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I just had to share this here. We had a rare display of the aurora borealis here last night. The peafowl had a lovely view.

My young peafowl are having some sort of illness and the treatments I've tried so far aren't working on the worst affected. At first, I thought they were suffering with the cold. For the past while we have had a very cold spell here and it seems to have been hard on my 2 year olds. It's...

After 8 years of keeping peafowl, we had our first loss today. It was sudden and a bit of a shock. He was just 2 years old, one of the ten peachicks I posted a lot about when they hatched 2 years ago. We watch the birds so closely every day and never saw anything wrong so I feel awful for...

One of my Australorps suddenly dropped dead on Friday with no warning. We decided to have a look inside for learning purposes and to try to figure out what was wrong with her, especially if it points to anything that may affect the rest of the flock. She was just a couple of weeks past 1 year...

I have 17 Bresse and 5 Light Sussex chicks who will all be 5 weeks old tomorrow. I hatched them all from my own birds with no losses in the hatch and perfect health so far. One chick had mild splayed leg when it hatched and was in hobbles for 2 days but was fine. I never noticed any other leg...

@TudyBOT, how up to date is your information on the current outbreak of avian influenza? Can I request for you to automatically post updates to this thread if there are new outbreaks in my location?

Edit: I posted this earlier. Since then, I've been observing him all day. I've been reading a lot about Marek's disease and I'm very worried. I had ruled out illness because there were no other symptoms and because I had seen fighting yesterday. If anyone can give any insight, I'd appreciate it...

Can anyone please help sex these eight Australorp chicks? They will be 6 weeks old tomorrow. They are all named after their leg band colours, apart from the one called Kari. White made himself known at about 3 weeks and I'm fairly sure green and yellow are cockerels as well but would love...

I have a little La Bresse Chick, 4 days old (almost 5 days), that has something wrong with its digestion. It had been eating and drinking normally like the others and was filling its crop normally up until about 36 hours ago. It was one of two chicks that hatched a lot later than the others...

I'm trying to figure out the best way to keep a small flock of multiple breeds including roosters for each breed so I can keep breeding them myself. I don't want lots of birds because I have no interest in selling eggs, chicks or anything else so I only want enough to fill our family's needs...

I have 5 Light Sussex and 8 Australorp chicks that were hatched together 5 weeks ago. The Light Sussex chicks' beaks and combs are starting to turn black. I've attached a photo of one of them but they are all similar. Is this normal for this breed? Or are they not pure Light Sussex? Or is there...

I have electric poultry netting around my coop and I want to run power to my chicks' electric heat plate so they can move outside as they are outgrowing their indoor brooder. They only really need the heat plate now at night time and the coop itself is secure but I would like to keep the...

Please help! One of my 3 week old Light Sussex chicks has sustained this awful toe injury. It looks like the toenail is hanging off to one side and I'm not sure what that other toenail-shaped part is that's protruding. Is it bone? I bathed its foot in salt water and applied cornflour to stop...

I bought this incubator brand new just 2 months ago and have just started my second lot of eggs. After the first hatch, I was so careful to follow the manufacturer instructions for cleaning it. I basically followed this video exactly and also vacuumed carefully with a small brush attachment as...

I asked about this in the incubation + hatching forum but didn't get much response. I think it's relevant here because it's my peafowl I want to protect and I wonder if people here might understand my concerns about biosecurity, since we are keeping valuable birds. Do any of you know the actual...

It's my first time hatching! I'm using the Brinsea Maxi 24 EX. I started with 24 eggs (12 Light Sussex and 12 Australorp) and now I have 13 eggs in total still alive on day 18. Some of them have large air cells and others look very small to me compared to the diagrams I've seen online. I'm so...

One of my lovely peahens, Meena, is suddenly not quite right today. She's only 10 months old so still a peachick really. I noticed today that she seemed to be just standing around a lot holding one of her eyes closed. Every time I went to get a closer look she opened it up and acted normal so...

I've read that it's possible for Mycoplasma infections to be transmitted vertically from infected hens via their eggs but I can't seem to find any statistics about the odds of this happening. Does anyone know what the actual risk is? Does the hen need to be actively infectious at the time in...

One of my 7 month old male peachicks has escaped. This morning we found a big hole in the aviary and a peachick missing. We couldn't quite figure out what had happened but we thought a fox must have broken in and gotten him because we've seen several foxes around here recently. We were out...

I think I've figured out the sexing for my ordinary IBs thanks to the many helpful threads on here already. I'm fairly sure I have 4 peahens and 5 peacocks. I have no idea about my Black Shoulder, though. Sorry these photos aren't great but I've included several so hopefully someone may be...