My First Peacock

[deerman]

would think in your area those eggs should hatch....the peacocks did have trains, right.


I would keep them penned until they start laying...when letting them loose, just do one, others should help call it home.


WELCOME TO THE PEACOCK WORLD!!!!!!

 

[bemba]

Can't get enough of that call..... lucky we don't have neighbours for miles

thanks deerman...... yes the boys had magnificent trains, and the breeder had hatched young from them the year before, I forgot to mention that one of the hens in the pen was a pied and the other 2 were a pair of whites, so if the pied laid the eggs, and the white being the dad,.... what do you get? It was funny when I first let the hens out with the cock he didn't seem that interested..... i mean no marked response from him, after watching them for a while i noticed him looking at the hens really close around the face and trying to pick at them really gently as if trying to groom them and they both made a really low purring sound.... never heard that sound before! The hens are only young and he said they probably won't lay this year. Am I best off clipping the wings before letting one out, and would I let the cock out or one of the hens? Is it unlikely that one would leave the others? Oh and I set the pea eggs this afternoon under a bantam rhode island white hen, should I turn the eggs for her once or twice a day? and do I need to spray them with a mistifier? Still can't believe I now have peafowl.... proud as a ... well you know LOL

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Hey we need pictures! Congratulations on your new peas & glad you are having so much fun with them. We love ours! Sending you good hatching vibes for the eggs!

 

[deerman]

White X Pied = 50% white ,50% pied..............now if dark pied

White X Dark pied = 100% pied

Myself I do not like to clip wings...grown peafowl can fly good and roost very high in trees, keeping them safe from alot of predators.

Now peahens setting for 28 days real danger of predator attacks.

Think your best bet would be raise some peachicks , before releasing the adults.

Like others have posted older peafowl are harder to break to stay home.

 

[bemba]

Thanks Terri, I will definately get some pics up soon

Deerman, what is dark pied? is that different to natural pied? and also what do you get from a white cock and a normal hen?

I know.... I can't be impatient and rush things, but I so badly want to see them roaming around looking fantastic.

My poor ducks are terrified of these new "monsters" I swear they think they are going to eat them LOL.... anyway great to know you guys are here for advice!!! muchly appreciated

 

[MinxFox]

A dark pied is a bird carrying the pied gene. It looks very similar (normally just the same) as a split to white bird. A dark pied will have white flight feathers (the longest feathers not all the flight feathers will always be white just a few) and sometimes a white throat patch. A dark pied breed to a white bird will give you all pied chicks but if you are only breeding two regular pieds then you will get a variety of chicks from pied, white, to dark pied. These are some pictures of pieds and some info on them: http://database.amyspeacockparadise.com/blue_pied.shtml

A white peacock and a normal India Blue hen will give you split to whites. This is were you need good record keeping. Split to whites can be confused with dark pieds but they are totally different. Dark pieds cary the pied gene and split to whites cary the white gene.
Here is a split to white:
http://database.amyspeacockparadise.com/whiteprimaries.JPG

Notice the white primaries. Normal India Blue primaries would be a orange rusty color not white.

 

[bemba]

Ahhh, so if you mate a pied with a normal, do you get normals and dark pieds?

 

[danischi24]

You don't need to do anything for the hen. She will turn them & keep the humidity correct. It's nature's way.

 

[deerman]

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No you only get dark pied from pied X pied =25% dark pied ,25% white and 50% pied

pied X Normal you will get normal some split white some split pied.

pied carry both the white gene and pied gene.

 

[poultrypatch]

Hey Bemba....congrats on new property and the Peahens. Eggs to hatch ? I was given 4 eggs early last June. I put them into my Suro 20 incubator. The lady that had given them to me said she didn't expect them to hatch since she had never had any luck. Hers all sit on the eggs to hatch. But, as I pointed out to her today's 'bator's are much improved over the ones of 20 years ago. Right on time the first egg hatched. Followed by 2 more. The 4th egg quit. The first one came out of the egg like gangbusters...said must be a boy, the others took their time...said girls. I was right. Really good guesses. LOL

I have a question. Has anybody ever eaten a peafowl egg ??? Lady that gave them to me said no. Very slimy. Anybody ??
Txs
Liz
MA