@uzisuzuki what are peacocks used for? I feel like I have known some to be loud, like they might be good at sounding the alarm if the flock is in danger so everyone can run for cover, but I don't know if people get them for this reason. Do people eat them? I just don't know! Are they just pets like a parrot or a songbird?
I left the ducklings outside last night since the low was only supposed to be 45 which is about as good as it gets around here. I felt nervous when I woke up to frost and the temp was 33, but the seem fine, so they might be outdoors for good! They have been out for 2 days ALL day and the drake seems to be ignoring them now as well, so hopefully this is really helping with eventual integration.
I think they're a mostly ornamental bird. They are very good at notifying the flock if something is off, and they are pretty territorial when strangers (animals or humans) show up. The breeding calls are extremely loud. For the most part, though, they don't make a lot of noise compared to roosters or dogs. I guess people could eat them, but that would be a really expensive meal for a 10-20lb bird (depending on what kind of peafowl it is).
In all honesty, I pretty much just house and feed them. The adult trio are completely hands off and are just now letting me get less than a foot away from them because the three yearlings aren't shy about coming up to people. The yearlings, while they will come up to people and try to take off with anything you have in your hands, also don't like to be picked up and handled.
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I caught Mim trying to mimic his sire, Damien, this morning. It's so adorable. When he tries to make breeding calls, he's all puberty sounding.
Syrax is a female yearling from my adult Spalding Purple black Shoulder.
Fin Fang Foom (top) and Mad Mim (bottom) are from my adult Spalding Cameo Split Pied. They both have a scaling neck/chest pattern that is pretty interesting. I don't know if they will keep that as they grow older - their dam doesn't have it.
I think they're fun birds to have around. As yearlings, they're a handful because they want to runaway from home and find new places (especially Mim), but they're very entertaining to have. They're extremely nosy and want to check everything out. Fin likes to carefully peck the dirt off my hands and fingers. Sy likes to tug at my shirt so I pay attention to her. Mim is still my baby, even though he's trying to play like he's too big for that now. I'm pretty glad that their sire decided to adopt me 3 years ago.
