**Fancy Rooster Contest!! Ends 2/28/16**

[CochinLover1]

[/URL]. These are our two roosters they are both twenty weeks old tomorrow. The light brown leghorn is Henri he has been crowing since he was just over seven weeks old. The other is our surprise rooster Buttercup AKA"The Fonz". Who looked just like his female easter egger counter part until about three and a half weeks ago and he started molting and we heard him crow. He's huge all of a sudden to. My profile pic is him just five weeks ago no hint of him being a rooster. But we love them both.

I have always enjoyed the orange/yellow colorings of the leghorns. I like your EE mix's grey beard.

 

[lolli1103]

I know i was just looking at his beard yesterday thinking it was looking pretty good for a bird that just over three weeks ago we thought was a hen.

 

[CochinLover1]

Haha! He must've grown in his big boy feathers pretty quickly in that period of time.

 

[Shay1Bear]

This is how i picture you in your coop! That is one beautiful bird!

Thats halarious and just about right

 

[CochinLover1]

In your avatar picture, you have two peacocks. Are they yours?

 

[Shay1Bear]

Thats halarious and just about right

hes my baby lol! He has a funny personality! Doesn't even act like a chicken

he likes to crow in my arms for some reason he waits until I pick him up and start walking around with him and then he starts crowing and rests his crazy feathered head on my shoulder.

 

[Shay1Bear]

In your avatar picture, you have two peacocks. Are they yours?

Yes they are mine, I have 18 peafowl

all different breeds.

 

[CochinLover1]

What are they like? I am very interested in peafowl but don't know much about them.

 

[allosaurusrock]

May I enter?

Name: Lemuel
Breed: Mixed
Gender: Rooster


Name: Spock
Breed: EE mix
Gender: Rooster


Name: Pearl/Autumn
Breed: Mix
Gender: Rooster


Name: Chewbacca
Breed: EE mix
Gender: Rooster


Name: Silver
Breed: Splash Orpington
Gender: Rooster
RIP

Thanks!

WOW!!! I love the shiny roosters!

 

[Shay1Bear]

What are they like? I am very interested in peafowl but don't know much about them.

A lot of people say or think they are hard to raise but their not, they take a lot more work and require more maintince then chickens and or other fowl but they are worth everything you put into them They are very load during breeding season but rather then that they are pretty quiet. They're just amazing and so intelligent and very curious birds! I've raised them for 6 years now starting with the pair in my avatar pic they were my first two. Peafowl usually lay 2 clutches of eggs per season, each clutch she lays between 6-12 eggs. You will have better hatch rates by incubation rather then her sitting on them. Fun birds! The males as everyone knows are just gorgeous! !!