Anyone know this peafowl breeder?

[critters]

I saw and spoke to Kelly of Read Mountain Peafowl on Monday.... he has a huge set-up between
turkey, chickens and peafowl and can't even begin to give you a number of birds he has....
think there was 4 small/medium size pens, one with turkeys and the other 3 with 3 peafowl in each,
2 peahens and a peacock each....the first were IB, the second were Green IB peafowl and think? the 3rd
pen had also green peafowl....
in another section he had a large pen and a very large pen, both holding peafowl and chickens (paired up by
different breeds)...the large pen had 2 or 3 IB and the largest pen, 6 or so peas with all his birds being very
well kept, clean spacious pens and calm beautiful birds...also in these large pens were many chickens as well...
long story short, I went home with a peacock and 3 peahens ...
and my daughter took home 2 banty silky roosters and a pair of eygpt chickens (forgot the name)

(I will try to get pictures soon and post)....
I did tell him I found him from backyardchickens.com
and he should check it out when he has a few minutes of down time....

still looking for Jade and thought I saw her slip out the back of the packhouse this AM but couldn't get
around the building quick enough to see if it was her and too much was behind the building to look
for her...she may even be there...looked before but hard to see in some spaces..
.just keeping my fingers crossed and hoping she shows up in a few weeks
with some young-uns, or just comes home flat out...

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Awesome! I would love to see pictures.

 

[MinxFox]

So did you get India Blue peafowl from Kelly? I can't wait for pictures!!!

BYC has some of the best little icons...Anyways is their property planted very tropical? I noticed in the photos on there facebook in some of the photos the background has bamboo and other tropical looking plants. I am so glad you visited him, I was extremely curious...That is the problem with me is I am too far away from most of the peafowl breeders I want to visit.

 

[critters]

I got offspring from last summer's hatch, June and July...
guess they are mixed so to speak.
Some are fathered by IB and mom green or vise versa
as they look like young IB females with scaly feathered
necks for starters and their crest are not like my Blue yet
sorta as they are more grouped and straight with some
knobs where the greens had no knobs and in a clump..

I need to get pictures...

(need a lil camera round his neck!)

Bamboo of different growth stages was everyone! I want some
too....some varities were @ only 3 foot maybe but most was
probably 20 feet high at least...and plants everywhere...very
tropical feeling....made you feel you might get lost in the forest.
Very neat! From the front yard, front of the house you had no
idea what was in the backyard, that went on and on....also had
a nice bar/grill covered setup then a swimming pool...still no idea
of birds until the short bamboo then taller and more bamboo
and cages begin...heard some chickens before anything else.
Yeah...a nice set-up I'd like having...

 

[critters]

 

[MinxFox]

Wow it sounds like the have a very pretty setup! If you ever visit them again you should take photos of their setup if they let you.

They are Spaldings? They don't look like Spaldings to me. If the father or the mother was pure green, I would think the offspring would show a lot more green traits like a yellow face, etc. This is what I would think they would look like if they were spalding: http://www.cacklehatchery.com/Spalding.jpg I guess maybe a pure green to an India blue does not always make very Spalding looking birds?

I thought Read Mountain Peafowl was not into breeding Spaldings?

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Minxfox, I agree with you. They look India Blue to me. I thought Read Mountain strictly bred India Blue and Java Green separately.

 

[critters]

Not my understanding....he bred the IB to IB and Green to green AND
male IB to female green plus male Green to female IB... SO I am unsure
of each of the 4 I got as to who was who's daddy and so forth....
but I agree, they look IB except all have scaley type feathering on their
necks.....no yellow around their eye area like my Silver Pied Spaulding has
or the straight greens he had..
this of course is the single peacock....

and below is one of the young females



another thing he said was that the green peafowl are much more quite than the blues
and so far, these younguns have been fairly calm and quite....

SO, WHAT DO I HAVE ?? IB SPLIT TO GREEN OR SOMETHING???
still think they are pretty babies....

 

[pedda munnangi]

The female looks like a spalding, does not matter which one is father and which one is mother, as long as one parent is green and the other IB. They will be 50 % spaldings. The yellow on the face will develop as she matures, even though you may not see now. The male looks like a pure Indiablue.

 

[MinxFox]

The young peacock has scaling because when they are young their neck feathers will look a little scaled and green at the end of the neck like that but as they get older the feather shape will change and so will the color. I think the peacock is pure, but in that new photo the peahen does look a bit different in color. I just thought a green to an India blue would give you offspring that look very Spalding. Now I see why it must be frustrating breeding them. Wow I thought since he seemed into breeding pure greens he would be against breeding spaldings. Sorry I guess I just didn't expect them to breed Spaldings.