How exciting! Congrats on these beautiful new chicks.
Ice hatched out her eggs!!!
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I'm glad you got three beautiful babies! I love genetics!!
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Hi Minx,
Thankyou, I understand they hatched on 11th or 12th July.
I had been studying the moults of peafowls and the moults of peafowls, are poorly known and need a lot of studying.
I did not know the exact age of peachicks, in days when they start to moult the innermost primary feathers when they are 1 months old.
If your peachicks drop their inner primary feathers 1st, 2nd, 3rd-can you please let me know.
The feathers they now are growing, are smaller than when 6 months old, as they grow bigger, they get bigger feathers and change their colours as they grow.
I had measured the juvenile primaries feathers 4th to 10th, but I did not have juvenile primary feathers 1st to 3rd, because my friend bought 3 peachicks for me, are 2 months old and had replaced the juvenile primary feathers 1st, 2nd, 3rd, with immature primary feathers.
I kept 3 peachicks on 1994-1995 and I studied their moults. I likes peafowls very much. I had photoed my 3 peachicks monthly as they grew up, and will send you the photoes if you are interested.
I had posted the messages in BackYardChickens, about "Study of Indian Blue Peafowls in New Zealand" and "Study of Indian Blue peafowl. Growth of male peafowl train feathers" last month ago. I lives in New Zealand. You are welcome to read them.
If you are interested in plumages or moults of peafowls, or want to know more, I will help you.
Studying of moult of peafowls, with me, helps you to know more about how dull brown male peachicks can grow into colourful wonderful adult male peafowls over 5 years, and how many months take for adult male peafowl to regrow the longest train feathers.
This is what you need when you want to make books of peafowls in next few years time.
I will call on you on 8th September to ask you to check for innermost juvenile primary feathers 1st your peafowls may shed on early September. These feathers are small and about between length 90mm and wideth (across) 150mm X 8mm-12mm
You are very welcome.
Enjoy your lovely peachicks
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Thankyou, I understand they hatched on 11th or 12th July.
I had been studying the moults of peafowls and the moults of peafowls, are poorly known and need a lot of studying.
I did not know the exact age of peachicks, in days when they start to moult the innermost primary feathers when they are 1 months old.
If your peachicks drop their inner primary feathers 1st, 2nd, 3rd-can you please let me know.
The feathers they now are growing, are smaller than when 6 months old, as they grow bigger, they get bigger feathers and change their colours as they grow.
I had measured the juvenile primaries feathers 4th to 10th, but I did not have juvenile primary feathers 1st to 3rd, because my friend bought 3 peachicks for me, are 2 months old and had replaced the juvenile primary feathers 1st, 2nd, 3rd, with immature primary feathers.
I kept 3 peachicks on 1994-1995 and I studied their moults. I likes peafowls very much. I had photoed my 3 peachicks monthly as they grew up, and will send you the photoes if you are interested.
I had posted the messages in BackYardChickens, about "Study of Indian Blue Peafowls in New Zealand" and "Study of Indian Blue peafowl. Growth of male peafowl train feathers" last month ago. I lives in New Zealand. You are welcome to read them.
If you are interested in plumages or moults of peafowls, or want to know more, I will help you.
Studying of moult of peafowls, with me, helps you to know more about how dull brown male peachicks can grow into colourful wonderful adult male peafowls over 5 years, and how many months take for adult male peafowl to regrow the longest train feathers.
This is what you need when you want to make books of peafowls in next few years time.
I will call on you on 8th September to ask you to check for innermost juvenile primary feathers 1st your peafowls may shed on early September. These feathers are small and about between length 90mm and wideth (across) 150mm X 8mm-12mm
You are very welcome.
Enjoy your lovely peachicks
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Thanks! I think it is really cool how you are observing peafowl.
Here are some pictures, I threw in some of Alto and Damsel too.
I saw the peachicks drinking with Ice and I saw the dark pied peachick catch and eat a moth. I would say at this age they are doing a lot more than a peachick their age being hand raised would be doing. I had to show Peep to peck at bugs, now he is good at catching them but that small little peachick catching that moth that was flying in the air was just amazing. It is really funny to watch the peachicks get on Ice's back. Ice is doing a great job finding bugs for them in the leaves and grass in the pen.
I know the fencing is big...Yes they can fit through it. They stay next to Ice though so they don't get out of the pen but if they do she calls to them and they can easily come right back in the pen. They have learned from Ice to stay in the pen and the only time they leave the pen is if I startle them when trying to get Ice to go into the small pen for the night.
