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Purple cock, Spalding BS cock, and likely Cameo hen. The last one is probably IB but the pic quality is poor, not sure why someone would send pics four months out of date, surely they look much different now.

Can you post a picture of the bird and a close up of the eye?

I suspect both parents are Purple and so is the chick.

Would you happen to know what color the Black Shoulder Silver Pied hen is? It looks like either Cameo or Peach but could be something else. I doubt the White cock is the daddy but not impossible.

I have had broken lower legs on three birds and had the vet cast the first one and I did the other two. The thigh is a whole different ball of string that I would not attempt. Birds bones will heal in a short time, two to three weeks and the cast can come off. The problem with immobilizing a...

If you will post a picture of the hens leg we should confirm that is what you are dealing with before you put her down.

If you can find some pea eggs local or even turkey eggs I would switch them out for her unfertilized eggs. If not I would pull the eggs as she is in a position for being taken by a predator unnecessarily.

What you see that looks dislocated is actually called a 'blown hock'. It is a torn ligament that should be holding the leg straight but since it is torn off the bone it allows the leg to rotate out away from the bird. That will not repair itself nor is it repairable without expensive surgery...

Splints are hard to stabilize, use cast material but don't make it too heavy. The cast can be removed in three weeks.

What are the parents?

The reason peafowl are expensive is because peas are so damn hard to hatch. The dirty little secret with large scale peafowl breeders is that if they get a 40% hatch rate they are ecstatic. All eggs are fertile but not all of the eggs are fertilized, however most are and will start. Shipped...

If you can figure out why any female does what she does you are way smarter than 99% of us. There could be a whole host of reasons, internal health problems comes to mind first. Environment, acceptance of the cock, nutrition, not breeding because of something outside of the pen like another...

Ask again in a month. They carry an unknown white gene from the description of the parents not showing white feathers it is likely the chicks have a split to Pied or White. If one parent was Dark Pied it passed one Pied gene or if the parent was split to White it passed one White gene making...

Not likely Indigo as they are still fairly rare, more likely India Blue Pied and or split Pied or White.

Yes they do.

A combination of peat moss, dirt, and wood ash is very good. I see no reason to exclude DE from the mix, you just don't want it to be the main ingredient.

The White is probably a hen.

I assume your humidity is too high causing the chick to either have too little room in the egg to swing its head and chip out or drown in excess fluid. Do some of them have their beak sticking out of the shell? That is a good indication. The better humidity control will help but you will...

With two cocks and three hens there is a good chance the eggs are not getting fertilized, crack a few open and see if they are. I use old bee boxes and make nests with hay in a safe area of the pen and place the eggs in the box. Each egg is dated and removed after they are ten days old...