Lets see your Egyptians (plus pinioning pics on page 3)

[spectrumranch]

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Randy,
Aggressive towards other waterfowl only? Or other birds- say turkeys?

Steve

They seem to only be aggressive towards waterfowl their size or smaller. We have a pair with 7 babies that stay by our chicken pens. They chase the Black East Indies away but don't care about the chickens, turkeys, peacocks.

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

Thanks Randy! Now I just have to "wear down" the DW. She says they look funny..... maybe they will grow on her. lol

They do fly don't they?

Steve

 

[spectrumranch]

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yes beinging a wild goose they can fly extremely well. We pinion all of our babies.

 

[Violet22]

Wow, those are neat looking! I have never seen one before........beautiful!!! Thanks for posting pics!

 

[spectrumranch]

 

[chickenzoo]

Awwwwwwwwwwwww... they are like.. let me out of here......

I want to get some more when I get more property......

 

[Cat Water]

Those white ones don't look half as mean as the colored ones. The colored ones look like thugs!

 

[spectrumranch]

Pinioning the babies:

Babies back with dad and mom- after pinioning.

 

[rainplace]

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Wow, I had prepared myself to look at something gruesome, but that doesn't look bad at all. It's really that easy and bloodless?

Thank you for the photos.

 

[spectrumranch]

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Yes if you pinion babies with in the first couple days for hatching- they usually do not bleed more than a little drop. From a couple days to about a week or so they will get a few drops of blood but nothing to serious. Pinioning older babies will bleed more- you can hold some flour, powdered sugar or bloodstop powder on it to help stop the bleeding faster.

One thing that I think helps is after you pinion the bird, release it, put in back in the brooder or with the parents, if you hold the bird, it is more stressed by that and gets the heart beating faster; so it will bleed more than if you release it right away.

Don't worry if you see some blood on the bird's side, if the baby does get a little drop of blood on the cut- when that rubs off onto the side- it may make a little blood spot which the baby will wash off when it gets to the water dish.