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] Date Posted:20:06:47 05/10/09 Sun
My glorious white spalding, EVEREST, is the son of the green
spalding, Neverland the Insane. Poor Neverland died just
before he was twelve having mated only once--acidentally
while trying to kill a peahen named Malpo. I rescued
Malpo and in the following week she laid three fertile eggs.
I was delighted when one of the peachicks was white and
named him for that hard to reach mountain peak, Everest.
I was concerned that Everest might inherit his father's
unfortunate behavior towards peahens but for several years
he treated peahens as mates and just directed his violence
towards his keeper which is quite normal for my spaldings!!!
But this year Everest seems to be having a midlife crisis.
Last week I heard sounds of violence in the pen and had
to drag Everest out of the way and then pull D'white
peahen out from behind the coop door where she was trying to
dodge the attack. With peahen under my arm I did a hasty
retreat to another pen.
None of the eggs that I have collected in Everest's pen
have been fertile this year. Pen shared with two white
peahens and a green one. I think that I will have to remove
the second white peahen, too....and maybe the green one...
once a peacock decides that he does not like a peahen he
does NOT change his mind about that...but sometimes he will
accept a different one.
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Date Posted:14:10:20 05/13/09 Wed
Sorry to hear about your peacock madness. Your post did make me have a little laugh...in that the only time Neverland mated, it was accidental and he was actually trying to kill the peahen! Must've got oeuvre excited! (little egg joke there...lol)
Must be nice to have so many birds. I'm currently missing a peahen, too early for her to be sitting on eggs...wonder where she is?? Hope the fox hasn't got her...
Date Posted:02:53:22 05/14/09 Thu
Hi Maxie, did you see my note attached to your post: bonkers peahen? What happended to your cockerell with the broken leg? Did he survive? I currently have a friend whose peacock is fighting with her cockerel too. Do people think this is normal or unusual?. He has a peahen - but is just obsessed with fighting her cockerell and ignores his hen! Hope you find you peahen - how long has she been missing?
My cockerel died unfortunately, but I have another two cockerels (and more on the way, worst luck) so although it was sad, it wasn't the end of the world.
Colin the peacock really hates one of the remaining cockerels. Every so often he gets really worked up and chases the cockerel round the garden incessantly and won't give up. Things are ok now, more settled, but he doesn't like certain boy birds! :)
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D C T --friendly poultry orthopedist
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Date Posted:20:30:37 05/14/09 Thu
Maxie,
I do not know where you are but here in Georgia USA I have
several peahens that are indeed setting on eggs in their
secure pens. I can NOT let my peafowls free range due to
varmints (predators) that wish to dine on poultry at my
expense.
Actually I have five peachicks in my brooders right now.
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I have friends over twentyfive miles from me that did let
their peafowls free range. This worked OK and their peahen
actually raised some peachicks but then the peacock
vanished without a trace. They think that he was stolen
and could be right but then it may just be the work of a
coyote or bobcat
Date Posted:02:18:31 05/15/09 Fri
Goodness!!! i can think of easier things to steal than a peacock!!!!! DCT - Congratulations on your first five chicks.
Date Posted:06:08:29 05/23/09 Sat
Well, my peahen came back but she's only here intermittently. Funny because she's ALWAYS been with the other peahen for her whole life...they walk round in a pair.
Oh! Really weirdly - I was driving out of our front gate and ran over something verrry strange on the drive. It was too late to stop me going over it, but I got out to check. It was a bizarre, leathery peahen egg. No shell, just the kind of leathery inner layer with a big yolk (now splattered up the drive) What does that mean? Eggs with no shells? Why on the drive??
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D C T --friendly poultry orthopedist
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Date Posted:19:06:30 05/23/09 Sat
Soft shelled eggs can be caused by lack of calcium.
I supply my peahens with oyster shell (crushed) that can be
purchased at feed stores.
Or sometimes a peahen's system gets out of rythem and her
egg gets layed before the calcium layer is added.
Sometimes a peahen is not able to lay her soft shelled egg
and may die trying
Date Posted:02:32:35 05/24/09 Sun
THanks DCT. I'm lucky that she didn't die trying then. I do have some oyster shell somewhere, but now I just give my bantams their own eggshells, microwaved and crushed. They seem to like them. :)
The peafowl are all free-range, but I'll remember to put some crushed eggshells down for them when they turn up. Thanks for your help. xx
PEACOCK INHERITS INSANITY
Re: Missing Peahen
SOFT SHELLED EGG