Peafowl and Grass.

[coloradopeafowl]

Hey just wondering if i planted grass in one of my peacock cages would it survive the cage im wanting to test it in is 30' by 24' and 14 feet high
Nick

 

[deerman]

All my pens have grass growing in them now. Depend on your area. my breeder pens are 12 X 36 with 5 to 7 birds each...heck looks like i need to mow the weeds down..

 

[Kev]

Grass? What's that? (desert & way too many gophers here!)

 

[coloradopeafowl]

Deerman- All my pens have grass growing in them now. Depend on your area. my breeder pens are 12 X 36 with 5 to 7 birds each...heck looks like i need to mow the weeds down..

thanks thats very helpful i was wondering because the weeds were going crazy in the new cages and as soon as i moved the birds into them it seemed like it was dirt within the next week.

 

[deerman]

We have had lots of rain,and lots of warm days. So great year for grass here. Some years they keep the mostly bare. Now i house them all in a large flight pen after breeding season, they will get the ground bare in there before long.

If planting grass it would need a good start,before putting birds in.

 

[coloradopeafowl]

Ok i understand now, beautiful bird in the pic is that a Peach WE, and by the way do you still have hens laying? Seems like mine stopped a little early this year, about two weeks ago.

 

[deerman]

yes Peach W.E. , yes still getting eggs, about 1/3 of my hens are laying .Other have stopped, 2 peacocks have drop their trains.

 

[coloradopeafowl]

I didn't get near as many eggs this year as i did last year. Only seven eggs out of my spalding pen and i have three hens in there

He's beautiful! I really want to get in to peach and bronze.

 

[deerman]

I don't raise the greens. The main colors i do raise are peach,bronze,and charcoal. The pattern i like best is the silver pied.


Peach I have in all the patterns. (W.E., Pied, BS, Silver Pied, Barred wing, also spalding)

Charcoal try to get high % spalding ,to improve the problems with them. Also getting them in silver pied

Bronze adding more pattern in them.

 

[coloradopeafowl]

Do you ever sell eggs, chick, yearlings in peach and bronze colors