How do you sell your extra peacocks?

[AugeredIn]

Yep that is why on my for sale page I list that I will not sell to a taxidermist or someone buying for a taxidermist.

I forgot who once said this, but I think at the Mount Hope Auction one year a taxidermist bought lots of adult peacocks just for taxidermy.

If you look online, taxidermy peacocks go for way more money than a live bird would go for. To me it is funny to pay more for a dead bird than for a live one, but that is just me. I know that the dead ones cost more because of the time it takes to mount them, etc. Lots of the mounted ones just don't look right though. Their faces always look funny or people put their neck in an un-natural position.

Another thing I have noticed is on feather selling sites, sometimes they sell a full peacock skin. The same theme is almost always apparent in these peacock skins...The train is always half way grown in making me think they plan on killing them when the train is still in good condition and not too long. I saw a green peacock skin for sale recently and wondered if they killed it just for the skin because it had a half grown out train.

By the way I am not against taxidermy. As I type, the room I am sitting in has two white tail bucks and two ducks. I just don't like the idea of buying an animal just to kill it for its skin. All the taxidermy animals in our house were hunted and eaten not raised and loved by a person and then being sold for slaughter.

Not just one time. Many, many of the Mount Hope birds are sold to taxidermists every year.

 

[Yoda]

We take our culls to local farm animal auctions, there are quite a few of them around here. Found a trader at one of them that would buy all my yearling cocks for a fair price I could not get from people around here. He takes them to OK and resells them.

We also have a live stock auction house that is open every Monday. They sell mostly chicken, roosters and ducks. Seems ducks fetch around $30-40. They get peas now and then and the males sell for about $100 and the females can go as high as $375 but most of the time they are IB. At my auction house if I let the owner know that I will be bringing in peas on a certain day she will contact the pea buyers and the bidding war is on. Our auction house takes a 1/3 of what the bird sells for. Check your area for any livestock auctions or poultry auctions.

Last year I hatched 4 males and 23 hens so I have a lot of females

 

[KsKingBee]

We don't get that kind of money at our auction but our fees are only 15%. You never know when you might hit the jackpot or go bust but you always go home without the birds you came with.

I find that the real advantage is being able to identify who has the type of livestock you are interested in and making contacts with them. I bought a purple peachick from a lady for $15. she sold it because it was to 'needy'. It is the most friendly pea I have and it has bonded to me and DW. But, now I know a local breeder of purple and other colors I am interested in.

Most adult peas at that auction are IB and sell for around $50 for cocks and $100 for hens. Last week there was that one crazy little lady that went bonkers buying every pea in sight. I helped two sellers by bidding up their birds, one that I got my purple from and the other brought two BS chicks. I helped run the chicks for a while but the bidding went crazy and the chicks went up to $70 so the guy later that evening sold me two for $15 each,

which was his normal selling price and what he was expecting to get at auction.

My check list for colored peas is about done, found three white chicks, two BS, and now on the trail for Spaulding.

 

[Yoda]

We don't get that kind of money at our auction but our fees are only 15%. You never know when you might hit the jackpot or go bust but you always go home without the birds you came with.

I find that the real advantage is being able to identify who has the type of livestock you are interested in and making contacts with them. I bought a purple peachick from a lady for $15. she sold it because it was to 'needy'. It is the most friendly pea I have and it has bonded to me and DW. But, now I know a local breeder of purple and other colors I am interested in.

Most adult peas at that auction are IB and sell for around $50 for cocks and $100 for hens. Last week there was that one crazy little lady that went bonkers buying every pea in sight. I helped two sellers by bidding up their birds, one that I got my purple from and the other brought two BS chicks. I helped run the chicks for a while but the bidding went crazy and the chicks went up to $70 so the guy later that evening sold me two for $15 each,

which was his normal selling price and what he was expecting to get at auction.

My check list for colored peas is about done, found three white chicks, two BS, and now on the trail for Spaulding.

Just remember to get as much background info as you can on any peas you buy. For example I bought 2 white birds that the seller thought was two males and was a pair but I needed to know what color the parents were and anything else in thier history. She posted a picture showing me the only male her Dad had in his pen and it wasn't white LOL If I remember correctly, the hen was white but they did not know her background. Here's a picture of her father's peacock below, you can see the white feathers in his wing. Our prices go up and down depends who is at the auction. Like I said if you give your auction a heads up and say next month on this day I am bringing peafowl to your auction she might be able to contact her pea buyers so they are aware of your birds.