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Subject: Re: Peahen leaves the nest

Author:
Gloria

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Date Posted: 20:45:44 07/24/08 Thu
In reply to: Janet 's message, "Peahen leaves the nest" on 09:58:46 06/23/08 Mon

>Neighborhood has a bunch of peafowl who have lived
>here for years-- and thrive. A penhen nested in my
>fenced back yard this spring and 2 peachicks hatched 3
>weeks ago. Plenty of bugs/worms in my backyard... I
>supplemented with wild bird seed & water. Mama has
>pretty well scoured the premises... wonder if there's
>enough food for her here.
>Then, this AM, I watched her take off, leaving her
>chicks for the 1st time -- up to the roof and onto the
>front lawn. She sat there for awhile, then took off.
>That was over 4 hours ago (keep in mind the peafowl
>roam our gated community freely). Would a mother
>leave her chicks for that long at 3 weeks of age?
>Needless to say, they are frantic. Any ideas?
>
>Janet
We have a penhen who nested on the ground in long grass. Tonight when I came home she was gone and I saw two of her four eggs broken a short distance from the nest. Can't see what happened to the other two eggs. Any thoughts?

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Author: helen [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 04:06:04 07/26/08 Sat Janet and Gloria just putting you back above the spam - and just wanting an update,...what happened?

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Author:
gardner
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Date Posted: 09:27:28 07/30/08 Wed

Did the broken eggs look empty? like a chick may have been hatched?
I know with my free ranging peahens... usually when they sit on a nest, and their chicks hatch - I find the peahen a bit away from the nest with her chicks in tow.
I go check the nest and usually two or three of the four hatched egg shells are gone. No evidence of them anywhere. I just assumed the peahen ate the empty shell herself.

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Author:
Janet
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Date Posted: 10:09:03 08/19/08 Tue

>Janet and Gloria just putting you back above the spam
>- and just wanting an update,...what happened?

Here we are in August. The "adoptive" mother (who originally had one chick of her own) is still with my two "abandoned" chicks. Her slightly younger chick disappeared shortly after she adopted "mine." Interesting (!!) update. The mother of the adopted chicks returned, and reunited with her chicks. She and "auntie" have those 2 chicks in tow... so they now have 2 mothers.

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Re: Peahen leaves the nest

Author:
D C T --friendly poultry orthopedist
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Date Posted: 09:09:51 07/29/08 Tue

>We have a penhen who nested on the ground in long
>grass. Tonight when I came home she was gone and I
>saw two of her four eggs broken a short distance from
>the nest. Can't see what happened to the other two
>eggs. Any thoughts?
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Yes, but NOT happy ones.
If a peahen and her eggs are not in a secure pen there are
all sorts of varmints (predators) that will take advantage
of the situation. I hope that this peahen escaped with her
life. If there were no feathers there is some hope of that.
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Even a well fed pet dog may eat eggs or kill poultry