peachicks

[feathermaid]

Welcome to BackYard Chickens!!
I hope you can figure out what happened to your little one...

Best wishes with your new Pea adventure!

 

[joshanah]

Thank you all for your kindness. I'm sitting here with tear. After reading all the information, I feel so bad for not knowing enough. I fear I'm responsible for my baby suffering and dying this morning. She had a slight bit of poop, possibly a bit yellow, but no other outward signs of anything other than ruffled feathers. I have all my peacocks in with the chickens and four ducks. Is this bad? They've been together since Mother's Day and no problems until now. I don't know if I should worm them all or give everyone Fish-Zole or Baytril. I feel like I really failed her and now the rest may be in danger as well.

 

[N F C]

Thank you all for your kindness. I'm sitting here with tear. After reading all the information, I feel so bad for not knowing enough. I fear I'm responsible for my baby suffering and dying this morning. She had a slight bit of poop, possibly a bit yellow, but no other outward signs of anything other than ruffled feathers. I have all my peacocks in with the chickens and four ducks. Is this bad? They've been together since Mother's Day and no problems until now. I don't know if I should worm them all or give everyone Fish-Zole or Baytril. I feel like I really failed her and now the rest may be in danger as well.

So sorry for your loss, seems we all go through that sooner or later

Did the peafowl folks give you any advice? The only one I know right off hand is great at helping members out, let me give her a shout...
@casportpony

 

[Kiki]

Welcome to BYC!
We are glad you joined our flock!
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[casportpony]

Hi there, welcome back to BYC! So sorry for your loss. Peafowl are so delicate and it can be very hard to raise chicks from hatch to breeding age. How old was the chick that died?

 

[N F C]

@casportpony thanks so much for popping in (yay Kathy!)

 

[ronott1]

I've never raised peas but they are such beautiful birds. Here's a link to the peafowl forum, someone over there should be able to help you out:
Peafowl

Best of luck!

When you see a post like this, would it be a good idea to move it? We project manages can move threads and individual posts to other threads. I so move them but do not like to move them when they have been here this long

 

[ronott1]

@joshanah

I moved the thread to the peafowl forum.

Please go back to the introduction forum and introduce yourself. I would love to learn more about you

 

[Kessel23]

Thank you all for your kindness. I'm sitting here with tear. After reading all the information, I feel so bad for not knowing enough. I fear I'm responsible for my baby suffering and dying this morning. She had a slight bit of poop, possibly a bit yellow, but no other outward signs of anything other than ruffled feathers. I have all my peacocks in with the chickens and four ducks. Is this bad? They've been together since Mother's Day and no problems until now. I don't know if I should worm them all or give everyone Fish-Zole or Baytril. I feel like I really failed her and now the rest may be in danger as well.

It was probably not black head and no you don't need fish zole, you don't need to move your peafowl, it is not your fault for keeping them by each other. The only reason you should not house peafowl with chickens is because chickens can get infected with the black head protozoa and survive to spread it to other birds. Peafowl are not resistant to blackhead and will die pretty fast when infected. If one of your chickens had blackhead it would quickly spread through the whole flock. After being infected with black head peafowl will take 7-14 days to show any symptoms, if your flock had blackhead your peafowl would have died a long time ago. It is possible that your peahen picked up the black head protozoa from a earth worm but it is unlikely. The symptoms you described sounded more like coccidiosis which is way more common than black head and can have very similar symptoms. My BBB turkey started to get droopy wings and started to poop out this-

Mustard yellow poop and droopy wings are some of the main symptoms of black head and I started to freak out, @casportpony and some other BYC members suggested that it might be coccidiosis and so I started treating the tom with corid and he was back to normal in a few days.

 

[Kessel23]

It was probably not black head and no you don't need fish zole, you don't need to move your peafowl, it is not your fault for keeping them by each other. The only reason you should not house peafowl with chickens is because chickens can get infected with the black head protozoa and survive to spread it to other birds. Peafowl are not resistant to blackhead and will die pretty fast when infected. If one of your chickens had blackhead it would quickly spread through the whole flock. After being infected with black head peafowl will take 7-14 days to show any symptoms, if your flock had blackhead your peafowl would have died a long time ago. It is possible that your peahen picked up the black head protozoa from a earth worm but it is unlikely. The symptoms you described sounded more like coccidiosis which is way more common than black head and can have very similar symptoms. My BBB turkey started to get droopy wings and started to poop out this-

Mustard yellow poop and droopy wings are some of the main symptoms of black head and I started to freak out, @casportpony and some other BYC members suggested that it might be coccidiosis and so I started treating the tom with corid and he was back to normal in a few days.

Oh, btw, it would not hurt to deworm the whole flock, I usually deworm my flock once every two months. Not because of blackhead, but because there are a lot of internal parasites that chickens, ducks, and peafowl can pick up from the wild.