Iona - Thank you I want the peas to get old with me... Donna ... expenisve bag of dirt. ... nail to open the beak and then stick my finger is so it stays open ...
If any of you have a Winn-Dixie grocery store near you they have a special this week on an Octagon Gazebo for 19.99!!!! It is white and quite pretty. I am ...
Hi Chris, The Midnights are very dark. They morphed out of the BS. My males neck is like a navy blue black, his train feathers are dark and have a coppery...
Hi,Chris. You guessed right. My confusing looking aviary is round. You asked me to give details on how it is put together. The aviary is round because a circle...
My site is here: http://kickingthorn.com/arkansaspeafowl I am currently working on some new pens, more pictures will be posted this week on where I am with it....
Hi again Cindy, If you want to raise the roof (so to speak) :-) there are several things you can do. You can make T posts like what you'd put up to hang...
I checked the UPA web site and didn't see anything about a hen being egg bound.. So I'll ask you guys :-) I have never had a hen get egg bound. At what point...
Hi Kathleen, When Bella got eggbound, it was obvious to us that something was seriously wrong. Initially, we thought droopy wings - getting ready to lay etc....
Sally, what a great idea! I am so glad you suggested painting the shade cloth with thick roof fiber coating to make the shelter part. That I can do with girl...
Sally, what a great idea! I am so glad you suggested painting the shade cloth with thick roof fiber coating to make the shelter part. That I can do with girl...
You are welcome and YES you can (wink) down here (in FL.) it gets very very hot and even the flea market folks can't stand it so they make their shelters with...
... I was worried about my BS hen as she has been like that for a couple weeks and sorely overdue to start laying, she FINALLY laid an egg last night and no ...
... Hi Sally - thanks for the info. I thought the old boxes would work but "upon closer inspection" they are too old and beat up. Now, I need to figure out...
I have straw on the floors of the coop part of the chicken runs and my hens were just laying eggs on the straw, which is exactly what my pheasants are doing...
I brought home 6 11 week old chickens and put them inside the animal minibarn with the peas. To my horror, BOTH of them were pecking at the chickens when I...
I'ts going to be 30 here tonight, Emily, and even the silkies are outside, along with everything else. The peas were out when it was in the upper 20s. I would...
I was going to look at this site today but forgot to. I found the site in the Peafowl today magazine. It really sounds neat. I did talk to the guy on the...
Hey Sal Pal. Sure I'll take the midnight eggs. :-) The white hen never did produce an egg last night. If she acts normal again today I'll leave her alone....
Hi Em, One of my friends went out to one of the dept. stores and purchased some of those plastic stack bins and they worked out GREAT (not the drawers but the...
Hi Iona, I had previously written down your formula for worming peafowl as 1 1/2 cc Ivermectin by mouth every 3 months and if signs of worms then every six...
I got a new Peacock and don't know if I should worm him as a precautionary measure or not. I don't know if he has been wormed recently or not. Will it hurt if...
Well........no eggs yet!!! They certainly are doing their thing, but no eggs! I am beginning to feel left out here! Anyone else live in Minessota? Or up...
If the bird didn't die you didn't over dose, but now that you know the proper dosage to give orally you can cut down on the amount of ivermectin you use and...
LOL Jennifer, I SOOOOOO know what you mean, however, there is an old saying (and I feel old and feel like saying it) "When the fruit is ripe, it will fall...
If I use this formula on chickens, how long do we wait before we can eat the eggs? ... the proper dosage to give orally you can cut down on the amount of ...
I usually don't worm my hens when they are laying, however, if you do I would withhold eating them at least the same amount of days as withholding for meat ...
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