What would you recommend, buying adults or buying chicks?

[Choctaw Valley Farm]

24% is good enough any higher and they could start having leg problems (to much protein) if it isn't medicated mix some of your chick starter with it, we do it all the time and it will not hurt them.

To worm use Safe Guard for Goats 3 to 4 cc to 1 gallon of water for 3 days changing out every day then repeat in one month.

You will want to keep all new birds from your main flock for about a month just in case they have something you do not want it to spread to your flock. If you have older males and put new older males together they will fight and sometimes the hens can be worse then the males, so if you add new older birds it is always best to move everyone at one time to a new pen.

Good luck and enjoy.

 

[ranit]

I agree that most need to be wormed before a year. I have also been told they are very susceptible to cocciidiosis. Corid (amprolium) works good for this. Medicated started usually has this. If using unmedicated feed you can buy the liquid and mix in their water.

Although it is sometimes necessary, also be careful when giving medication directly into the mouth. Give slowly a few drops at at time so they don't asperate any into their lungs.

 

[ChickenHwk]

Ok, thanks my other three are still living so I must have caught the problem before it spread to the others. I still have them on dewormer so hopefully it is doing the trick. Thanks for all the advice I will keep themon a strict schedule at least until they reach a year old. Lets hope they reach that age...

I'll try to be more careful nextime when I am trying to give them antibiotics, I just poured it down his throat as a last attempt to help him out, but I failed anyways. Unfortunately I didn't have a dropper at the time...

Thanks,

 

[SuperPeacockman]

No offense but might have over dosed him with antibiotics. We use feed with 18% protein but to much protein will not cause problems like yours. Before peafowl reach full size they are extremely susceptible to diseases, it could have been anything. The weight loss makes it sound like a parasite like a worm but it could be bacteria, a virus, anything. Wormers are not always good for peachicks.

 

[ChickenHwk]

I guess you can never tell until it is too late. I worked hard to keep them alive and they die on me anyways. This spring I might invest in an adult pair, maybe this might be an easier start for me than raising peachicks. Now that I know a little more about their needs...

If anybody has any for sale just let me know, I probably wouldn't buy until this spring though.

 

[deerman]

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Did they all die ? Have peafowl most of the time for sale,

 

[chickenzoo]

Sounds like worms, like others have mentioned. Peachicks are very susceptible to worms & coccidia. I keep all peachicks on wire until 3-4 months at which I start worming them as soon as they are on ground. Be careful with putting hay down, peachicks swallow everything - little gultions, and I have had them become impacted with hay, horse hair, string, flight netting etc... in which dosing them with oil in feed & water helps it pass. When giving vitamins, electrolytes to a very ill bird, i typically draw up a syringe of 1/2 water, 1/2 vitamin etc... and inject 3cc or so just under skin where neck & back meet a few times daily depending on weight of bird. They absorb the liquid into the body and no chance of aspiration. Many ill birds have trouble swallowing. Baby Parrot hand feeding formula mixed thick and given by syringe or tube fed is good for helping ill birds rebound, also can sprinkle on food if they are eating still. Scrambled eggs is also good.

 

[ChickenHwk]

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Did they all die ? Have peafowl most of the time for sale,

No, they didn't all die but I am interested in buying an adult pair. What do you have?

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

No, they didn't all die but I am interested in buying an adult pair.

Are they gaining weight now? We had one of our white peahens that was looking droopy a few weeks ago. I always worm in the fall so that wasn't it, no mites, normal looking poo, just not eating very much. In chickens and turkeys I just call it failure to thrive and cull. With the white pea's I only have 2 hens at this point so that wasn't an option. I found before that pea's love hard boiled egg yokes so I was giving her them every day and she was eating all I gave but she still wasn't eating much feed. We were at Tractor Supply last weekend and I picked up a bag of flock raiser. I remembered it had a kind of sweet smell (our regular feed comes from a local mill and doesn't) and sure enough she went to town on that. For whatever reason she went off the feed and didn't go back? But from the egg yokes and changing feed she seems to be bouncing back. Maybe that will help yours.

Steve​

 

[ChickenHwk]

The other three birds didn't get whatever the ONLY MALE I HAD, got. He was the only one that lost weight (and the only one that died), the others were fine. I have heard that feeding birds hardboiled eggs helps them in one way or another, I really don't know... I might try that as well just to give them an extra boost of protein.

Thanks, Steve

Deerman, I might be interested in buying a pair or trio of adults from you, what do you have for sale?