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Yeah, that's why there was a range put there. We surveyed, when I was making the original post, and people had a pretty wide regional discrepancy for prices. Last year at the swaps, IBs were running $15-20 (I sell my own dark pied IBs and reg IBs for $20), purples were running $20-30, pied IBs...

Michigan. Bear in mind this post was made 6 years ago and I can no longer edit it. The last IB chick I bought was $10, and that was 3 years ago. Typically I see IB chicks under 3 months going for $15-20 now.

Too young to tell, looks like. When they are a little older (after they get their crowns in at least), come back and make a new thread to ask. Lot of people don't check this thread anymore. Congrats on your babies!!

You should make a new post for this question since more people are likely to see it that way. No one checks this thread.

The usual standard for pen size for peas is 100 square feet per bird (or 10x10 feet), and that's with no other birds in with them. So, he may still be feeling a little trapped by a smaller pen, as well as nervous about the change in location and people/birds around him. For treats, my peas...

If you got him as a two year old, there isn't much you're going to do to "tame him" like you're thinking. You might get him not to freak out when you enter the pen if you let him make the decisions about moving away from you. On my more flighty birds, if I walk toward them a couple steps and...

It's not cheap if you're doing it right anyway Lol! We just finished the first of my 4 planned pens at my new house in October. I can't tell if I'm looking forward to building the other three or not- it was a lot of work!

You should come to my house to build those pens :D Yours are all such beautiful pens, it's always awesome to see pics- and of course all the pretty peas inside them ;)

Ahhh I've seen pics from you of him before, he's just as lovely as ever. I would definitely be interested in eggs out of his pen ;) Do you have any pics of the opal pied hen?

I am in Opal WASTELAND here!! I have seen only ONE opal hen for sale here in the past 5 years (and of course I bought her ~2 years ago), and I just lost her due to some really crazy muck-ups at the vet that shouldn't have happened. Think we could arrange some buying/shipping of eggs once...

@Dany12 my guess for the bird that you are saying is "hiding" silver pied is that the bird is either a silver pied which is "low" in showing the white (like a 'dark pied' bird) or else a pied bird that shows a lot of white ('loud pied' so to speak) which also has the white-eye genes. Since...

This is correct. The term "blackshoulder" is a misnomer, originally used because it appeared first in India blue wild-type peafowl, giving them those pretty black shoulders. However, the term "solid wing" is both more accurate and appropriate, as the pattern causes the bird to lose the barring...

Dany, that quote you used just means that pied is not exclusive of other patterns. So you can have a pied blackshoulder bird, for instance. "pied" is a part of the silver pied pattern (last I heard it was a suspected interaction between pied, white-eye, and possibly white genetics), so pied...

*blush* Yes ma'am! ^__^

Hey Zaz! *groan* Stupidly busy. I moved to a new house in October and I've been fixing and building and clearing and burning (I promise to post pictures soon) and I got totally sucked into a fan-run campaign for a television show where we were putting together charity fundraisers ($10,000 raised...

Oh, thank you Judy. Um, the link you gave me doesn't work though! I'll look into creating an article for these posts as soon as I get a chance! :)

No harm done :) Maybe you could post that photo (and others? :D ) on the advanced housing thread with some info about it?? That would be awesome!

This thread *is* supposed to be for reference (although, is there a reason I can no longer edit the original post? I wanted to update it with the answers to some questions and I can't ) and for questions about basic care. For newcomers, it helps to keep this thread clean of 'chatter' or...

They typically will lay every other day or so.

From what I've seen, the time when they start laying varies somewhat with where you live. I've seen some people say that their peas are already laying in warmer climates. I live in a fairly cold climate and mine have not started. Mine typically start at the beginning or middle of May. It may...