Help identifying what type of peafowl we have.

[edamaske]

Amazing!! Thank you so much!! I wish I would have found this Web site so much sooner!! You have a beautiful pea family!! I have grown to love mine. I love coming home at night a watching and listening to them call to each other!! Great natural stree reliver... I checked our nest yesterday we have two eggs that I can see, she built it under our deck in the straw I put down for the for them over the winter...and looks like she is hiding them with the straw they are a litte hard to see from afar....

 

[edamaske]

What is the white eyed??

 

[DylansMom]

Amazing!! Thank you so much!! I wish I would have found this Web site so much sooner!! You have a beautiful pea family!! I have grown to love mine. I love coming home at night a watching and listening to them call to each other!! Great natural stree reliver... I checked our nest yesterday we have two eggs that I can see, she built it under our deck in the straw I put down for the for them over the winter...and looks like she is hiding them with the straw they are a litte hard to see from afar....

Good sign, they will hide the eggs that they intend to sit on. I love to hear them as well, my hubby......not so much, but he thinks it's terrible when I go out and call for my cats too loudly, because the neighbors might hear. I still don't quite understand his reasoning on that one?

Do your Peas have any special treats that they like? Mine love potato bread, getting them used to treats thrown by you will be important, because you are going to want to worm them. Worms are a common reason that Peas do not make it through the winter. We recommend a liquid wormer available at Tractor supply or online, and it soaks into potato bread quite nicely.

Incase I neglected to say it...........

 

[DylansMom]

What is the white eyed??

White Eye is another pattern variation. The "eye" in the center of the typical peacock tail feather is actually called an ocelli, with the white eye pattern, there will be a varying amount of white in the center of those ocelli. If the bird is split to the white eye, you will see a handful like that, if he is a full white eye carrying 2 genes for it, almost all eyes will be white in the center, they can be quite striking.





http://www.leggspeafowl.com/photo/images/spalding Black Shoulder white-Eyed Cock 1.jpg

 

[edamaske]

Thank u, greatfull to have joined!! They like all kinds of treats, bread soda crackers, gram crackers, pretzels, and popped corn. My mother n law brings them all kinds of stuff. ( I think she buys extra to be able to bring it over for them)
I have seen stuff posting about wormer to use.... was unsure how to go about this because from what I see it's suggested giving it orally. Have to say that's not going to happen unless I can put it in food LOL!! My boys would not let me get close enough to try a catch them, nor let me put something in their mouth suggestions?

 

[edamaske]

White Eye is another pattern variation. The "eye" in the center of the typical peacock tail feather is actually called an ocelli, with the white eye pattern, there will be a varying amount of white in the center of those ocelli. If the bird is split to the white eye, you will see a handful like that, if he is a full white eye carrying 2 genes for it, almost all eyes will be white in the center, they can be quite striking. http://www.leggspeafowl.com/photo/images/spalding Black Shoulder white-Eyed Cock 1.jpg

I do see that on my guy with the white wings !! He is the only one I have noticed this on!!

 

[edamaske]

I do see that on my guy with the white wings !! He is the only one I have noticed this on!!

I would say 40% of his train has the white eye

 

[DylansMom]

I would say 40% of his train has the white eye

If you get a chance to take his picture when he is fanning and when the tail is down at rest, so we can see wings and back... kind of a 360, we could probably narrow down what he is carrying just a little, but he sounds pretty neat. For free rangers the easiest way to worm will be to soak the liquid into something like bread and then try to feed them the laced treats one bird at a time, so you can keep track of how much they got. Trying to do the whole group would be too hard to keep track of who got how much. When you are ready to try that we can let you know what to get and how much for each.

 

[edamaske]

Glad to know my hubby isn't the only one who is not thrilled with our newest additions. We have kittys too. I am a total worry wort and my animals almost alway are first, we next to the kids lol. He thinks I'm crazy for worrying so much he say let nature take it course. I just can't to that!! I'm a fixer!

 

[edamaske]

When would be the best time to worm them? It's not very often they all come up to the house.. I have a few that like to hang out in the nature conservancy that surrounds us. Once the weather warms up we don't see them too much, all the hens stay close and a few of cocks, what I think are the younger males tend to wonder. I can hear them out there when they call each other....