Clinton9, this is my two year old Alto, he still has some of his train feathers from this year but he is already growing new back scale feathers that are those of a three year old. He only had one eye feather. Do you know why some 2 year olds have more eye feathers and have almost a three year old train? Do they just have better genetics like in deer some bucks will have nicer antlers than others? Just wondering. I can't wait for Alto to start growing in a three year old train. Oh and the bite mark on his neck has healed nicely. He still doesn't have feathers there and I can't wait for it to fill in.
Damsel! I guess some or all of Ice's chicks are really Damsel's... I just don't see any indication that Ice is pied or split. She doesn't have any white flight feathers...If that is true then that means Damsel has given me all of the peachicks this year...Peep and all of Ice's chicks. Except for the three whites those are from another breeder. This time of the year the pen is at maximum awesome. All the grass is nice and green and the flowering plants are flowering and the bamboo is looking nice with the new canes...Then the pen will get attacked by a huge fall of acorns then when it gets cold the nice leafy tree in the pen will lose all the leaves and look like the tree in Harry Potter plus some of the plants will die back and the grass will get all brownish-grey and ugly and the sky will forever be overcast and dark...BUT for now it looks so nice!
Here are some pictures, I threw in some of Alto and Damsel too.
I saw the peachicks drinking with Ice and I saw the dark pied peachick catch and eat a moth. I would say at this age they are doing a lot more than a peachick their age being hand raised would be doing. I had to show Peep to peck at bugs, now he is good at catching them but that small little peachick catching that moth that was flying in the air was just amazing. It is really funny to watch the peachicks get on Ice's back. Ice is doing a great job finding bugs for them in the leaves and grass in the pen.
I know the fencing is big...Yes they can fit through it. They stay next to Ice though so they don't get out of the pen but if they do she calls to them and they can easily come right back in the pen. They have learned from Ice to stay in the pen and the only time they leave the pen is if I startle them when trying to get Ice to go into the small pen for the night.
Clinton9, this is my two year old Alto, he still has some of his train feathers from this year but he is already growing new back scale feathers that are those of a three year old. He only had one eye feather. Do you know why some 2 year olds have more eye feathers and have almost a three year old train? Do they just have better genetics like in deer some bucks will have nicer antlers than others? Just wondering. I can't wait for Alto to start growing in a three year old train. Oh and the bite mark on his neck has healed nicely. He still doesn't have feathers there and I can't wait for it to fill in.
Damsel! I guess some or all of Ice's chicks are really Damsel's... I just don't see any indication that Ice is pied or split. She doesn't have any white flight feathers...If that is true then that means Damsel has given me all of the peachicks this year...Peep and all of Ice's chicks. Except for the three whites those are from another breeder. This time of the year the pen is at maximum awesome. All the grass is nice and green and the flowering plants are flowering and the bamboo is looking nice with the new canes...Then the pen will get attacked by a huge fall of acorns then when it gets cold the nice leafy tree in the pen will lose all the leaves and look like the tree in Harry Potter plus some of the plants will die back and the grass will get all brownish-grey and ugly and the sky will forever be overcast and dark...BUT for now it looks so nice!
Beautiful as always! Take lots of pictures of the pen when it's all nice and then you can gaze longingly at them over the winter XD "Remember when it was green?" "What's green?" lol Loving the little chicks! Does your camera take videos?
Wow, such beautiful pictures. Makes me wish I had a female so I could have babies, but I love my boys and don't need more.(At least not yet!) The picture of Alto shows me what I have to look forward to. Thanks for sharing.:
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The camera does take videos, but really short videos. We have a nice new videocamera but the problem is it films stuff in such High Def. that it is too big to edit on Windows Movie maker...I still need to try and figure out how I can edit it in movie maker without it freezing up the program. It is too bad since it takes great quality videos and I like filming stuff.
At least the camera works.
I got some more pictures, Ice was very kind to let me get close and even led the peachicks two feet away from me to peck at something.
Okay first the other two pen residents...They want to be in this topic too.
Alto about to take some bread out of my hand.
Alto preening his wing.
I love Damsel's eyes!
Ice still eats out of my hand even with peachicks, but she clucks whenever she walks up to me to get the food.
Here is the white peachick under Ice. The white one is kind of a loner and only really hangs out with Ice.
Finally I got a good picture of all of them!
The dark pied and the pied like to hang out a lot. One time when one went out of the fence the other one called it back.
Here is the cute little pied coming to Ice to see what she has.
The others come to eat...
Found you!
Ice takes them to search for more food.
I got some more pictures, Ice was very kind to let me get close and even led the peachicks two feet away from me to peck at something.
Okay first the other two pen residents...They want to be in this topic too.
Alto about to take some bread out of my hand.
Alto preening his wing.
I love Damsel's eyes!
Ice still eats out of my hand even with peachicks, but she clucks whenever she walks up to me to get the food.
Here is the white peachick under Ice. The white one is kind of a loner and only really hangs out with Ice.
