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Subject: Help in preparing for wild peachicks

Author:
Donna

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Date Posted: 14:39:34 03/01/09 Sun

We have had a male and female India Blue in a pen for the last six months, only to help raise the Peacock population in our neighbor. There were quite a few when we moved in, roaming free, but they all disappeared except for one female. So we got her a male so she wouldn't be lonely and are hoping for babies so we can release them. Do you know if we should be concerned about the male in the same pen once they've hatched? Also, we live in San Diego, CA, and have a dirt floor with lots of alfalfa on top of it for them. There have been quite a few peachicks in the past so I wasn't so concerned about the newborns being in the pen. Should I be?

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Author:
Donna
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Date Posted: 14:47:36 03/01/09 Sun

>We have had a male and female India Blue in a pen for
>the last six months, only to help raise the Peacock
>population in our neighbor. There were quite a few
>when we moved in, roaming free, but they all
>disappeared except for one female. So we got her a
>male so she wouldn't be lonely and are hoping for
>babies so we can release them. Do you know if we
>should be concerned about the male in the same pen
>once they've hatched? Also, we live in San Diego, CA,
>and have a dirt floor with lots of alfalfa on top of
>it for them. There have been quite a few peachicks in
>the past so I wasn't so concerned about the newborns
>being in the pen. Should I be?

[> [> Subject: Re: Help in preparing for wild peachicks

Author:
Donna
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Date Posted: 18:21:36 03/03/09 Tue

Hello, thank you for the information. The neighborhood has all agreed to try to increase the population again. The peacocks that were here before were the eighth generation. We did ask neighbors' feelings about it before we spent the money on the pen. They are pleased and have even started a waiting list for the ones who want their own once the babies are ready. Even the ones who were indifferent before say they miss them and are anxious to have them walking around again.

We do have hardware cloth doubled around the enclosed pen so as to keep unwanted coyotes and the like out.

Since we are not raising them for any profit, just the raise their population, would the mother take in the chicks if we raised them in a different location and then gave them back to her when they were stronger.

Also, do you have any suggestions about what to feed them?

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CARING FOR PEACHICKS

Author:
D C T --friendly poultry orthopedist
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Date Posted: 20:44:06 03/03/09 Tue

You are welcome.
I feed my peachicks chick starter medicated with Amprolium
to prevent coccidiosis. If the peachicks are separated from
their mother for even a few days whe will forget them and
might kill them if they are brought back.
When chicks of any species hatch it is vital for them to
bond with their mother as soon as they are able to come out
from under her (about a day old)
When hand raising peachicks I have had some of them that
bonded with me

[> [> Subject: Re: Help in preparing for wild peachicks
Author: Donna [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 20:59:45 03/03/09 Tue Thank you very much. That is very helpful.

[> [> [> Subject: YOU ARE WELCOME
Author: D C T --friendly poultry orthopedist [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 18:58:36 03/04/09 Wed I exist to serve..... except when I am fighting "spammers"

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Re: Help in preparing for wild peachicks

Author:
D C T --friendly poultry orthopedist
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Date Posted: 20:25:31 03/01/09 Sun

Perhaps there are people in your neighborhood who do NOT
like free roaming peafowls and are getting rid of them.
My own peafowls are kept penned at ALL times because there
are predators in nearby woods that would like to eat peafowl
at my expense.
I prefer to not have the peacock with the family. In fact
most of the time I keep peachicks in a warm brooder with NO
mother.
The first time I had a peahen raising her own peachicks
one of them popped out through the 2"x4" dogwire and if I
had not been there to put it back and make some changes to
the pen to prevent that....this peachick could have been
lost or killed