Show off your Peas!

[Birdrain92]

Sigh. The sparrows of the field in all their finery do not get wormed either.

How long do those free range peas live? How do you know? What's the parasite load on the birds? What's "get by just fine" mean?

Do you worm your horses? Did your mother make sure you got your shots? Is your dog vaccinated against rabies?

An unfortunately high number of dogs and cats never get vaccinated against rabies, but manage never to catch it due to fortunate lack of exposure. Largely because extensive vaccination efforts keep rabies down to a minimum these days. But the disease is as deadly as ever when exposure occurs.

Have you talked with your vet and your ag teacher about preventative meds for your peafowl?

I don't know I know she has had the same white male since she started. I don't know. They don't die. Yes we worm our horses, yes I have my shots and our dogs and cattle are vaccinated as well as our horses. Our vet said Safeguard horse wormer paste 1cc orally. My ag teachers know very little to nothing on peas. I don't chase my peas. If you get so close they won't stop watching you until you leave. Especially the hen she's the one with trust issues and the male will take food from the others when I'm no in the pen.

 

[Garden Peas]

So the next time that you talk to your vet, explain about not wanting to catch them, and see what the vet says about using liquid Safeguard goat wormer in the peas' food.

Does your ag teacher know chickens and turkeys?

 

[Garden Peas]

Not my photos, but I found this the other day so funny that you mentioned it...
I definitely have a long list of things I want to train a peafowl to do now. Someday when I have another imprinted peachick I want to teach it a bunch of things.

Great photos, so glad you found them and posted them here

You see the stick? That's a target stick... you train the bird (using rewards) to follow the end of the stick. They make commercial ones with a little colored "target" on the end that are collapsible to fit in your pocket. Once the bird (or other critter) understands following the target on the stick, then it's easier to get it to go where you want it to go, like standing on a specific color and shape on the piece of paper...






Now see, you have to do hatching...

 

[casportpony]

For those that don't like clicking on links, here are the pictures from that PDF.







-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

I don't know I know she has had the same white male since she started. I don't know. They don't die. Yes we worm our horses, yes I have my shots and our dogs and cattle are vaccinated as well as our horses. Our vet said Safeguard horse wormer paste 1cc orally. My ag teachers know very little to nothing on peas. I don't chase my peas. If you get so close they won't stop watching you until you leave. Especially the hen she's the one with trust issues and the male will take food from the others when I'm no in the pen.

Next time you talk to your vet ask him if that one cc is enough to treat capillary worms in a 6 kg peacock.

-Kathy

 

[MinxFox]

If you get so close they won't stop watching you until you leave. Especially the hen she's the one with trust issues and the male will take food from the others when I'm no in the pen.

My first peas were like that. You just have to sit in their pen and read a book or do homework or something so that they will get used to you being in the pen. Eventually they won't be so afraid of your presence. After a while they will get to where they are not afraid to preen in front of you. Preening in your presence is trust in my opinion because when they get their head into their feathers to preen them, they can't see you so they trust that you won't come up and grab them. Also they will feel comfortable lying down and taking naps in front of you, pecking at your feet, walking up to you and staring, etc. It makes taking photos easier too.

Damsel and the white siblings were the wildest peafowl I have had, and even they are nice and calm now.

 

[DylansMom]

Fine then I'm just trying to think of ways that won't stress them out and having to catch them over and over can stress them out. Which would be counter productive. Stress will kill birds.

The amount of stress you cause a bird by catching it and quickly and efficiently dosing it with wormer is not enough to kill a healthy bird. I do it several times a year with un-imprinted untamed birds. How old is your oldest bird @Birdrain92 ? My oldest are hens and they are 19 and 20 something, and unless you start properly medicating your birds you will never have any that live that long. I have caught these birds at least twice a year for almost their entire lives and now that they are somewhat elderly I have to catch them more often because older Peas often need their beaks trimmed and their nails clipped. My Loud Pied male is not at all tame and is over 10 years old now, He won't even preen his train feathers so every spring we catch him and hubby bear hugs him while I run a slicker brush over his tail to break up the keratin sheath on his feathers, then we clip his beak and his toenails and pretty him up for the ladies. Takes about 15 minutes, and he's never died of the stress, he doesn't like it, but he has survived it for quite a few years. Just caught his girlfriend wormed her, clipped her nails and sprayed blue kote on her wings.... she survived. Internal parasites will kill a bird a lot faster than the stress of proper handling and medicating will.

Harley


Harley's train in need of preening, that's hubby in back holding the bird in a bear hug as I prepare to brush the train feathers.


The stress does not kill him and after 3 days he has totally forgotten about it and is in the front of the line for treats.

 

[DylansMom]

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and venture that I am 98% certain that their sheep will also not be bitten by werewolves while they are on the preventative garlic. Since there's not as much history, I'm only going to say I'm 90% sure that the goats will also not be bitten by werewolves while eating the pumpkin seeds.

But it may depend on the phase of the moon.

Don't be silly Peas! We all KNOW garlic only works on Vampires not Werewolves!

 

[DylansMom]

I have the Necropsy papers with me and if it was histomoniasis they would list it. It was done by a vet. It says Enterocolitis, and Hepatitis.

Enterocolitis is not a disease, it is a symptom of something else. Ask your vet what sort of infection/infestations would cause this symptom to occur along with Hepatitis.

 

[zazouse]

Fine then I'm just trying to think of ways that won't stress them out and having to catch them over and over can stress them out. Which would be counter productive. Stress will kill birds.

I still don't understand why you have to catch the birds, heck ain't all but one of your birds handled anyhow?
Long ago i posted how i wormed my peas either using scrambled eggs with 5 minute oats or just mixing a batch of meds in a water container and putting feed in the reservoir threw the day till all the water was gone.
i also figured that just 3 cc of safeguard in a gallon of water was not going to properly worm 15 peas in a pen if it takes 1cc pr 10 pounds of body weight so i adjusted the amount of wormer to the amount of peas i had to worm.

I start all my babies on wet feed now, they love it and i know they are getting enough liquids plus i can add meds and vitamins if i feel the need