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Sorry to hear of the trying times. Hope your husband feels better soon!

6 is a cameo, we have his twin here. 7 and 8 are opal, but not black shoulder.

These guys have some great pics and some good articles: http://www.hopkinslivestock.com/Peafowl%20Pictures.htm

Peacocks (during mating season) will attack their reflections in dark, shiny cars. Here's some photographic evidence for ya!

The last picture looks like that chick may have an opal parent. Here's a pic of our pure opal cock when he was a baby:

On the other hand, perhaps it's not enough jarring. If you think about natural incubation, the hen is regularly turning her eggs by kicking them around with her feet, and knocking them together. That's multiple hits per day, for 26 to 30 days. But most chicks hatch this way. I think most late...

Excellent work! The one thing I've learned the hard way about building cages, is to not build them so deep that I can't grab a hold of the little buggers without having to climb in the cage to retrieve them from the far back corners!

Thanks for all the responses. So Arbor, will there be any external identification of white in the first generation? (IB to silver pied mating) Would all, some, or none of the 1st gen show white eyes, white throats, white flights, etc.? This is a great chart that I use, from Cox Fowl Farm...

We have a giant roll of woven black garden fabric that we use. It allows some air to pass through, but birds can't see through it. You can buy it at Lowes or Home Depot in 4' x 50 or 100' rolls. Easy to staple it to your wooden posts, or use roofing nails.

Depends on your motivation for having peachicks. If you just like seeing the mother take care of the babies (which she may or may not be good at) and seeing chick rearing the way nature intended, then by all means, leave the chicks with mom. On the other hand, if your goal is raising these...

If the eggs arrive and appear to have been packed well, and delivered to the post office in a timely manner, a seller will get good feedback from me. BUT, I will wait until after a week and the first candling, so that I can mention in the feedback that the eggs are fertile and developing...

So all you would get that doesn't "look" blue, would be some blue white eyed? What if the cock was not a genetically dominant blue, but some other pure color, like opal or bronze? Would the original blue genes still take preference.... since non - sex linked colors mated to blue still produces...

I've looked around, at all the genetics charts I can find, and I can't find the percentage breakdown of what the chicks from this pairing would be. What percent will be white, white eye, pied, dark pied, IB split white, etc? I know silver pied carry two copies of the white eye gene, and at least...

We used to hatch in a Hovabator.... until we had a couple chicks burn their head feathers off on the element. One was burned pretty bad, and had a bald spot for months. I think the 'bators were designed for smaller chicks, like chicken babies. We use an old fish tank now for hatching. It has an...

I candle after 7 days. With a decent candler, you can easily see growth by then.

Presale eggs, months ahead of breeding season, seems like a very risky proposition. However, most of the folks who sell eggs on eBay are honest, hardworking folks, who will go out of their way to work with you and make things right. The best thing to do, is check their feedback, and look...

I wouldn't recommend anything lighter than #42 cord netting. I made the mistake one year of "saving a little money" and getting some thinner stuff. Well, we got a heavier than usual snowfall that year, and the weight of the snow ripped it apart like tissue paper. I'd also suggest getting 2 1/2"...

It's been my experience that the more attention that is drawn to the box (ie: day glow stickers with cute bird pics, "fragile", "hatching eggs", "please be gentle!", etc), the rougher the packages are handled. It's been documented by ex-postal workers that this is an invitation to play football...

Sounds like a lot of work! The hatch rate is a wild card, because somebody can pack as securely as possible, but if the Post Office decides to x-ray your package, it means nothing. The only qualifier that would reflect actual packing success would be breakage rate, or lack thereof. In my...