Ice hatched out her eggs!!! - Page 2

This morning I opened the small pen for Ice to enter the larger pen. After Church when we got back Ice was in the big pen with the peachicks. I got a better look at all of them and the one in question looks like it is a dark pied since I saw a few white flights. The other is definitely a pied and I am thinking the white one is a white. I was wondering if Damsel my pied peahen is the real mom since she is pied and she could have laid the eggs but Ice just incubated them, then I thought about that and Damsel was still incubating her one egg when I found that one egg that then turned into three with Ice nesting on them so I guess Ice is just split to pied...Of course Dragon is the dad (he was pied). I just can't get over the odds of three peachicks all being the three different varieties you can get from matting pieds...What are the chances of that? I really like how all of them are different and I can't wait to see how the little pied turns out. It has a lot of white on its wings and a thin white stripe going around the top of its neck so it might be an interesting bird.

Ice was in the grass chasing bugs and catching them for the peachicks to eat. Alto was displaying a little his small train is almost gone and I can see some nice backplate feathers coming in on him. I watched the white peachick get separated from Ice when she left some bushes and the peachick started to cry because it wasn't paying attention when she left and got left behind in the bushes. Ice called for it from the other side of the bushes and I watched as it jumped over branches and leaves to get to Ice and the two other chicks.

Aww yes it is. It makes me so happy that all the eggs hatched and the chicks are healthy and active.

I got some pictures, the peachicks are doing a great job walking through the tall grass and learning from Ice. Ice has scratched all over the pen finding bugs for the peachicks to eat. She also scratched at the medicated chick food. I gave Ice some nice lettuce. I had her take it out of my hand because I want the peachicks to see that they can trust me. She was not afraid to take the food from my hand and trusted me being close to her peachicks. They don't seem very afraid of me so that is good. Thank goodness Ice is tame and used to me.

They kept darting around so in some pictures they will be a bit blurry.


All three of them!


Here is Ice pecking at probably a bug and all the peachicks crowding around her pecking.


After they eat the bug Ice walks on to find another spot for bug hunting. When I gave Ice the lettuce she held her head up high to keep the peachicks from taking the lettuce from her. They were all staring up at her eating it and jumping up for it. Mom has to eat too!


This is just what I wanted, a peahen to hatch out some peachicks so I can watch a peahen and her peachicks interact and grow. It is so fun!

They hatched out Thursday or Friday of last week.

Ice flew up onto a high perch in the afternoon. She must have thought the peachicks were ready to roost but it was too high and the peachicks just stood there peeping. Ice flew down and then we herded them into the small pen and Ice lay down over the peachicks on the ground. The peachicks have been flapping a bit but I haven't seen them perch on anything, except for Ice.