my lonely little pheasant

[old commando]

i had 6 eggs shipped in , got one hatch . such a lonely little bird . the little thing cried so piteously for the first few days , all alone. kinda reminded me of myself, crying for a friend , new hatched in to a new world .
i nearly ordered a new shipment of pheasant eggs but thought better of it . have shipment of peafowl eggs due in soon , quite an advanced behavior to incubate 2 different kinds in the same incubator with different set times , well beyond my KSA [ knowledge skills ability]
little bird settling down pretty good , does not flee so much when i enter the bathroom and sit on the toilet stool , say hey little bird , i see you . i have seen little bird poke beak in to the quail water devices , i have seen little bird peck at the gamebird crumbles + millet + wild bird feed ...
i love my little bird .

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Can you get it a chick friend? Sometimes the tractor supply sells pheasant chicks. So I would check there.

 

[old commando]

i put handfuls clover from the front yard where the pens will be into the brood shield area , little bird likes those best , really works them over , in 10 days i should get the peafowl eggs in , 30 days then maybe a hatch , maybe little golden pheasant think peafowl chicks friends , do you think ? /

 

[old commando]

i think in the natural world it is not uncommon for a chick to find itself alone , the single survivor of a hatch // i have murry ky radio WKMS npr running in there ,, bird hears voice , sounds music , all day all night long /they playing left of the dial now , i love this little bird , gives me a reason to get out the rack , leave dreamtime , visit the real world TMI [ too much information } maybe just looked at my little bird , its sleeping , resting so peacefully ,

 

[muddy75]

Sometimes a stuffed animal or a feather duster can be helpful with lone chicks until a friend hatches

 

[old commando]

little golden still alive , growing out feathering up . no bigger than my thumb on hatch , nice big biddy now , big enough to go out to the pens [ if they was ready] during the day , but me being old and slow worry about catching the thing up and bringing it in , brooding in the main hall bathroom is a trip , it big and trying to fly , and of course excretes most every where , then it is a toilet room . there was a little problem with odor but i put an ionizer in there ,, problem reduced .. it is all good to me , eating , drinking excreting and growing
i will try to get the first stage pens ready , soon , i am so sad that the kids [ 30 year olds] across the street said they would help , have not . their loss on life experience i think . ,, i think this might be a 3 week old little bird now i hate to tell you i have lost track of time . ,,,
front yard pheasant , my vendor in amazonia mo tells me i will have peafowl eggs in next week , guess i will have to open a string in peafowl , eggs in the incubator ..