Official stud-book PMI-TN for Pavo Muticus Imperator

[Peafowlssssssss]

Good luck for you and for everyone, I hope everyone gets a great success this year.

 

[zazouse]

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.

I can not wait to see the new babies

I am sending you good hatching vibes from Texas

 

[Pfauenfreund]

Thank you all for the good wishes. I hope I will get the females this year, which I missed in 2014. In 2014 I got (14,3).

But never then less first I have to bring all birds good through the breeding season and with the wild boys I have you never know what is coming next. As I wrote, the last three days they could be outside in the aviaries again and the males are running very crazy now. I hope after some days they will come down. Today I was seriously attacked by our “Rambo” and “Rocky” and my right hand looks not good now. I’m very carefully but the caught me in the barn and I had no chance anymore to draw aside.
So, this is the live with green peafowl, which are not domesticated

 

[zazouse]

Thank you all for the good wishes. I hope I will get the females this year, which I missed in 2014. In 2014 I got (14,3).

But never then less first I have to bring all birds good through the breeding season and with the wild boys I have you never know what is coming next. As I wrote, the last three days they could be outside in the aviaries again and the males are running very crazy now. I hope after some days they will come down. Today I was seriously attacked by our “Rambo” and “Rocky” and my right hand looks not good now. I’m very carefully but the caught me in the barn and I had no chance anymore to draw aside.
So, this is the live with green peafowl, which are not domesticated

Praying for a quick recovery, those spurs are very sharp.
You let your peahens do your hatching right?

 

[Pfauenfreund]

Praying for a quick recovery, those spurs are very sharp.
You let your peahens do your hatching right?

Thank you Zazouse, you are right, greens are having very sharp and long spurs, but soon or later it will recover. Whenever possible I let my hens breed. This is not always working, because the wild imported hens are acting very sensitive, but I try that all will breed natural.

 

[MinxFox]

Good luck with the breeding season and I hope your hand recovers quickly.

Do your peahens always use the nest box or do they prefer to just make a nest on the ground somewhere?
I never had much luck with my nest boxes.

 

[Pfauenfreund]

Good luck with the breeding season and I hope your hand recovers quickly.

Do your peahens always use the nest box or do they prefer to just make a nest on the ground somewhere?
I never had much luck with my nest boxes.

Since I have the new design with the camouflage net, the hens are all using the nest boxes. This works really well now. It is their instinct to hide the nest like in the wild where they are going into bushes or into high and tight grass.

In the first year I had to train them a little bit. I took away all eggs, which they laid somewhere and put nest eggs into the boxes. The nest eggs are empty peafowl eggs, which I have filled with gyp. They are looking like peafowl eggs and having a similar weight. Due to this the hens were starting to accept the boxes.

Some young hens were starting to lay from the perch and then I removed in the evening all the perches that they have no chance to go up and then they were accepting the nest boxes too. Now they are knowing and accepting the boxes.

 

[Garden Peas]

Hope your hand is better soon!

 

[Pfauenfreund]

Impressions from the mating season

These are pictures of my imported males I've made with cloudy sky on the last Saturday (28.02.2015).

 

[Dany12]

This one is younger ?