Official stud-book PMI-TN for Pavo Muticus Imperator

[Dany12]

I realize that the neck of the green peafowl is in matte color ... it doesn't shine at all !
Wings and back is really brilliant!
So the brilliant feather color of spalding peahen neck and chest come from Cristatus!
Even the Cristatus hens have brightest neck that green peahen!
At a young age green peachicks are brilliant!

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Also, do you give the peanuts whole or chopped? Are the peanuts cooked (roasted) or green? Or do you mean something like a chickpea?
It never occurred to me to feed peanuts to the peas, but they do have a great deal of protein, I think...

@Garden Peas - I'm not sure about @Pfauenfreund 's beauties, but our gang here absolutely adores whole roasted, unsalted peanuts (not in the shell of course). They're a favorite treat!

 

[Garden Peas]

@Garden Peas - I'm not sure about @Pfauenfreund 's beauties, but our gang here absolutely adores whole roasted, unsalted peanuts (not in the shell of course). They're a favorite treat!

What a good idea

We will have to try it here

 

[KsKingBee]

@Garden Peas - I'm not sure about @Pfauenfreund 's beauties, but our gang here absolutely adores whole roasted, unsalted peanuts (not in the shell of course). They're a favorite treat!

Mine saw peanuts for the first time a couple of days ago. They were curious at first and then walked off. I then shelled a few and some of them really liked them. It's like my little cousin said after having pizza for the first time, 'Well, I can't get used to it and likeing it at the same time'.

Mine were not roasted, they are raw from my garden a few years ago....

 

[zazouse]

Mine love fresh peanuts as well once they get use to eating them you can just break a piece off of the shell where they can see the peanut and they will learn to break them open well some of them will some swallow them shell and all

There was a young man here working on our building he loved animals so on his break i gave him a bag of peanuts to feed them while he was shelling them Patch snuck up and stold the whole bag and ran off with them, i haven't laughed that had in years.




















He finely got the bag back but it was empty cause Patched grabbed it from the bottom and spilled all the peanuts

 

[Garden Peas]

Go, Patch, go!

 

[Pfauenfreund]

I buy the peanuts raw without shells. Normally in a bag of 25kg. At the beginning they are looking a little bit droll, but if they get used to, they nearly would die to get some.
If you have a shy one, with peanuts you get it tame. I always give them in the evening some peanuts. I use the peanuts to check the bird’s conditions too. Normally they are more and less driving crazy when they see me with the peanuts. If once a bird is acting a little bit different then I know I have to check the health condition. So I could prevent that any of my imported green peafowl died. Because I realized always at the first day that something is not ok and I could react immediately.

 

[Pfauenfreund]

Here are some actual pictures of the offspring from 2014. The males are between 7.5 and 8.5 months old and the young hen (last picture) is 5.5 months old.

 

[KsKingBee]

Nice birds, thanks for sharing!

 

[Pfauenfreund]

The breeding season 2015, starts very early!

Last Monday, the 23.02.2015, when I went in the evening though my barns, I found for my surprise the first green peafowl egg. Despite the fact that the winter is still going on and the animals were not out in the aviaries for six weeks.

I observed already the last 2.5 weeks that some of the hens have started to change the yellow colour in the face, which is normally an identical sign that they will start laying soon (but I couldn’t believe it really).

One day later (24.02.2015) I had the chance to let them out for some hours into the aviaries and then there was really something going on. The males had a matting race and you could hear their callings all the time.

Let’s see what the new breeding season will bring us.
I wish all much success.