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I was thinking about filling some empty feed bags with straw and putting them under the perch in the evening... but removing the perch seems the simpler option. It's easier to make good choices when that's the only option available. 😇

I think you are right. I just went out there and pulled the nails and took out the perch... Hopefully I'll get some intact eggs tomorrow. 🤞

I have a 6 year old hen who seems to be making a habit out of perch bombing her eggs this year. Three have bit the dust so far. She's never had a perch bomb other than her first year laying, so I'm not sure why she has decided to go rogue now. - She has a grass privacy screen up against one...

The eggs I bought this summer kinda blew my mind. She listed all the potential outcomes for each egg depending on what pen they came out of... with all the splits up-ing the chances of different colors. I don't gamble, but those eggs made me understand how gambling addictions start. 😅

The pied stuff can be confusing... it feels like you could take white and another color and get a mix like making a marbled cake out of two different types of batter... but it's kinda it's own thing. You need a bird with the pied pattern thrown into the mix. 🎂🦚😉

They love nice thick perches, especially the types that are natural tree branches cut to size. Mine often turn their noses up at my snug coops and prefer these high perches in the runs. They like lots of room to wander in their runs... I add things for enrichment, like different heights of...

India Blue x White will produce India Blues split to white. These will likely have a few white feather (usually at the tips of the wings or on the throat). Pied is a different allele on the white gene... I think chicks need a copy of both the white and pied genetics to exhibit the pied...

If this peacock was a hen, I'd be happy... I finally got a breeding age BS taupe peacock (my ultimate color fav). I've always figured it was good to try to breed them "true", but I bought eggs from a lady this summer who had these amazing pens with lots of splits and all these potential color...

I thought that might be the case as well. He seemed to be more into exotic pheasants. It's a neat peacock - I noticed the purple has some white flights, so hopefully he will be enjoyed by someone else wanting to play with the split white/pied he might be carrying. I've now gotten a bunch of...

That's what I thought when I first saw him... I didn't want to be rude, I guess. It was a swap, so not a huge deal. I figured the guy might have just caught the wrong bird.

Thanks! That's what I figured as soon as I saw him - I needed a sanity check, so thanks! 😆

I have some 2022 and 2023 peafowl for sale! 2022 1 India Blue split Midnight peacock 1 India Blue Black Shoulder split Midnight peacock 1 Cameo peahen 1 White peahen 2023 1 India Blue peacock 1 low% spaulding white (unsexed)

First two photos... I'm seeing a lot of heavy barring (male) in the foreground. Second photo, also looks kinda male- have to look at the feathers on the front of the neck. The males get this sort of busy, beige, vertical pattern - the female look more like crescent moons along the bottom of...

So I acquired this peacock from a gent who said it was a Violeta - but he looks very much like a purple to me! What do you guys think? I recently got a Violeta spaulding hen and her iridescence tone is kiiiinnndaaa different (but then again, she is spaulding and he is not, so... 🤷🏼‍♀️)...

I'm shocked at how different they all are... at first I thought they were all partridge and blue, but then I saw a darker grey, and then this orangey white, and these muted partridge pattern, and these lemony/blue patterns. Hatching these guys out is terribly, terribly addicting! :jumpy...