Losing Peafowl Question.. Should I worry..

[texascowboy1979]

Ok.. Quick Question..

I live on 400 acres... and My IB peafowl have the run of the Ranch... last night about 11pm I was outside admiring the birds in my chair... and my peafowl started calling, and between there calls, I could hear a peafowl in the distance... about 1/2 a mile mabye more away... i know its not my peafowl beacuse I have 11 running loose and they are all acounted for...

Should I be worried that they may go over ther to investigate? or will that other peafowl cover over here to investigate? I feed my birds every mornig... and every other day in the evening...

They always forage.

Thoughts.. Idea... advice..

Thanks

 

[NateinFL]

I'd guess that if you had extra males around and especially if you had one or two that were getting picked on, then they'd certainly have a desire to stray.

 

[texascowboy1979]

Ive got 5 males loose and 6 hens running around... THey are all March or April 09 Birds...

 

[Kev]

Peafowl are highly attracted to sounds of other peafowl. You can't ever know what will happen. Maybe some or just one will decide to walk over there.. or maybe some of theirs will come to see yours. Maybe yours will decide to stay over there, either for a couple days, a month.. then come back or stay permanently. Or their birds will come over and do the same.. either go back or stay.

Peafowl have shown up in my yard various times over the years.. some disappeared after on day, never saw them again.. some became regular visitors.. a few stayed permanently. (I don't encourage those to stay) My free range seem to not be very interested in going over there... a few have disappeared but suspect they were trapped and kept more than anything else- all visiting birds were blues while my free range ones were "rare colors" such as whites, pied, opal, opal black shoulder, spalding, BS spalding and even some pure javas. Neighbors have told me they witnessed passer bys trying to catch my peafowl if they happened to be outside of my yard. With your 400 acres... prob not much of a problem with this lol.. but still, if you have different colors and the locals don't, they may get excited and want to keep them.

This is why I always recommend to people who intend to free range to get multiple birds, 2 males and 3 females at the very least.. that way if one is lost, no big deal.. plus a larger home flock size should reduce the temptations of the birds going off for a visit.. they have all those buddies right here, so...

 

[texascowboy1979]

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Regarding there locked up buddies.. I have 1.2 Javas.... and 3 greens locked up.... as soon as Im done with my two projects... I plan on locking up the pieds and white... and just leave the IB Loose...

Im not sure what to do with 1 female cameo....

 

[Kev]

Throw cameo with the pied... babies will look blue, some with white on wings/chin. Boys will be split cameo.. you can either breed back to the hen or each other to get pied cameo(all cameos will be females though) either get new cameo or breed these back to the split blues to get cameo, cameo pied in both sexes.

If pied cameo not your interest, just let her run with the IB and might eventually have cameos show up in the free range group down the line. Same thing, only her sons via the blues will be split cameo.. however these split sons will throw cameo daughters no matter who they breed with.

 

[texascowboy1979]

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Ok... lets see if I got this...

Pied mix...

Pied with pied will produce all pied correct?

Pied with Cameo will produce all IB correct? The male babies will be split and the female babies will not be split.. correct? Then if I breed her with her son, the babies will be cameo and some IB... do you know the sex or its up in the air?

If i breed the babies to each other Ill get some pied cameos?

Thanks for your help..

 

[deerman]

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Ok... lets see if I got this...

Pied mix...

Pied with pied will produce all pied correct?

Pied with Cameo will produce all IB correct? The male babies will be split and the female babies will not be split.. correct? Then if I breed her with her son, the babies will be cameo and some IB... do you know the sex or its up in the air?

If i breed the babies to each other Ill get some pied cameos?

Thanks for your help..

Pied X pied = 25% white, 25% dark pied ,and 50% pied.

Yes is you breed her back to her son , you will get cameo in both sexes.
If you breed her sons to IB hens , you will get blue males some split cameo, you will get female in blue and cameo