#peachick

[is-the-image-ai]

I feel like I shouldn't even have to explain this one, but I keep seeing it passed around as a "peacock chick."

What even are those feet?

THIS IS WHAT A REAL PEACHICK LOOKS LIKE:

Verdict: AI-generated

[magistralucis]

@absolut--kurant!

Life is stressful right now. If you need a moment's rest, there is soft grass and blue sky here, and small peeping birds for company. Feel free to slow down to join them for a minute.

They are peachicks (baby peacocks and peahens), and their only worry is what their next treat will be. I've given them one of their favorite treats- their normal food with some water in it. They're simple creatures.

I hope you have an enjoyable day. Give yourself a little treat, too, for getting this far.

[kiame-sama]

Are Vil's pea chicks really fugly and horrible but it's like cute fugly and horrible?

Are they well behaved? Shsjksks

They are hideous, like any newly hatched bird is. Their stubby skin wings that have zero feathers, large dark eyes that can be seen through the translucent skin, completely bald, unable to open their eyes, unable to move without their parents aid, helpless, scrawny chubby limbed chicken winged nubby tailed chicks. They are cute in how hideous they are newly hatched, but their nestling feathers grow in quickly so they turn into puffballs and keep their fluffy plumage until they reach older adolescent years where their adult color feathers start to come in.

They behave for their Human parent, sure as hell not Vil. They are sassy with Vil and will sometimes refuse to let him feed them. He adores his peachicks and cherishes them, but they prefer the Human over Vil. Vil doesn't even get mad that they prefer the Human over him, because he also prefers the Human over everyone else.

[jpgcakezz]

Rest in Peace to @kedreeva's peacock Stan Lee 💚

The most resilient little peacock

[sassyhazelowl]

Egg time - this is the fullest my incubator has been all year so far. I've really scaled back on the hatching due to brooder restrictions and the fact that I straight up hate selling locally. Nightmare, like herding cats. Valley, Gambels, Pharaoh Celadon Coturnix, Mixed Flock Coturnix, rosetta/tibetian celadon coturnix and more valleys and a mystery (probably bantam chicken) egg on the side - it was in the quail cage so the guy gave it to me too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ the guy has old english games, so I suspect a hen snuck in there and laid it with the quail (who also laid their eggs by it - hilariously tiny button egg next to a chicken egg). Most of these potential chicks are already spoken for, although the pharaoh celadons are for me, and I intend to ask if I can have a few of the rosettas, as I am hatching them for someone else. I plan to add some buttons and more valleys from a local breeder for me as well (to replace the 15 or so buttons I sold and to add fresh blood into my valley flock next year).

[system-reset]

ough I love this small bird :)

appreciation post for what actual baby peafowl actually look like

[peafowl-arethe-best-birds]

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[catboyfurina]

Egg!

🐣

[kedreeva]

Did you know that peafowl are born with a full set of flight feathers? It only takes them 3-4 days to remove the sheaths and put a little length on them, and then they are capable of flight!

It's very obnoxious!

[mis-mcgifsten]

Those little topknots and tail feathers are utterly adorable. Wee peacocklets strutting about. AI goy nothing on reality.

Fucking hate ai bitches this shit is poisoning my search results just like that tumblr baby crow post fuck y'all for real

[kiame-sama]

Reader and vil meeting the newly hatched, very ugly, very raw looking chicks

Reader:….. they look just like there papa :)

Vil will actually cry and might overblot from that comment if he hears it.

[peafowl-arethe-best-birds]

ˢᵗᵃᵇᵇⁱⁿᵍ ᵖᵒˡⁱᶜᵉ ⁱˢ ⁿᵉᵛᵉʳ ʷʳᵒⁿᵍ

[zoe-oneesama]

Your Feelings Are Not a Burden.

Bonus Teenage Peachicks:

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[jaquitor]

not to be that guy but dont go watch this dude’s videos b/c of the pogface chicken, he does this all the time hatching clickbait “rare” birds and then posting a video a month later called “all my peachicks are dying :(((” with a photo of it as the thumbnail, like they’re some kind of daisy instead of a real living baby bird, because he didnt take care of them properly

epic chicken prank

[kedreeva]

So, about a week ago we had a pretty bad (LOUD and COLD) wind storm, and one of the 2024 babies hit her head on the roof of the coop when she spooked. I was anxious about the storm and so I checked the coop cameras before bed, just to make sure everyone made it up to the roosts and was doing ok with all the racket. I saw her on the ground and went out to see if I could get her up to snuggle with her family.

When I got out there, I found her braced on the ground with a bloody face, dazed and confused and mostly blind. I picked her up and carried her inside to see if she would survive the night.

She did, but it was rough. She could barely see, she couldn't stand up without falling over, she was clearly in pain. I weighed the risks, and decided giving her an anti-inflammatory painkiller was worth it. I tube fed her because she couldn't see to eat.

Toward the end of the first day, she could wobble to her feet, but she couldn't stay there without support. I tested her balance with a gentle nudge, and it wasn't great, but it was better than the first night or the morning. Warning for the video, because it's hard to watch.

Anyway, she remained in the house for a few more days, until her sight began to return better and she started showing signs of distress at being caged or approached. She still wasn't eating on her own, but she was calling/crying for her family and was liable to harm herself worse when feeding time came because she thought she could get through the wire cage. So she went back outside while the weather was nice. She's able to follow her moms and sister around, sleep with them on the perch, etc, even though she's not feeding herself again quite yet.

Which means that 2x a day, I make a mushy goop of bird food (soaked chow, vitamin drizzle, raw quail egg, and water) and I bring her in to tube it directly into her crop. She doesn't particularly fight me on it, which is both nice and not great.

But importantly, I always make a little too much (better than a little too little), so Bug gets to thieve the extra as a snack, and she is so excited about the watery gruel.

Anyway, keep the little hen in your thoughts. If I can get her to eat on her own again, I will probably look for someplace to give her a pet-only home that understands she's a lil brain damaged.

[kiame-sama]

I don’t care how short the phase is when the baby birds get their feathers, I’m knitting them sweaters because them being so Nakey would freak me out

Knit fast. Meanwhile, you and Vil have to switch off the continued incubation behavior and keep the nakey chicks warm with skin to fragile birdy skin contact since Chicks can't self-regulate heat.