Well now I am at 20 peafowl. O__O Haha who needs to buy more when between peahens and incubators you can get more. Actually I do need to sell some once they get bigger. I need more unrelated birds. Not more related birds. Ice hatched out four, one mysteriously dissapeared...I figured it wandered out of the pen and a hawk or a cat got it. The other three are fine and growing. Damsel on the other hand hatched out five peachicks. One of hers died somehow...It was my favorite one too because it had a lot of white on its wings. I just found it dead in the pen one day and I didn't see any blood. Maybe it got trampled? Well now she is doing well with the four she has. Although the other day I saved one. I heard Damsel calling for a chick and I noticed a food dish was moving around so I ran into the pen and flipped the dish over and under it there was her missing chick. Poor thing! As for the chicks I hatched....Uh I have decided NOT to try hatching eggs myself again. Horrible deaths...Out of four two died. One when I was on a trip and it died under my parent's care so who knows what happened then the one with the bad leg/foot died. The two remaining ones are so cute! One had a crooked toe that I couldn't fix even after so many shoes (it would jump in the water and the tape would lose the sticky and fall off). The crooked toe has fixed on its own and you can't even tell the chick had it to begin with. My boyfriend has named that one Pippy. He had a connection to it because when he was little he had a clubed foot and he had to have surgery on it. Now, just like him, Pippy is all better.
The time has come and gone that was devistating for me last year, which was when those two big coons killed two of my sweet birds. I am so happy not to have any major deaths. The peachick deaths were sad, but I am glad to have all of my adult and yearling birds safe. I have done a bit of pen improvements...I rolled two logs into the pen and stood them up in different locations. They are great to put food ontop of and the peafowl like to perch up there and preen their feathers there. The bamboo in my pen is getting really tall and bugs like to land on the leaves and I like to watch them jump up to snatch bugs off of the leaves.
Like I said watching Ice's peachicks walk out of the pen peeping and running after bugs in the grass is so cool. They never go too far and mom is always watching. She calls them back eventually and they come running to her.
Peep is still my favorite. He likes to follow me around closely and he perfers eating directly out of the food can I cary around or out of my hand then off of the ground...He is so spoiled.
I need to take some photos...
My parents have been throwing around the idea of us moving over to my grandma's which is where we keep my peafowl, and I hope we do move there because I would get to walk out and see them whenever I want and it would be easier free ranging them if I lived there. I am really excited about it because my grandma has a larger yard then we do and I would be in charge of yard beautification and I love doing yardwork and planting things so I am really excited!
The time has come and gone that was devistating for me last year, which was when those two big coons killed two of my sweet birds. I am so happy not to have any major deaths. The peachick deaths were sad, but I am glad to have all of my adult and yearling birds safe. I have done a bit of pen improvements...I rolled two logs into the pen and stood them up in different locations. They are great to put food ontop of and the peafowl like to perch up there and preen their feathers there. The bamboo in my pen is getting really tall and bugs like to land on the leaves and I like to watch them jump up to snatch bugs off of the leaves.
Like I said watching Ice's peachicks walk out of the pen peeping and running after bugs in the grass is so cool. They never go too far and mom is always watching. She calls them back eventually and they come running to her.
Peep is still my favorite. He likes to follow me around closely and he perfers eating directly out of the food can I cary around or out of my hand then off of the ground...He is so spoiled.
My parents have been throwing around the idea of us moving over to my grandma's which is where we keep my peafowl, and I hope we do move there because I would get to walk out and see them whenever I want and it would be easier free ranging them if I lived there. I am really excited about it because my grandma has a larger yard then we do and I would be in charge of yard beautification and I love doing yardwork and planting things so I am really excited!
