Peacocks w/chickens

[Yoda]

If memory serves me right come breeding season the turkeys will attack the peafowl esp the males.

 

[fowlsessed]

Aw great, always something! Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Frosty]

In regards to the blackhead disease, I run/house my turkeys with my chickens, they were raised together since birth. 1 year into it, my toms developed the dreaded disease! It happened overnight. they had all of the symptoms, blackened faces, swollen sinus, lethargy, and yellow,runny,bloody droppings. I immediately gave them 1/4 cup garlic powder, 1/4 cup italian herbs 1/4 cup cayenne pepper per 15 lbs of food. It worked immediately. Garlic is a natural dewormer, the italian seasoning consists of rosemary, sage, oregano, parsley, basil, and thyme, which have antioxidants, and cayenne/chili contains capsaicin. Ocellated turkeys eat peppers in central america, I have observed my turkeys eating cloves of garlic, I'm sure peafowl might do the same to rid themselves of harmful parasites. I also use above ingredients as a prophylactic, I just reduce the quantity to 1/4 cup each per 50 lbs of feed. I keep tetracycline general antibiotic on hand, but I only use it as a last resort. Antibiotics can cause more harm than good in the long run. Just MHO.

Of the symptoms listed, the only ones that fit blackhead is the lethargy (which fits any illness turkeys get, not just blackhead) and yellow droppings (but not the bloody part that I know of, that's usually coccidiosis). Blackhead doesn't really make their faces black and swollen sinus is from sinusitis (sometimes caused by Mycoplasma). The yellow in the droppings is an indicator that something is going on with the liver. Putting anything in the feed to treat histomoniasis (blackhead) will have a poor chance for success because by the time symptoms show up they are at the point where they quit eating. I don't know what you had going on, but IMHO it wasn't blackhead.

 

[casportpony]

I've had several with blood in their stools, several without and one with swollen sinuses, but that one's necropsy showed a secondary fungal and bacterial infection.

I also seriously doubt that it was blackhead.

 

[casportpony]

You can see my blackhead poop pictures here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/719075/not-family-friendly-peafowl-poop-pictures-work-in-progress

 

[Frosty]

I've had several with blood in their stools, several without and one with swollen sinuses, but that one's necropsy showed a secondary fungal and bacterial infection.

I also seriously doubt that it was blackhead.

I never knew that casportpony, you teach me a lot! So the blood in the stools, what do you think it's from? Possibly coccidia getting out of control while the immune system is trying to take care of the histomoniasis? Or damage from the protozoa itself?

 

[peacock 05]

I have a peacock that is getting picked on with my other flock and I'm wanting to put it with another different one that has never had 2. Birds in a pen do u think I should,????????? Thank s for any help.

 

[zazouse]

Can you move them both to another pen? that way thet are both in new territory and less likely to fight over their space.

 

[casportpony]

I never knew that casportpony, you teach me a lot! So the blood in the stools, what do you think it's from? Possibly coccidia getting out of control while the immune system is trying to take care of the histomoniasis? Or damage from the protozoa itself?

I wish I knew what the blood in the stools was from or why there are so many different abnormal types of poop in a bird affected with blackhead. As for coccidiosis, *all* of my deceased birds had necropsies done (2 turkey poults in 2011 and 2 peachicks in 2012), none had coccidiosis, but all had secondary bacterial infections and two also had secondary fungal infections.

Something else I found interesting... In 2011, I noticed that six of the peachicks at the feed store were looking sick, so I brought them into the store and weighed them. All six were *very* thin, 600-800 grams each, about 1/2 of what they should have weighed and all had foamy, mustard colored poop. One died in my arms, two died later that evening. I sent the three bodies to UCD and the necropsies showed severe coccidiosis and visceral gout. The remaining three recovered.

FWIW, their poop looked a lot like this:


That picture is what the poop page calls normal. If any of my peas poop that, I worry!
Poop Page
http://chat.allotment.org.uk/index.php?topic=17568.0

 

[zazouse]

Blood in the stool can be caused from the intestin sheading it's lining, it can be normal or can be caused by illness also, i see blood once in a while it would be the kind of poop i see it in that would tell me that i have a sick bird.