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Well now, in a journal about a week ago I said that I was "getting a new kind of pet not too different from something I already have" what I did not expect when I wrote that was to come home with THREE new kinds of pets... and by that I mean... less than half of these are baby chickens!
Go ahead, guess what the other 3 kinds of birds are.
EDIT: okay since they have all been guesses I can reveal this is a cage full of chickens, ring neck pheasants, pearl guineas and a turkey.
(the little ones are like little baby chicken chicks but on caffeine help)
Go ahead, guess what the other 3 kinds of birds are.
EDIT: okay since they have all been guesses I can reveal this is a cage full of chickens, ring neck pheasants, pearl guineas and a turkey.
(the little ones are like little baby chicken chicks but on caffeine help)
Category All / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1257 x 1280px
File Size 376.2 kB
Well... I have ducks that think they are chickens. lol. my mom saw some Americana chicks that when adults they lay blue-green eggs (very pretty by the way) and decided for the laughs get some ducks and throw them in with the buffs (another breed of chickens we had at the time) and see how long dad notices.
O.o' oh my god that's what a turkey looks like as a baby O.O' wow sorry I've never was allowed to have chickens or any other feathered babies while living on the farm. Step Dad didn't want them anymore though we actually still had a chicken coop in our barn that we ended up using to store hay for the horses and birthing area for kittens...
Wonder if its going to become the new guard for your household.... I know they guard cause the wild ones we had around our place got very protective and refused to let kids get off the school bus somedays.
Wonder if its going to become the new guard for your household.... I know they guard cause the wild ones we had around our place got very protective and refused to let kids get off the school bus somedays.
Pheasants are really super difficult to tame down. I've only known a scarce handful that were tame, and the common factor among all of them was that they were raised individually and not with other birds. Good luck though. The turkey however will make a great pet so long as you make sure to handle him a bunch and make sure it associates your hands with good things (freeze-dried mealworms work great for that!).
I am hoping to have them at least "okay" with people if not super hand tame, like to where I can go in the aviary without them panicking and they understand I mean food is coming.
I have them with some bantam chicken chicks hoping that helps since I know how to "speak chicken" (I know the sounds mama hens make and chicks make to like say "here is food" "it is okay calm down" etc) and hopefully the pheasants will follow how the chickens react to me.
So far they are totally tame and treat me as a baby chicken would, and they respond to me just like chickens aside from being REALLY HYPER and wanting to CLIMB ALL OVER... only time will tell how much instincts will change that though.
(haha on the topic of taming them, totally TMI but I have one sleeping in my sports bra atm, I have learned it is the perfect incubator to hold a fussy sleepy chick. I felt totally strange about this till I watched this show about wild life rescue people and the one rehabilitator lady was keeping tiny baby skunks warm in her bra)
I have them with some bantam chicken chicks hoping that helps since I know how to "speak chicken" (I know the sounds mama hens make and chicks make to like say "here is food" "it is okay calm down" etc) and hopefully the pheasants will follow how the chickens react to me.
So far they are totally tame and treat me as a baby chicken would, and they respond to me just like chickens aside from being REALLY HYPER and wanting to CLIMB ALL OVER... only time will tell how much instincts will change that though.
(haha on the topic of taming them, totally TMI but I have one sleeping in my sports bra atm, I have learned it is the perfect incubator to hold a fussy sleepy chick. I felt totally strange about this till I watched this show about wild life rescue people and the one rehabilitator lady was keeping tiny baby skunks warm in her bra)
Heh. The amazing things we do for our baby peeps and critters! <3 I will be super-interested to see how your pheasant chicks turn out and if raising them with chicken chicks makes a difference in how tame they become. Domestic fowl are best pets. <3
Please do post some growing-up pictures! Pet chickens /turkeys / ducks / pheasants are the best!
Please do post some growing-up pictures! Pet chickens /turkeys / ducks / pheasants are the best!
Make sure you watch the turkey. They're notoriously bad about not knowing how to eat/drink. It's good that you have chicks in with it though, should be enough.
A friend of mine breeds turkeys and she hatches chicks just for the purpose of teaching the turkey poults how to eat/drink.
I've got muscovy sitting on eggs... should be hatching any day. That is, if the drake did his job and they didn't screw up brooding... First time for all parties involved. I don't expect a great hatch rate *laugh*
I've got 19 chickens as well Love my birdies. I'm waiting for 9 of them to start laying. Can't wait to see what I get.. could be dark brown, blue or olive eggs. The parents were in a mixed pen of Black Copper Marans and Ameraucana. They're beautiful girls.
I'm obsessed.
A friend of mine breeds turkeys and she hatches chicks just for the purpose of teaching the turkey poults how to eat/drink.
I've got muscovy sitting on eggs... should be hatching any day. That is, if the drake did his job and they didn't screw up brooding... First time for all parties involved. I don't expect a great hatch rate *laugh*
I've got 19 chickens as well Love my birdies. I'm waiting for 9 of them to start laying. Can't wait to see what I get.. could be dark brown, blue or olive eggs. The parents were in a mixed pen of Black Copper Marans and Ameraucana. They're beautiful girls.
I'm obsessed.
I did notice the dang thing at first like drowned itself drinking water, seems better off now. I had to separate my flock a bit, the guineas were viciously mistaking toes for grubs and the pheasants and chickens could not handle the abuse (no one got hurt but eeeek it is so awful to watch the guineas drag another chick around) so now it is the guineas and the turkey together.
I hear a layer of marbles or something will help with the "how do I drink water??" phase, so they don't fall in or I guess stick their heads too far in? I want to raise a couple chicks someday, buying grown hens is nice and fast to start laying, but they take forever to tame down far enough that I can pick them up without fuss (figure that's best for their health, as I can pick them up and check them over if they have problems). Plus...chicks!! <XD
I figured it out pretty quick, but I've worked with wildlife before so that's an unfair advantage. Lol.
One of my favorites were baby pheasants, but most of them were scared witless from dealing with the public(who have no idea how to take care of animals).
Take lots of pictures; they will grow up fast.
One of my favorites were baby pheasants, but most of them were scared witless from dealing with the public(who have no idea how to take care of animals).
Take lots of pictures; they will grow up fast.
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