2015 breeding season

[thndrdancr]

Oh my goodness, it made it? When u didn't update I feared the very worst! I need a picture!!!!!

Yes, broodys are the best! I have found right at hatching mine tend to push the egg out or chick out. I dunno why? So I have to watch carefully. My best moms to them are my blind or somewhat limited vision silkies. I guess then rhe size doesn't bother them.

I think this is a great picture! Lol. Mom and her "baby". By the way this is Answer and he hangs with mom a lot since his leg is gimpy, so is hers!

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Congrats! I think I have heard that greens harder to hatch than blues? and blues aren't easy.

I guess yes, got 10 eggs so far, 8 were fertile and only three hatched, but its still better than nothing.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Happy kids.

 

[casportpony]

Happy kids.

-Kathy

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Sweet!

Happy kids.

Happy and such cute little guys!

(By the way, how old are these guys? For the database...)

 

[Birdrain92]

Do you want pics of the eggs and nest? Because I've got photos of the nest with an egg in it.

 

[casportpony]

Oh my goodness, it made it? When u didn't update I feared the very worst! I need a picture!!!!!

Yes, broodys are the best! I have found right at hatching mine tend to push the egg out or chick out. I dunno why? So I have to watch carefully. My best moms to them are my blind or somewhat limited vision silkies. I guess then rhe size doesn't bother them.

I think this is a great picture! Lol. Mom and her "baby". By the way this is Answer and he hangs with mom a lot since his leg is gimpy, so is hers!

That's cute!

-Kathy

 

[msmolly]

Hello Peafowl Friends. I'm back after a long cold Ohio winter. Its been such fun catching up on every one's posts. Congrats to every one with eggs and chicks already. Such fun recognizing names and birds from last year.
Happy Mothers Day to my IB hen Lucy! She is sitting on a nest of 6 eggs. Day one of setting was May7. Estimate hatch date June 4? Best part of all, She voluntarily chose to nest inside the chicken coop once again. Woo Hoo! That makes life so much easier (and safer). Last year, we had 3 failed nests: partly caused by a raccoon who took up residence inside the pen in a little hidey hole on the roof of the hen house. Needless to say, Lucy stopped nesting in the hen house and started nesting on the hillside outside the pen.(go figure). Moving her nest back into the pen failed miserably. And so on, so forth, etc... 3 nests last year, no chicks. Previous years nests were 100% hatch and other than a few predator mishaps- all survived. The point being, my IB hen Lucy is a great mother. As long as I don't meddle and the racoons are kept at bay- she has done a great job hatching her chicks in the past. I love watching her raise the chicks,teaching them how to be little peafowl! Hoping with crossed fingers we get chicks this year.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Sweet!

Happy and such cute little guys!

(By the way, how old are these guys? For the database...)

They are a week old, all the yellow chicks are black shoulders from different colors.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

India blue chick and green chick: