male diplays. how do hens act?

[DylansMom]

Oh my! What do you do with all those eggs?

 

[zazouse]

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[DylansMom]

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So do you sell the eggs? Do people eat them or hatch them? Guineas have fallen out of favor in our area, I had a hard time finding mine and the girl I got them from said she was probably going to stop hatching them, because she couldn't give them away. She wanted to give me mine for free, but I felt bad so I made her take a couple pea eggs in trade.

 

[zazouse]

I downsized my guinea flock last year because i have saturated the area with them, i can build my flock back up in one season if i see a market for them again in a few years, just like the peas, once i sell trios and all my eggs my area should be pretty full of peas, that is why i don't want to hatch this year.

I sell eggs keets and their meat,

 

[MinxFox]

All of my peahens pretend not to notice the peacock. They might circle around him getting a view of all angles, but they act casual about it as if they don't care. They stand there and preen in front of him, peck at the ground, look the other way, but I know they are checking him out.

This article shows a study of where the peahen looks at the peacock when he is displaying:
http://today.duke.edu/2013/07/robohen

When the peacock tries to mate with the peahen, he makes a "Weeeaaaaaaaawww" type call that sounds funny and as he makes it he runs at the peahen with his train still open. He won't chase her far, sometimes only just a few feet. If she keeps running he doesn't pursue, but if she lies down then they mate, and as they mate he keeps his train fanned out which is probably one of the more beautiful animal mattings (not that I like that topic). I have seen my peafowl mate a few times, and my peacock Peep tries to mate with my foot normally once a day (like today). He runs up making the mating call and pecks at my shoe and scratches it then backs up.

Today, when he went to try and mate with my foot, Alto (my dominant peacock) heard him make the matting call and ran up behind him and kicked him in the tail! It was funny but a good reminder that I need to separate my boys.

Here is my peahen Ice demonstrating the "Look away" technique.

 

[casportpony]

Mine are making the "mating" noise!

-Kathy

 

[country_girl011]

my boy has not started his call this year yet . but breeding season does not start here until april
he made the call last year usually followed by the hens "honking" and all the neighbors dogs barking (oops!)
but so far this year he is just showing off.
but im pretty sure the girls are taking notice.
so hopefully he will do his job atleast a little this year.

 

[KsKingBee]

They tell me April here too but a friend has already got three eggs. The weather outside is more like January than March.

 

[country_girl011]

They tell me April here too but a friend has already got three eggs. The weather outside is more like January than March.

heck our weather is horrible.
way too cold.

 

[MinxFox]

I normally get my first eggs in April.