Our peacock is sick, I think it's something wrong with the crop? Like with chickens ...

[GreenFarmRonaldsvlei]

Hello dear animal friends, last update.

In the last three days she was able to eat and drink on her own again.
I'm surprised???

Everything is back to normal, eating, drinking and grooming no more problems. She can use her beak again.

So unfortunately we still don't really know what caused it, thank God it's over.

When she was so sick she was allowed to sleep in the house with us, on the gas oven in the corner.
She kept it up, at the end of the day she comes into the house alone, has a little drink and then sleeps on the oven ...

I think we'll let her do that, in 2-3 months the new husband is coming.
Then she'll have to go back to the tree.

Thanks again everyone for your letters and opinions.

 

[Waterfaery]

Thanks so much for updating. I'm delighted to hear she's ok.

 

[GreenFarmRonaldsvlei]

Hello dear animal lovers,
I wanted to let you know that everything is OK. She is in the best condition

 

[GreenFarmRonaldsvlei]

Hello dear Peacock friends,
everything is fine here. The peacocks eat well, groom themselves and have fun. Ronalda, our peacock hen, has no signs of a past illness.

As already mentioned, we wanted to get her a husband. We have found a suitable young man for 2 months now. He is 1.5 years old and has settled in very well with us. The first tail feathers are slowly coming in and we think he will be ready to show his full beauty for the first time in October, November.

After Ronalda's first birthday in December,
she wanted to lay an egg. A little early for her age.
We think it has something to do with the chickens, Ronalda saw babies with them and was perhaps in the mood for babies.
After the egg she was very restless for 9 days and wanted to sit too.
I had to lie down on the ground and she came to my shoulder, where we later made the nest.
But with an unfertilized egg, nothing should come out.
We couldn't dissuade her from sitting for 29 days.
After that she was a little disappointed...

Now everything is OK again, sometimes she still calls for babies when she has caught a small fly.At the end of this year she should perhaps be able to produce babies of her own.
I will give you an update..

I wanted to say something about what the birds eat.
We have found that dried black solider fly larvae is a very good supplementary food. The birds love it.
They are dry and can be easily mixed in as baby food. You can also pour boiling water over them and offer them as whole worms after they have cooled down.

They also love tomatoes, grapes, cactus fruits, pomegranates, peaches, plums and apples.
Every day a different fruit and color .

Ronalda still wants to be fed, from mouth to beak...

 

[GreenFarmRonaldsvlei]

Hello friends

Everything is fine here, everyone is getting along.

But I wanted to let you know that Ronalda had a relapse with this disease. This happened exactly 8 months later.The first time I posted here, Ronalda was 8 months old, and almost exactly 8 months later, she had the same symptoms of this disease.

This time we noticed it very early: in the morning when she came out of her room, she looked very weak and her wings were drooping. The evening before, she also didn't want to eat properly.

So, we brought her into the house and gave her a quiet place to normalize.
We tried giving her a little water, but nothing more, rest and a little love. She likes it when you hold her head in your hand and then stroke her neck.
She didn't eat anything and didn't drink anything properly either.

But in this case, I usually wait a day and give the bird the rest it needs to heal. They actually have a good healing system of their own, if you don't experiment too much.

The next day, we make a ball out of mealie meal the size of a glass ball (1.5 x 1.5 cm). I give her a little water and see if she can swallow it. If so, she gets this food ball.
You can easily see by looking at her throat whether the food ball goes down or if her crop is blocked. Does everything go down?
Okay, we feed her again and give her water throughout the day?
Of course, Ronalda now sleeps in the house with us.

On the third day, things got visibly better. She tried to walk a few steps again and even try to groom herself again; it was still difficult. By the evening, things were getting better and better; she tried to pick up small seeds herself to eat.

And then? On day four, everything was fine again. Ronalda was hungry and thirsty, and could drink on his own, eating, and using his beak.

Roby, our peacock, didn't show any signs; he was just sad because he had to sleep alone in the peafowl room for two days.

All the best, my friends, have a good day.