I only told Blue Creek Farm this, but my main intention for Farm Day was to talk to Josh about green peafowl. I brought my dog box and everything and was ready to buy a young pair of greens from him today but he said he needed time to sex them (they are this year's hatch) and to call him next week. Josh has a ton more green peafowl than I thought and I swear I was in heaven. Aaron kept laughing at me because I was jumping up and down taking tons of photos of the greens and freaking out! Rocking B-A-B Ranch's website doesn't do any justice to just how beautiful their peafowl are. They are really pretty, they have lots of pens, and I freaked out about the awesome giant elephant ears too!
I made a check list for green peafowl where on each page it would be for a different subspecies and it would have topics like "1. Long legs" and I would check the ones that were good and X out the ones that were not good. Looking at the green peafowl before speaking to Josh, I gave all three subspecies perfect scores. Some of the only ones that were not so good were a few of the American Greens but all of the imports were beautiful!
I told Aaron I just had to find Josh. I told him I figured he would be one of the guys driving around a Polaris and so the first guy we saw driving a Polaris we asked if he was Josh and he said, "No, but look for a guy wearing a sun visor. He is the only guy that runs a farm that wears a sun visor." Sure enough we see a guy driving a Polaris wearing a grey sun visor. He didn't have a lot of time to talk (I figured he would be busy) but he said most people have gotten out of breeding green peafowl. He said he is about the only person in the US with a lot of the imports left. He said there are a few here and there, but he has probably the most and some of the purest subspecies. I am very lucky that I only live an hour away! I am also happy that he said in our area we don't need to provide heat for green peafowl. He had to go soon, but he told Aaron and me that we should go back down to the green peafowl pens and guess which subspecies are in each pen. We went back and wrote down the pen # and what subspecies we thought it was.
When we finally got to talk to Josh again he read down the list and told us which ones we didn't get right and we got almost all of them correct! It was awesome! He told me to contact him next week about the green peafowl.
There were lots of peas and I will try and correctly identify the variety. Some of them I am unsure about...I tried to find those new varieties Blue Creek wanted me to take photos of but I am not sure if I found them? I don't know all of the greyish & tannish colored peafowl look very similar to me!
Okay photos will be in a second post...
I made a check list for green peafowl where on each page it would be for a different subspecies and it would have topics like "1. Long legs" and I would check the ones that were good and X out the ones that were not good. Looking at the green peafowl before speaking to Josh, I gave all three subspecies perfect scores. Some of the only ones that were not so good were a few of the American Greens but all of the imports were beautiful!
I told Aaron I just had to find Josh. I told him I figured he would be one of the guys driving around a Polaris and so the first guy we saw driving a Polaris we asked if he was Josh and he said, "No, but look for a guy wearing a sun visor. He is the only guy that runs a farm that wears a sun visor." Sure enough we see a guy driving a Polaris wearing a grey sun visor. He didn't have a lot of time to talk (I figured he would be busy) but he said most people have gotten out of breeding green peafowl. He said he is about the only person in the US with a lot of the imports left. He said there are a few here and there, but he has probably the most and some of the purest subspecies. I am very lucky that I only live an hour away! I am also happy that he said in our area we don't need to provide heat for green peafowl. He had to go soon, but he told Aaron and me that we should go back down to the green peafowl pens and guess which subspecies are in each pen. We went back and wrote down the pen # and what subspecies we thought it was.
When we finally got to talk to Josh again he read down the list and told us which ones we didn't get right and we got almost all of them correct! It was awesome! He told me to contact him next week about the green peafowl.
There were lots of peas and I will try and correctly identify the variety. Some of them I am unsure about...I tried to find those new varieties Blue Creek wanted me to take photos of but I am not sure if I found them? I don't know all of the greyish & tannish colored peafowl look very similar to me!
Okay photos will be in a second post...
