Peachick

[mcwooten]

I have one peachick that hatched about three weeks ago. I am raising it with several chicks that are almost exactly the same age. However, it seems to me that the chicks are growing and developing much more quickly than the peachick. The chicks are much more interested in food than the peachick, too. It does eat, just not as ravenously as the chicks. So, I guess my question is: do peafowl develop more slowly than chickens, or is there something wrong with my peachick that I should be worried about?

 

[zazouse]

Yea you need to worry cause my baby peas outgrew the chicks like really fast.
What are you feeding the baby peas?
Do you have any photos of them?

 

[mcwooten]

I'm feeding them Dumor starter. Let me run take a few pictures and I'll upload them here.

 

[mcwooten]

 

[mcwooten]

I'm sorry if the photos don't illustrate the peachick's size very well.

 

[zazouse]

They look younger than 3 weeks, perhaps they need more protein, can you scramble them some eggs every day to bump up the protein levels? that is what i did because they needed more protein than regular chicken feed has or you can feed them game bird feed that has a hight percentage of protein like 25 to 30 percent.
here are some of mine at 3 weeks. notice the crest, that is why i think yours look younger .

 

[zazouse]

This little guy was 10 days old in this photo.

This pair is 6 days old

 

[zazouse]

You chicken chicks are cute , i like the one with the crest, i guess it is a polish of some kind.
your chicken chicks look to be around 3 weeks old .

 

[mcwooten]

I put some scrambled eggs in with them this morning and the peachick ate a few, but, again, wasn't terribly interested in eating. I added some ground high-protein cat food this evening, but it didn't eat any. I am very worried something is wrong. Should I separate it from the rest of the chicks so it can get to the high-protein foods before they eat all that I provide?

 

[mcwooten]

Oh, and yeah, I have Golden Laced Polish, Silver Laced Polish, White Crested Black Polish, and White Sultan chicks. i can't wait for them to grow up!