Green and Spalding chicks

[zazouse]

Those birds are on a friend farm where I bought my green peacock. This blood line is coming from Wolfgang Menning .
I have 2 peahen 2013 male and 2014 which is much larger than females.
Green peacock sexual dimorphism is more important than Blue peacock sexual dimorphism .



Zazouse, it 's not better to buy ONLY peacocks from imported birds and nothing like green "American"peacock.
That way ... later you will be known as the Lady who has green peacock "imported blood "!

Beautiful peas.

i plan to have both Americans and imports here and would like to cross some of the offspring together as i will have 3 American blood lines, it will improve their bloodline even if they are still Americans, remember once the imports have offspring ,they to will be considered Americans because they like the Americans were born in American

 

[Pfauenfreund]

I understand Greens are not the same as blues that is why i want them it will be another learning experience for me and i embrace these things, i am looking forward to what they can teach me.

This I can confirm, they are different in many points. The first thing you will see is they are much more active. When you will have different birds, you will see that they can have very big differences in character. I started with IB and after I got the greens, I had to learn many things too.
Just one recommendation when you start, prepare large aviaries and barns otherwise the risk is very high that they start feather picking, especially when the younger then two years. Don’t buy birds where you can see that they have damaged plumage due to feather picking. This is nearly impossible to stop anymore when they are used to do it.
The rest you will see and learn.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Good luck, i hope you will find what you want at that time, especially that greens start laying late as I heard before(not sure about this), hoping they will have many greens this year.

 

[zazouse]

Thank you Q8 h sounded pretty confident that he would have plenty, i put a deposit on them and i am also getting 10 IB silver pieds but will not be keeping all of them unless they are all hens LOL

 

[MinxFox]

I like your plan Zaz.

While it might sound like a good idea to keep the import lines pure, and I do think it is good that Rocking BAB breeds them separately, I also think it is a good idea to breed imported greens to American greens to lessen the impact of inbreeding. Inbreeding might not be that bad for the greens health wise, but it could cause shorter legs, etc. Just a thought.

Kelly of Read Mountain peafowl has Rodney Michael line Javas and he bought at least one imported male from Josh to use for breeding with some of his RM females. I think he has had good results from the breeding. On Sid's site he says he uses Rodney Michael green peahens bred to imported green peacocks. I am not sure if that is still what he is breeding these days, but he was doing that.

 

[destinduck]

If I can raise greens I believe anyone can. I havent never really treated them special.Except I did raise the younguns on wire for their first month and a half. They have handled the cold relatively well for me.They have been fed mainly chicken layer pellets like all my other birds and have been kept with waterfowl. Which are pretty messy. I sold my spaldings(from goldilocks) and my two 1 year old pure greens for 50 bucks yesterday,Put em on Craigslist here in my county and my phone rang off the hook. One person from Bama bought all of em 5 minutes after the add went up. lol!
I hope my greens lay well this year. My younger boy is out on loan to a friend of mine, If he has kids we split the chicks. He is the same person that has goldilocks. I too think its a good idea to breed the American greens with the imports if you can Zaz. I have two people that have kept pure greens for a long while and have said some will have the longer legs and some of the kids wont. Its the nature of the beast sorta speak. Quick side note: I find it interesting when I do a water change and the water is clear they like too walk in the pond. they only do it when its clear...which aint but a day with all my waterfowl in there, haha. Good luck with em Zaz, You will enjoy them. Shawn PS Pretty birds Dany!

 

[zazouse]

I like your plan Zaz.

While it might sound like a good idea to keep the import lines pure, and I do think it is good that Rocking BAB breeds them separately, I also think it is a good idea to breed imported greens to American greens to lessen the impact of inbreeding. Inbreeding might not be that bad for the greens health wise, but it could cause shorter legs, etc. Just a thought.

Kelly of Read Mountain peafowl has Rodney Michael line Javas and he bought at least one imported male from Josh to use for breeding with some of his RM females. I think he has had good results from the breeding. On Sid's site he says he uses Rodney Michael green peahens bred to imported green peacocks. I am not sure if that is still what he is breeding these days, but he was doing that.

As far as breeding the imports to the Americans i do not see what difference it is going to make except add new blood to the American bloodline .

once those baby's hatch here even if they are from imports i would think they would now be Americana's also, wouldn't you agree here? i mean anything born in America than it is an American , like when did the Americans greens become American greens? first generation born here right?
I just reread Josh's page on imports and he stated that they may be direct imports or from direct imports so technically if i buy off springs from imports that were hatched in Florida they too are Americans, perhaps way better documented as records have been kept on them sense they arrived here in the states where the older Americans may have changed hands many times over the last 40 years that we know they have been in the US.

 

[zazouse]

This I can confirm, they are different in many points. The first thing you will see is they are much more active. When you will have different birds, you will see that they can have very big differences in character. I started with IB and after I got the greens, I had to learn many things too.
Just one recommendation when you start, prepare large aviaries and barns otherwise the risk is very high that they start feather picking, especially when the younger then two years. Don’t buy birds where you can see that they have damaged plumage due to feather picking. This is nearly impossible to stop anymore when they are used to do it.
The rest you will see and learn.

Thank you for the help, my aviaries will be at around 2000 square feet.i will have 4 of these so the birds can be rotated to them for fresh grains and grasses and fruits
I will be purchasing baby pea chicks so there will be no way to determine weather they will be feather pickers

 

[Pfauenfreund]

Thank you for the help, my aviaries will be at around 2000 square feet.i will have 4 of these so the birds can be rotated to them for fresh grains and grasses and fruits
I will be purchasing baby pea chicks so there will be no way to determine weather they will be feather pickers

I’m happy that you have so big aviaries. You will see your green chicks will enjoy it very much. In such big aviaries, they have normally so much to do that they will not start with feather picking.
I wish you good luck that all will grow well.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Thank you for the help, my aviaries will be at around 2000 square feet.i will have 4 of these so the birds can be rotated to them for fresh grains and grasses and fruits
I will be purchasing baby pea chicks so there will be no way to determine weather they will be feather pickers

Each pen will be 2000 square feet, WOW that's awesome!