new to peas... questions

[Birdrain92]

Also if I see other people that use the same thing then it makes me sure

 

[Trefoil]

I read somewhere that with chicks you can sex newborns by their primaries. A pullet's primaries will be further advanced than a cockerel. It seems to work for me on chickens. Does anyone know if this holds true for peas?

 

[Yoda]

I looked at some pictures of mature white peafowls and white peachicks and the only difference I could find with the peachicks that most of the time remains in the adults is the tint. Females had more of a creamy to a dark creamy yellow on the body and I still found that creamy yellow on an adult female. Males have little to no creamy yellow on the body, and I found that an adult male was solid white but rarely found a photo were there was a bright creamy yellow right where the train begins. Pied peafowls are a mix usually between the two varieties of peafowl. So you can look at the head or body: bright brown, Male; dark brown, Female; creamy or dark creamy yellow, Female; white or little creamy yellow, Male. Wings only work with the Indian Blue plumage: orangish, Male; dark brown, Female. Those are ways of sexing White and Indian Blue peafowls. The white peafowl I still might be wrong I haven't raised any white peafowls from chicks before so I might be wrong on the white peafowl but I'm 98% sure I'm right just not 100%.

White peafowl are white and cannot be sexed when they are chicks. You can sex them when they get older by height. The male is taller then the females. There is no difference in the color all are white and no cream coloring just white. I have a lot of whites. Experienced breeders go by the height that is why they advertise white chicks as unsexed. Once they know the sex the price goes up LOL

 

[Birdrain92]

Peachicks hatch out with wing feathers and can fly within a few weeks.

 

[Yoda]

you lost me???

 

[Birdrain92]

The person above you said that female baby chickens advance further in wing feathers and the males are behind with wing feathers, they were wondering if it is the same with peachicks and I told them peachicks hatch out with feathers and they can fly within a few weeks of hatching.

 

[zazouse]

Peachicks hatch out with wing feathers and can fly within a few weeks.

More like a few days they will be fluttering around.
mine make it to the perches in the brooder in a week

 

[casportpony]

Peachicks hatch out with wing feathers and can fly within a few weeks.

True. Way more wing feather than other poultry, so cannot be sexed the same way as chickens.

-Kathy

 

[Birdrain92]

Oh well I wish mine did it that early mine it took a few weeks but I guess that is what happens when you keep them in a cage for a week after hatching. I have cats and I don't trust my cats when I have chicks.

 

[msmolly]

More like a few days they will be fluttering around.
mine make it to the perches in the brooder in a week

Zaz, is this your brooder? I was picturing a big incubator type thing. Where do you they go at night? So little do I know. Also, it doesn't look like you have a top. You don't have to worry about air-born predators there ie. hawks, eagles etc...?