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You say pretty escape proof....... door latch hole???? between roof and rafters???? under the door??? You need to go over every inch before you think of getting more. Even a tiny tiny, hole will let say a brown snake in and out. I have seen the fattest tiger snake ever squeeze through a 5cm crack under our house. He flattened himself. I have seen a brown snake trying every hole in the door wire of the pea aviary. I "relocated" him before he got up the the wire of the pen because he would have fitted throught that. My guess is it is a smaller snake and he is still in there or he can squeeze between cracks. the chicks were still pretty tiny weren't they??? Is it remotely possible the guinea pigs ate it??? Or it died and the chooks ate it?? I am just trying every suggestion. Good luck. Pam


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Hi Ajackson, firstly sorry about your Peachicks. What size wire do you use on the pens (the diameter of the wire) Do you any Mouse holes in the pen? These are used by snakes. IF the Peachicks didn't get out of the pens then almost certainly a Snake got in. We use 1/2 inch weld mesh wire on all Peachick Grower Pens including the entire roof and under the tin of the shelter & Floor (buried approx 1 foot) All doors have over lap heavy rubber seals so there are no small gaps. As Pam wrote snakes can get in the smallest hole and can get out even with a full belly they simple crush the body by contracting.


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Hi AJackson. In the post I said 5 cm that the tiger snake squeezed through. I meant 5 mm!!!! Half a cm (!!) and she/he was huge!!! I had to relocate that brown snake which I never do usually because he was absolutely determined to get in and get a chick. Cheers, Pam


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Hi guys, sorry i forgot about this thread. The wire is pretty small (i'll have to measure), but i've come to the conclusion that it must've been a snake as all these months later we found a carpet snake in our shed (which has since been relocated). Now i'm hopefully building a new enclosure with my dad but i think i'll get some golden pheasants, not quite ready to try with the peafowl yet.


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i love my goldens they are my best pheasants ;)


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Hi Alice. Gosh, you must have been so upset. I know the girl who wrote "The Permaculture Home Garden" Linda Woodrow always has trouble with carpet snakes . She is in Lismore, NSW, and she has to snake proof her chook domes. Don't give up on the peas though. They are so much fun. I would start with some slightly older ones, even a year old. If you hang in there sometimes people want to give away males as they are sick of them or they have too many, etc. I often get offers and have found homes for them. Cheers, Pam


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Thank you all so much for your helpful replies to what to feed the new hatchlings. We went on vacation--with no computer--and just returned last week. So here's update: the chicks are one-month old yesterday; still alive, and eating all the live moths and other insects we can catch for them, as well as mealy worms, and some of the starter you suggested. My landlord now has them in a large cage, but he's keeping them in the corncrib which is dark and probably rather hot. This doesn't seem healthy for them to me, but I guess it's safe. We now have a weasel to add to all the other predatory varmints around the place. Any ideas for how to take care of them at this stage? Will they ever learn to fly without their mother to teach them?

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Well that is fantastic news Peafowlfriend :-D :-D keep us posted. LooLoo :-D


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