My peahen won't eat.

[Trefoil]

What % protein is her "seed food"? It will be listed on the bag by the list of ingredients. She should be getting somewhere around 20% for her standard diet. You may want to try to get her on gamebird crumbles with some of the seed mixed in. Vionate is a pretty good vitamin supplement( usually sold in dog food section). She also needs to be getting grit, especially if she's eating seeds & bugs. Has she been wormed? If you don't own other poultry and she doesn't spend much time outside, then parasites are her most likely problem.

 

[thndrdancr]

Also be careful of her eating too much seed food.

I lost twelve peachicks one summer til I realized the babies liked it so much they were eating ALL seed food and not anything else. Its very hard for birds to digest!

They can have some for treats as they love it. Just make sure they don't have it in a 'much as they can eat' situation as sometimes they love it so much they overfill on it and impact everything. I learned the hard way.

 

[MinxFox]

I haven't heard of them dying from too many seeds. The main feed I give my yearling to adult peafowl is black oil sunflower seeds - they eat the shell and all.

The hand raised peachicks only eat medicated chick starter until they are around a year old when I introduce them to the sunflower seeds. The peahen raised peachicks have medicated chick starter available but since they are in with the adults, they can eat seeds if they want.

Of course I give a little cat food to my peafowl and sometimes pellet food (rarely since they don't care for it) and vegetables, fruit, leftover food, and they have access to grass.

I give my peas sunflower seeds almost daily and there are always seeds left over from the previous day that they didn't eat.
TearDropSoup - It sounds like you are giving her a good variety. Even if she is eating bugs, it helps to give her just a bit of cat food maybe 2 days a week. A handful might be the right amount. The cat food my peafowl love to eat is 9 lives cat food and they like the tuna & egg flavored one. My peafowl are picky, and they really don't like game bird feed. They pick out just a few seeds from that, and most of it goes to waste. Game bird feed looks great because it has so many seeds mixed in, but the peafowl (at least my peafowl) don't seem to think it is a yummy mix.

Have you wormed your peafowl yet this year? Some people worm more, some people worm less. It depends on your situation. I worm my peafowl at the start of breeding season (spring) and after breeding season (fall).

Here when I get a bird that isn't eating, has droopy wings, etc, I don't wait long before I treat it using safeguard. I have only lost one bird due to illness so far and I think I didn't treat her in time and that is why she died. That is just what I do, and I am not a vet, I am just an art major.

 

[zazouse]

Also be careful of her eating too much seed food.

I lost twelve peachicks one summer til I realized the babies liked it so much they were eating ALL seed food and not anything else. Its very hard for birds to digest!

They can have some for treats as they love it. Just make sure they don't have it in a 'much as they can eat' situation as sometimes they love it so much they overfill on it and impact everything. I learned the hard way.

Did grit have grit available , i feed all kinds of seeds and fresh stuff to my babies in the brooders and never once lost any to impacted crop from the seeds.

 

[thndrdancr]

Teardrop soup

How is your girl? She ok?

 

[eleeelyy]

I haven't heard of them dying from too many seeds. The main feed I give my yearling to adult peafowl is black oil sunflower seeds - they eat the shell and all.

The hand raised peachicks only eat medicated chick starter until they are around a year old when I introduce them to the sunflower seeds. The peahen raised peachicks have medicated chick starter available but since they are in with the adults, they can eat seeds if they want.

Of course I give a little cat food to my peafowl and sometimes pellet food (rarely since they don't care for it) and vegetables, fruit, leftover food, and they have access to grass.

I give my peas sunflower seeds almost daily and there are always seeds left over from the previous day that they didn't eat.
TearDropSoup - It sounds like you are giving her a good variety. Even if she is eating bugs, it helps to give her just a bit of cat food maybe 2 days a week. A handful might be the right amount. The cat food my peafowl love to eat is 9 lives cat food and they like the tuna & egg flavored one. My peafowl are picky, and they really don't like game bird feed. They pick out just a few seeds from that, and most of it goes to waste. Game bird feed looks great because it has so many seeds mixed in, but the peafowl (at least my peafowl) don't seem to think it is a yummy mix.

Have you wormed your peafowl yet this year? Some people worm more, some people worm less. It depends on your situation. I worm my peafowl at the start of breeding season (spring) and after breeding season (fall).

Here when I get a bird that isn't eating, has droopy wings, etc, I don't wait long before I treat it using safeguard. I have only lost one bird due to illness so far and I think I didn't treat her in time and that is why she died. That is just what I do, and I am not a vet, I am just an art major.

What safe gaurd wormer do you use? Could you please send a link

 

[KsKingBee]

What safe gaurd wormer do you use? Could you please send a link

Safeguard for goats. https://www.revivalanimal.com/produ...9294727856&utm_content=Worming & Parasites #2