Our Leap into Peafowl!

[AugeredIn]

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Just a spalding.

 

[AugeredIn]

The spalding is nice but that black shoulder is one of the best I have seen. It came out of a Brad Legg blackshoulder crossed to a one of his midnights. It does not look as blue as a blue split or as dark as a midnight so it was sold as a blue (of course split to midnight).


PS, if anyone has any blackshoulder or midnight hens they want to sell, I am in the market! The regular IB are going out to free range.

 

[MinxFox]

I thought that blackshoulder looked kinda dark. He is pretty. How many IB's are you free-ranging?

 

[lyric]

Hello OP,

Up there did you have to pull a permit for the aviary?

We are in Central FL and by golly seems everything involves "them" getting into your business. We're new to all this (moving onto our farm in a couple weeks) and we are very interested in pea fowl.

Thanks.

P.S. Is there somewhere to purchase pea fowl eggs to incubate and hatch?

 

[jensen]

B-A-B could be a good source of eggs in the spring... AugeredIn, were you happy with the birds you got from them? I think they have some good green blood. By the way, nice work on the pens!

 

[bfrancis]

Wow! Just read all 5 pages and got "caught up" on your progress. Awesome job! Looking forward to more pics and stories on how your project continues.

 

[AugeredIn]

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Fortunately, where we are permits are not an issue. My closest neighbor is my wifes parents and their house is about 750 feet from ours. The next closest neighbor is a about a 1/4 mile.

 

[AugeredIn]

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I am only going to free range three of them. The rest are going to other homes. I am also going to free range that pair of whites and the little pair of spaldings. I want to have four breeding trios by spring. The preferred types are bronze, blackshoulders, midnights and spaldings. Ally would replace the bronze with silver pieds.

 

[AugeredIn]

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The BAB guys have been great so far. I am trying to get some more birds from them right now. I don't think that they will sell hatching eggs though. I think their business model involves selling internationally more than dealing with the little guys and I certainly cannot blame them. Per my previous post they have some amazing birds and fantastic facilities.

 

[AugeredIn]

Finally finished the new aviary. A few final pictures. The only thing missing is some heavy duty chicken house cloth to provide visual barriers during mating season.