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] Date Posted:12:32:00 04/25/08 Fri
In 2001 my daughter brought an Indian Blue male to the ranch.
Shasta has done well, and the one time he was ill in 2002, this board helped me right what our local vet could not.
This year, he again has had the drooped wing thing going on for the past two days, and yesterday, I saw he was walking like a man I know who has heart disease... slow and staggering.
I was told he was six years old when he arrived in 2001 so that makes him about 13 years old.
So my question is, how many years is a peacocks average life span?
Might this sound like a case of the dreaded WNV?
Should I worm him again this year and hope for the best?
Thank you all for your kind responses and consideration.
DCT- you're the best!
p.s. has anyone heard from Granny Pat?
Love to all,
Sheila
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[> Subject: Re: How OLD is an OLD Peacock?
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D C T --friendly poultry orthopedist
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Date Posted:07:54:53 04/26/08 Sat
Sheila,
Flattery will get you nowhere!!!!
To get really good advice on health matters find the UPA
forum. Go to their website and find the link to this forum.
www.peafowl.org
or if you want me to e-mail you the link to this the forum
e-mail me putting "POULTRY" in subject line to avoid getting
lost in the spam --my e-mail address is
townsend@pineland.net
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OK, how old do they get?--have read that they can live
thirty or even many more years. I have two males that were
hatched in 1989 and one that I bought at sale that year
who looked about two years old then. I have a female
hatched in summer of 1990. Her sister, the one that got
male plumage, died a few weeks ago. She had blockage and
impaction in oviduct
Re: How OLD is an OLD Peacock?