Peachicks of 2016 photos -- Let's see the babies!!!

[BYC-user-174785]

Nice peachicks! I finally am starting to get eggs (only one hen is laying here). I do not believe any of our loaned hens are laying.

@Garden Peas that chick definitely has different coloring. I would be interest in seeing more pictures of it.

 

[barkerg]

Nice peachicks! I finally am starting to get eggs (only one hen is laying here). I do not believe any of our loaned hens are laying.

@Garden Peas that chick definitely has different coloring. I would be interest in seeing more pictures of it.

X2,

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Gerald Barker

 

[Garden Peas]

Nice peachicks! I finally am starting to get eggs (only one hen is laying here). I do not believe any of our loaned hens are laying.

@Garden Peas that chick definitely has different coloring. I would be interest in seeing more pictures of it.

Which one? There's a dozen of them running around here, and quite the assortment of peamutts, too!

 

[BYC-user-174785]

How about pictures of all of them! You can't go wrong with that. But it would be interesting to see the Opal Silver Pied hen's offspring.

 

[Garden Peas]

You spring chickens have all the energy! Okay, I'll work on it. The two youngest are totally adorable, and both from your hen

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Finally, my first pea chick hatched this year!

I set several first eggs under the Silkie hens but I think Superman has not been able to convince his ladies he is THE man. I have seen him breed one of his hens but so far the first of the eggs from that pen did not grow. That is alright, I think I have at least 8 more under the Silkies from them. Superman is a purple peacock I picked up this year and put with 3 IB BS hens, Charm, Stars and Celebrity.

The Opal WE hens are in with my silver pied, Velocity and they are laying well.

I got my first Bronze egg today from my Bronze peacock, Hershey, over his 2 daughters Dove and Kisses. I lost their mom, Godiva to a freak accident and do not have any other Bronze.

The IB peacock, Mojo is hopefully getting busy with his IB hens, JuJu and Hoorah and I have set some of their eggs. They just came home from the other peafowl place about 4 months ago so I have never gotten to hatch from them before.

Jack, my one eyed purple and his lady, Roche, have given me one egg.

Zazous, the silver pied peacock I named after a great lady here on BYC, and his Dilly have given me a few eggs.

And the most thrilling thing for me is the first hatch of the year.
My Cameo Peacock and my Peach hen gave me their very first offspring. I am so proud of them! They are both around 6 years old (or more) and she has never laid all that well til this year. So far she has given me 6 eggs!
The pea chick hatched under a Silkie but I brought it into the brooder because the Silkies are sitting on a lot more eggs.

I was beginning to think Peachy was sterile or something since she rarely laid and I never could hatch what she did lay. I think I made her happy with the pen she is in now. Cameo is her childhood sweetheart since they grew up together since hatch and have always lived together.

 

[Garden Peas]

Yay! Beautiful!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Thanks!
The most exciting part is the age on this pair and her not laying well for years!

I thought they would just be nice pets and I put them in a pen in my front yard/pasture where they can't even see the other peafowl but can hear them on the back of the farm. I guess Peachy likes it there because she has laid very well and I hope to get a few more pea chicks from them! Just because I can!

And oh my, what an addiction!

Like the others I have in breeding and all the pea chicks I hatch each year is not enough......

 

[WestKnollAmy]

CameoXPeach chick #2 is pipping out now! Photos to follow!

 

[new 2 pfowl]

So happy to see cute peababy pix!!!