WAAAHHH! Lost my peachick!!!!

[ebonyann]

I only had two peachicks hatch out of my seven eggs and I was hoping beyond hope that I might get lucky with a boy and a girl. But now one of them managed to find one measly little hole in the pen and got out and got found by a dog. Now I only have one little peachick left. I am so depressed!!

I don't know what to do now. Maybe next year I can afford a pair or something but I guess I have had it for this year

 

[happytxchick]

I'm so sorry for your loss. How upsetting!

 

[chickenzoo]

I'm so sorry....

Perhaps you will find someone in your area with too many peachicks?
You can sex Indian Blues by their flight feathers, even as chicks.

 

[ebonyann]

No, the only thing we have around here is wild peacocks. No one else is peahappy like us I guess. I tried so hard to find local eggs so I wouldn't have to ship them with the way our post office has been abusing our packages, or some peachicks. I was even willing to buy a yearling pair or something but I dread having to ship them either. Oh well, I will just have to see what comes

 

[chickenzoo]

Well if you ever head to Florida on Vacation, I just hatched out nine more.....

I hope you find some when you least expect it. ....Put out some wild peacock traps.... hehe

 

[bantiesrule]

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Sorry for your loss, hope you can find another one.

Don't mean to high-jack your link, but how do you sex them by their feathers?

 

[ebonyann]

High jacking is fine. I wouldn't mind finding out what the one I have left is. Maybe I should post a pic of him.

I would put a trap, but all the peafowl around here are on someones private property and even though they aren't breeding them, they are totally against giving any of them up.

 

[fasbendera]

So sad. I am jealous. No peacocks around here and I can't justify the $50+ for a chick they get around here.

 

[chickenzoo]

On Indian blues, the males will have redish brown flight feathers w/ little spotting on them. Females will have a darker brown with more blackish spotting on their flights. Other breeds are hard to sex until older...........

 

[bantiesrule]

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Thanks!