Peafowl for 2013

[chickendeal]

Your birds were hatched in November?

I got my girl in november of last year and he told me she was just a year old so im figuring she is around 18 months

 

[casportpony]

FWIW, my P- Dawg hatched in October, so I think it's possible.

 

[chickendeal]

FWIW, my P- Dawg hatched in October, so I think it's possible.

he said she was a little over a year in early november right after the last jacobs cave he didn't have enough birds to go so I got her at a real great price she is full india blue and my cock just started struting his tail is about 2 foot tall and 4 foot wide but he hasn't yelped yet but oyster shell will be in the menu for tomorrow im just so excited I've always wanted peacocks since my great grandparents had them they are spoiled rotteh with cackle berries and grapes and spinach to go with the game bird crumbles and some cracked corn and feeder fish in there little pond they will try to eat the fish in the bag before I get them in the pond

 

[casportpony]

Just candled the 5 eggs that my Cochin Bantam is sitting on and *all* 5 have veins on day 6, so that's 15 that viable as of now!

Still looking for another broody for the last 5 eggs laid.

 

[MinxFox]

Thanks. Im pretty sure shes fine. Almost every bird got out of my big pen 4 days ago including her (goldilocks). Its a long story but I got everyone back (80 birds at least). except for about 2 dozen ducklings. Unbelieveable and a true miracle really. Turned out a dog was the culprit. My brother saw how he did it later one morning. The husky type dog stood up and pushed at the door before my brother ran him off. Never touched the hotwire neither the way he did it he said. Because no blood or dead birds in the pen when it happened I just assumed it was a person because the door was wide open and birds were everywhere.I happened to have the the hotwire off when he did it so some newly added ducklings wouldnt get popped. Goldilocks was 40 foot in a tree! The dog couldnt open the latch this last time because I added a lock. Goldilocks finally came down and walked in the last 5 adult ducks the next morning, I shut the hotwire off that night so they wouldnt get shocked if they showed up the next morning which they did. Glad that dog didnt try to get in that night with it off. Like I said the whole thing is a miracle and unbelieveable. Thank God for the happy ending!

Wow I don't know how I missed this post! I am glad you were able to get all of those birds back in! Ha I got worried because a few days before I was going to sell Goldilocks to you she got out of the aviary (I think the darn netting around the roost tore) and we searched and searched for her and found her high up in an oak tree. When she gets out she likes to get up high but she came right back to the aviary the next day so I am glad she did that for you too. I have had most of the peafowl out before but I don't have many peafowl to begin with so I could just imagine 80 or so birds getting out! Amazing story! Has Goldilocks laid anymore eggs? Sometimes my peahens skip a day or two before they lay another egg. I don't know if any of my peahens want to make a nest and sit on it now that the only one that started doing that was killed. I keep finding eggs in random places which is not what I would like to see. The older peahens seem to be starting to make nests. Sometimes they lay a lot of eggs before they finally lay some in a good spot and all together and then sit on them. She might nest under that bush.

 

[zazouse]

Lockdown time won't be long now, i got one moving and peeping in the air cell, it is the patched egg so lets hope it can get threw the shell. waiting on the other 3 to hear thier hatchmate

If ya'll don't hear from me it is beccause i have been experencing internet dropped signal, don't know what they are doing at the end of my drive but they got a big hole getting full of water where they dug up a major line last week, ain't seen noone down there and i have been weed eating the drive and it is 1/2 mile long so i have been out to see if they were there

I hope they fixthe line better my servise is getting as bad as my old dial up, heck i think dial up was better

 

[zazouse]

I forgot, The egg with a patch already has a name when it hatches can ya guess what it is

 

[casportpony]

Patch?

 

[zazouse]

Patch?

it was either that or elmer as in elmers glue.. this egg came from one of my white hens , i wonder

 

[kuntrygirl]

I finally got another egg on yesterday. I went into their pen and saw where they had cleared a spot by removing the hay that was in that spot. They cleared it all the way down to the sand. I noticed that and thought that was strange and wondered if they were clearing the spot to lay an egg. This was about 7:00 PM last night. Well, this morning, I checked on them and yes, one of the girls had laid an egg. I guess this is their 2nd cycle of egg laying. I hope that they will lay more eggs for this next batch of hatching. I currently have those 4 eggs in the incubator and lock-down is not until June 1, so I still have a bit of a wait. I don't think I'll put them under my hens because they are so unpredictable and play too many switching nest box games and they leave their eggs unattended to get cold. The turkeys and muscovy hens are great at being broody, so I may placed eggs under them instead of chickens. I'm hoping for more eggs. I did candle the pea eggs and it looks like all of them are fertile but I could be wrong. :/