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We have been treating one of our hens Dame Shirley Bassey for bumblefoot, for the second time (although we aren’t convinced we got all of the abscess/pus out the first time) She is around 4 years old now, but we are also wondering if perhaps she also has a case of scaly leg mites also...

Yesterday we found this little baby in amongst our chickens and peacock. We don’t have a clue how it got there, all we can think is someone had seen it alone and put it through our fence. It was very lively yesterday and we fed it with some hand feed and water. This morning we thought it was...

@casportpony not sure if you can come to my rescue again? Blue has been very healthy since the last time you helped me with his respiratory problems. Yesterday however Blue seems to have taken a downturn, I don’t think it is respiratory, his poop is white and runny and he is refusing to eat and...

Yesterday morning when checking on my 6 month old peafowl that he had a white bubbly discharge from his eyes, his right side worse than his left and a slight mucus discharge from his nostrils. I cleaned his eyes and beak, making sure not to cross contaminate. Went to visit him this morning and...

So I’ve noticed over the last month, more severely my hen has been losing her neck feathers, she also has been preening a lot. I’m not sure whether she’s molting, being bullied(as I think she’s quite old, as I don’t think they were honest with me when I got her) or whether she has some kind of...

So about a month ago I had no clue what I was doing trying to raise a peachick. I wanted to know if I had a boy or a girl, I know it’s very difficult to sex a peachick so young, it seemed that consensus was it was a male. I’m still not sure, the more I look the less convinced I am of what gender...

So... New to the whole Peafowl thing, I have my little baby separated from my chickens, with his own house and run but in the same enclosure. When I go in to the chicken enclosure, the peachick seems to get very distressed that I’m there and appears to be frantically trying to escape it’s run...

Could someone please help me identify the gender of my new Peachick. We were hoping for a cock, but a hen will be just as nice as we will be raising it from young. I’ve tried looking at other threads but one minute I think cock the next hen. So as a novice, if someone more seasoned could shed...