My Imprinting Adventure!

[MinxFox]

We take a small dish and put a spoon full of sugar in the water. I thought they wouldn't bond with a person after they were hatched under a peahen and have siblings, but maybe this one likes me because I helped it when Ice couldn't do anything for it. I am not really sure.

We took off the shoes and the feet are fixed.

 

[zazouse]

I hope you have a LOT of time on your hands if you are planning on imprinting...I did it last year (still have them). It was an adventure but not sure I'd do it again

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you need to update their photos in the show off your peas section, we have missed them !

I been spending way more time than I need to, heck they are so tame they got the guineas acting like them, they are imprinted also, I got 7 pearly whites that fly up on my shoulder every time I go near the pea pen.

 

[Pfauenfreund]

Be aware that imprinting is a very nice experience as long as they are young. But the situation can be very worse when they are getting adult, especially males.

I know the difference between IB (incl. all mutations) and greens. IB’s are more tolerant and not as dominant as greens. Imprinted peafowl don’t have the nature distance to humans and for some of them you are then a rival which has to be attacked.

I have green yearlings where I never can show my back otherwise they will attack me. If they are adult it will be a problem (dangerous) to enter the aviary. Sometime it is necessary to do imprinting, but it should be avoided whenever possible.

If you do it you should put it latest with 2 or 3 Month in an aviary with other peafowl to get some distance between.
This is my opinion based on the experiences I made.

 

[casportpony]

Be aware that imprinting is a very nice experience as long as they are young. But the situation can be very worse when they are getting adult, especially males.

I know the difference between IB (incl. all mutations) and greens. IB’s are more tolerant and not as dominant as greens. Imprinted peafowl don’t have the nature distance to humans and for some of them you are then a rival which has to be attacked.

I have green yearlings where I never can show my back otherwise they will attack me. If they are adult it will be a problem (dangerous) to enter the aviary. Sometime it is necessary to do imprinting, but it should be avoided whenever possible.

If you do it you should put it latest with 2 or 3 Month in an aviary with other peafowl to get some distance between.
This is my opinion based on the experiences I made.

I have a 4 year old IB that's the same way... If P-dawg, turns mean when he matures, I don't think I'll imprint one again. FWIW, I have two stud horses that are safer to be around dudring breeding season than my Alpha Boy, but I didn't pet and coo on them like I did with the peas.

-Kathy

 

[zazouse]

but they have drawn me in and now I can't help but baby them, I don't go around picking them up but they don't mind flying up and sitting on my leg or sitting beside me.

 

[casportpony]

I hear ya, the four from my incubator are the same way, and I love to pet and coo on them... Remember, I am the one that let her chick sleep under the covers, lol.

-Kathy

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Be aware that imprinting is a very nice experience as long as they are young. But the situation can be very worse when they are getting adult, especially males.

I know the difference between IB (incl. all mutations) and greens. IB’s are more tolerant and not as dominant as greens. Imprinted peafowl don’t have the nature distance to humans and for some of them you are then a rival which has to be attacked.

I have green yearlings where I never can show my back otherwise they will attack me. If they are adult it will be a problem (dangerous) to enter the aviary. Sometime it is necessary to do imprinting, but it should be avoided whenever possible.

If you do it you should put it latest with 2 or 3 Month in an aviary with other peafowl to get some distance between.
This is my opinion based on the experiences I made.

Thank you or letting me know about this. I have two eggs and only one will be imprinted. I also have I think four eggs from my peafowl that are hatching the same day. I first want to make a connection while it is young and then I will be introducing it to other peafowl as it grows until it can stay with them.

 

[casportpony]

This Gal has a very sweet mature boy, he's part of her petting zoo.

From: http://www.ponyup.biz/photoalbum.html

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[BYC-user-174785]

That is awesome!

 

[BYC-user-174785]

We take a small dish and put a spoon full of sugar in the water. I thought they wouldn't bond with a person after they were hatched under a peahen and have siblings, but maybe this one likes me because I helped it when Ice couldn't do anything for it. I am not really sure.

We took off the shoes and the feet are fixed.

That is good to know. I wish I knew that since I could have saved peachicks in the past as well as other chicks.