My peacock died today :-(

[AnimalsRmyLife]

So sorry for the lost of your sweet little friend.

Keep giving love to your remaining babies!

 

[Birdrain92]

So sorry to hear that. I lost this baby. First peachick out of my adults. Stay strong it's hard loosing animals that are like kids to you. Coco.

 

[chooks4life]

Thank you all for your replies - it is much appreciated. I wonder as he was free range when we bought him and then had been penned for the months we had him, he may not have been used to being exposed to such concentrate levels of Coccidia in the soil? If he was free range he would have ample room to move around?

Once a peafowl or chicken has Coccidia, is it treatable, or is it a fatal disease?

Cheers, Mary

There are a few types of Cocci; he may have just been exposed to one that he's never experienced before. Liming the ground is helpful to destroy parasite eggs and diseases.

In my experience Cocci's very treatable but it's always a lot harder to start a bird off on a relatively low quality diet then try to put in the intensive husbandry later on when it falls sick. You can't put in later what never went in at the start. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, as they say. Some forms of Cocci would be more virulent than others, of course.

Fresh raw garlic, crushed or cut, treats Coccidiosis. I've never lost a single animal to Cocci, never even seen it in my flock, because I feed them fresh raw garlic as a staple, an average of a clove per bird per day. I don't use Corid, vaccinations, or other chemical wormers or treatments.

Many find that sort of claim controversial to put it mildly, even downright offensive, but please, at least try it in a control group or something before you dismiss it. I'm not saying this works for me for the mere heck of it, lol!

If in doubt, try it out, and if you don't know for sure, find out, lol, before you decide it must be untrue --- I wish some people would at least be open minded enough to try what they're so quick to dismiss and scorn. It'd save them a world of fruitless trouble and much loss.

Best wishes to everyone.