I got back from Impact yesterday, a 5 day Christian event on the Lipscomb campus in Tennessee, to find that Peep has grown a lot in just five days! Peep is already has a crest coming in and is very tall now, so I am wondering if Peep is a boy...I am still not sure. Anyways here are some pictures.
Peep makes the pen really messy.
Here is Peep in my hand, compare this to the older photo below of Peep to see just how much Peep has grown!
This shows both sides of Peep with his/her nice white wing feathers. You can also see how scruffy Peep looks, I guess it still doesn't know how to preen its wing feathers that well?
Adult Peafowl
Pip
Dragon next to my clumping bamboo (he was lying around in the shade it creates when I went out to feed them).
Alto walking through the bahia grass. Bahia grass isn't fun in your yard because it grows so fast, but for the peafowl pen I love it because the peafowl grab the end of the grass and rake their beak across it to get all the little black seeds off to eat. They really like that grass and it makes the pen look all green so I like it too.
Alto walks away when Dragon comes up. Dragon is really letting Alto know he is dominant lately because Alto is getting closer to being a threat.
Damsel is still doing well on the nest. We put some water next to her and I throw bread and other treats to her too. She doesn't pant much in that shade. She would be even more hidden if it were not for her being pied. She pulled out some of her breast feathers and my dad said he has seen turkey hens do that and it is so that they can get their bare skin on the eggs. It seems that Damsel is doing a great job and knows what she is doing.
And Ice didn't want to be photographed, just fed so I don't have pictures of her for today but she is also doing well.
Peep makes the pen really messy.
Here is Peep in my hand, compare this to the older photo below of Peep to see just how much Peep has grown!
This shows both sides of Peep with his/her nice white wing feathers. You can also see how scruffy Peep looks, I guess it still doesn't know how to preen its wing feathers that well?
Adult Peafowl
Pip
Dragon next to my clumping bamboo (he was lying around in the shade it creates when I went out to feed them).
Alto walking through the bahia grass. Bahia grass isn't fun in your yard because it grows so fast, but for the peafowl pen I love it because the peafowl grab the end of the grass and rake their beak across it to get all the little black seeds off to eat. They really like that grass and it makes the pen look all green so I like it too.
Alto walks away when Dragon comes up. Dragon is really letting Alto know he is dominant lately because Alto is getting closer to being a threat.
Damsel is still doing well on the nest. We put some water next to her and I throw bread and other treats to her too. She doesn't pant much in that shade. She would be even more hidden if it were not for her being pied. She pulled out some of her breast feathers and my dad said he has seen turkey hens do that and it is so that they can get their bare skin on the eggs. It seems that Damsel is doing a great job and knows what she is doing.
And Ice didn't want to be photographed, just fed so I don't have pictures of her for today but she is also doing well.
