Last spring I found a peachick all alone on my farm with no mother in sight. I decided to raise it and keep it with my chickens when it got old enough. 6 months pass and a neighbor finds 2 more peachicks with no mother in sight and gives them to me. (I have peafowl at my farm) turns out the original peachick is a male and the other two are female. Now hat it is spring the make is trying to mate with the young females and it plucking their saddle feathers off. He even drew blood from one of them. (They are in a chicken run) should I let the one male out with the existing peafowl that live on my farm or will he not survive?

Thanks

 

[zazouse]

Yes if he mounts he is a male hens do not do this only males to my knowledge male even mount inanimate objects also like stuffed toys and even each other when on a stuffed toy, i call this leap frog LOL
Not one time have i ever seen a hen do this , if he is causing damage there is no sense in leaving him to cause more as the hens chose the male not the other way around for the most part, now i do know males do not like hens sometimes even if she choose him, they are pea brains

 

[casportpony]

If it is in their system, then how would I treat them? With corid? I heard that treating birds for coccidiosis is very stressful on the bird. I also heard that I can treat for coccidiosis using herbs that they consume/ingest.

I use a maintenance dose of one teaspoon of corid powder per gallon of water. I also periodically worm with wazine which kills the most common form of worms in poultry and follow that up in ten days or so with another dose. As wazine will not kill Cecal, gape or capillary worms I use safeguard goat wormer for the next round. Each area of the country will have different time tables as to how often. The wazine is water soluble so can be added to the water. I administer the fenbendezole orally by putting the correct amount per bird on treats and given to each bird as a treat. I am not sure  if you keep your three juveniles with your chickens but if you do you need to be especially watchful for chicken poop that looks like yellow orange mustard color. This normally is a symptom of black head which can be fatal for peas. Peas are great to have but at times they do require more TLC than chickens. Good luck with all of yours. FC

The one dose of Wazine will kill roundworms, if they drink enough. Your follow up dose of Safeguard will treat the roundworms that hatched, and cecal worms, but only if you gave enough... it will *not* treat capillary worms or gapeworms. Capillary and gapes need Safeguard for several days in a row.

-Kathy

 

[Frenchman Creek]

The one dose of Wazine will kill roundworms, if they drink enough. Your follow up dose of Safeguard will treat the roundworms that hatched, and cecal worms, but only if you gave enough... it will *not* treat capillary worms or gapeworms. Capillary and gapes need Safeguard for several days in a row.

-Kathy

Good to know. Thank you. I probably should have been a little clearer on the wazine. I follow my first dose of wazine with a second dose of wazine ten or so days later. The next round of de-worming, usually in a couple of months I switch to the white womer and follow that in ten days or so with a second round of the white. How often in a years time do you feel it is necessary to do a five day regimen of the white. I also raise goats and there is also an alarm out re: resistance and under dosing Some tests starting to show safeguard no longer effective in goats. Hopefully the peas will do better.

 

[zazouse]

Last spring I found a peachick all alone on my farm with no mother in sight. I decided to raise it and keep it with my chickens when it got old enough. 6 months pass and a neighbor finds 2 more peachicks with no mother in sight and gives them to me. (I have peafowl at my farm) turns out the original peachick is a male and the other two are female. Now hat it is spring the make is trying to mate with the young females and it plucking their saddle feathers off. He even drew blood from one of them. (They are in a chicken run) should I let the one male out with the existing peafowl that live on my farm or will he not survive?

Thanks

you sure a rooster isn't doing this to the wee chicks never ever seen a young peacock take a young peahen but have seen roosters try

 

[chickens r life]

Don't have any roosters... The male is about 10 months old the females are maybe 7 months... I've seen the male saddle on one of my hens so I'm pretty sure it's him.

 

[chickens r life]

Lol... So do you recommend that I let him roam free with the others? I just worried he might die since he wasn't raised by his real mother.

 

[chickens r life]

Also, the male hasn't "honked" yet. The females are just starting to but the male hasn't. Sometimes I think he is trying but kind of heaves.

What does this mean?

Thanks

 

[zazouse]

Lol... So do you recommend that I let him roam free with the others? I just worried he might die since he wasn't raised by his real mother.

I have no idea i do not know how your place is set up, how much problem you have with predator's or if you have time to work with him if he tried to go some place you do not want him, being raised by his mom would not assure his survival no more than it would hers, it all depends on how your place is set up , there is always safety in numbers as that means more eyes to look out for danger , not sure what you mean by honking they make many sounds calling like a cat is a peacock sound, honking means danger or something is amiss, long raspy calling can mean they are searching for their friend here

 

[chickens r life]

Well he hasn't started to do any sort of calling... Well, we used to have 9 ish peafow but have of them disapeared. Now we only have 4 males and 1 female (bad ratio) they normaly fly up on the roof and sleep there. We also have a lot of redwood trees and I've seen them fly into branches so I assume they could/do sleep there.

Last spring, the one and only peahen hatched maybe three or four babies (one of them is the one in the cage now we named him Ody) sadly, none of the chicks survived except for Ody. This year, I am thinking of taking the chicks from the mama. Does that sound appropriate? I assume that the two other peahens that out neighbor found where from the same mother later on in the season. I am just trying to do what's best for them and the mommy has done a terrible job keeping them safe.

Thanks