PEAFOWL MAY/JUNE HATCH ALONG!!!!! COME JOIN THE OBSESSION!

[zazouse]

All I do is fill 2 18 gallon totes with ricebran wet it down good not to the point it is flooded, cover it up with feedbags /newspaper(not shiny add kind) and cover the tote with a board and place it in a shady or dark place and check in a couple weeks, they will be well started by then it really depends on the weather, but where you are it shouldn't takem long to be trying to get to the top under the paper or even on it.
You can grow meal worms in all kinds of feeds but they stink and I don't like to take a chance on them,
remember if you let them go to long before feeding them to your birds they turn into beetles.

 

[casportpony]

The one is out, and I'm excited. Looks to be all white with one colored wing and a dark stripe down the middle of its back. Photos to come shortly..

Congrats, hurry up with those pictures!

All I do is fill 2 18 gallon totes with ricebran wet it down good not to the point it is flooded, cover it up with feedbags /newspaper(not shiny add kind) and cover the tote with a board and place it in a shady or dark place and check in a couple weeks, they will be well started by then it really depends on the weather, but where you are it shouldn't takem long to be trying to get to the top under the paper or even on it.
You can grow meal worms in all kinds of feeds but they stink and I don't like to take a chance on them,
remember if you let them go to long before feeding them to your birds they turn into beetles.

Gonna have to give it a try... Mike just pointed out that any money I could have made selling chicks was spent on worms for them.

-Kathy

 

[zazouse]

Ain't that how it always that way? I thought it was suppose to be that way, tell Mike we must ignore that part

 

[zazouse]

I don't know about you but I spent way more raisen up my kidos than I needed to to get them all raised up

 

[PlatteRiverPs]

I'll post another after its completely dry. Looks like a small dark spot on one wing and one behind the shoulders. Sorry about the fingernails, I weeded the strawberry patch this morning.

 

[pedda munnangi]

You have a silver pied peachick. very cute. I love silverpieds. congratulations.

 

[casportpony]

Very cute!

-Kathy

 

[PlatteRiverPs]

You have a silver pied peachick. very cute. I love silverpieds. congratulations.

Seriously??

Not that I doubt you, its that I don't know how I ended up with a silver pied. Could it be from a white on white breeding or is my IB hiding something. Peacock genetics and I don't mix well.

 

[pedda munnangi]

Your silver pied chick inherited one white gene and one white eye gene from one parent, and one pied gene and one white eye gene from the other. Presence of two white genes will mask every other color even though that peafowl got other genes. A white looking bird may or may not be caryying one or two white eye genes.Give me the description of this chicks parents, may be we can figure out the genetics . Post pictures if possible.

 

[PlatteRiverPs]

Im unsure of the parents because my birds are mixed. My older birds are a cameo 3yo hen, a normal 3yo IB hen and a ?yo adult IB male.

I also have a pair of whites that are almost 2. I kind of ruled him out because I hardly ever seeing him strutting. My big IB male fans 10 hours a day and has the hens with him most of the day.