Finally I got a good picture of all of them!
The dark pied and the pied like to hang out a lot. One time when one went out of the fence the other one called it back.
Here is the cute little pied coming to Ice to see what she has.
The others come to eat...
Found you!
Ice takes them to search for more food.
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Minx,
Can you please send me the photoes of your two-year old Alto's opened wings when he is sunning itself on ground, or preening so I can see whether Alto is in wing moult or not in wing moult. Big orange wing feathers are primary feathers, the big blackish-blue wing feathers are secondary feathers.
Train feathers are upper tail coverts feathers while big grey tail feathers are real tail feathers. I would like the photoes of real tail feathers so I can see the tail moult, you have to photo Alto, behind him when he is displaying.
Since my peafowls were sold when my male peafowl had 1st adult plumage, the same plumage your 2-year-old Alto have, this left me with a bigger gap in moults & plumages between 1st adult plumage and adult plumage.
Male peafowl have to pass the 4 plumages through 4 years, before he have longer train feathers.
1) Juvenile plumage
2) Immature plumage
3) 1st adult plumage, short barred train feathers.
4) 2nd adult plumage, plain green short train feathers, with fewer eyes on feather tips.
5) adult plumage, longer colourful eyed train feathers.
Your peacock Alto is wearing his worn 1st adult plumage, with short barred train feathers, and is on way to enter the 2nd adult plumage, with shedding of longer barred train feathers, leave the dark brown real tail feathers for you to see. But with my peafowls been sold I do not know how long Alto take to renew the train feathers.
The eyed feathers that arrive on trains of peacocks in 2nd adult plumage, at age of 2 year old, are the last 2nd adult plumage, that will arrive in green train, during autumntime.
In Alto the barred train feathers are yet to shed and some new feathers may have colourful eyes on tips of feathers, they will be seen in 4 months time.
After Alto finishes moulting during wintertime, he will only have fewer eyed feathers.
Numbers of eyes and length of trains on 2-year-old peacocks in 2nd adult plumages, are variable slightly, with bigger well fed 2-year-old peacocks have more eyed feathers, than 2-year-old wild peacocks which have fewer eyed feathers or no eyed feathers on green train.
I had never studied 2-year-old peacocks in 2nd adult plumage yet.
I faced the problem of try to send you my photoes of my peachicks via this forum and I don't know how to do....
Can I have your email address please ???
I enjoyed looking at your photoes of your lovely peachicks and I hope to see them growing bigger.
Cheers
Clinton.
Can you please send me the photoes of your two-year old Alto's opened wings when he is sunning itself on ground, or preening so I can see whether Alto is in wing moult or not in wing moult. Big orange wing feathers are primary feathers, the big blackish-blue wing feathers are secondary feathers.
Train feathers are upper tail coverts feathers while big grey tail feathers are real tail feathers. I would like the photoes of real tail feathers so I can see the tail moult, you have to photo Alto, behind him when he is displaying.
Since my peafowls were sold when my male peafowl had 1st adult plumage, the same plumage your 2-year-old Alto have, this left me with a bigger gap in moults & plumages between 1st adult plumage and adult plumage.
Male peafowl have to pass the 4 plumages through 4 years, before he have longer train feathers.
1) Juvenile plumage
2) Immature plumage
3) 1st adult plumage, short barred train feathers.
4) 2nd adult plumage, plain green short train feathers, with fewer eyes on feather tips.
5) adult plumage, longer colourful eyed train feathers.
Your peacock Alto is wearing his worn 1st adult plumage, with short barred train feathers, and is on way to enter the 2nd adult plumage, with shedding of longer barred train feathers, leave the dark brown real tail feathers for you to see. But with my peafowls been sold I do not know how long Alto take to renew the train feathers.
The eyed feathers that arrive on trains of peacocks in 2nd adult plumage, at age of 2 year old, are the last 2nd adult plumage, that will arrive in green train, during autumntime.
In Alto the barred train feathers are yet to shed and some new feathers may have colourful eyes on tips of feathers, they will be seen in 4 months time.
After Alto finishes moulting during wintertime, he will only have fewer eyed feathers.
Numbers of eyes and length of trains on 2-year-old peacocks in 2nd adult plumages, are variable slightly, with bigger well fed 2-year-old peacocks have more eyed feathers, than 2-year-old wild peacocks which have fewer eyed feathers or no eyed feathers on green train.
I had never studied 2-year-old peacocks in 2nd adult plumage yet.
I faced the problem of try to send you my photoes of my peachicks via this forum and I don't know how to do....
Can I have your email address please ???
I enjoyed looking at your photoes of your lovely peachicks and I hope to see them growing bigger.
Cheers
Clinton.
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Looks like you have a white, I pied (of some sort) and the other i have no idea...
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