Peas post your peas for deerman

[Glenmar]

I am new. So I will try to post a few pictures. Deerman has already answered several of my questions. Thanks for the help.
Here's a few photos of my boy.

 

[MinxFox]

It is great to see some pictures of your peacock Glen. He is very pretty!

 

[Glenmar]

Thanks

 

[ruth]

Deerman - I've been gone from BYC for a while. I'm so sorry to hear you have been ill. I will pray for you. You were a big help with my first peachicks and even identified their colors for me when they were still very young. Here's the three males - who will be 3 years old on the 4th of July. They started reproducing last year and I did find one nest and hatched four peachicks. BUT...this year - WOW - they finally have the beautiful trains:

Blue:

Green:

Opal:

 

[MinxFox]

Beautiful peacocks! Your blue is not really a blue though, he is a spalding blackshoulder. The neck feathers have that square or sort of scale look, and he looks just slightly teal but a big givaway is that on his wing I can see a stripe of greenish scales. He is a beautiful spalding blackshoulder though! Your green is a spalding also I don't think greens will have the white on them...Also the neck feathers aren't right. Your opal is an opal white eye.

You have a really great mix of peafowl how are their peachicks doing? I love your photos that planter looks nice I bet if you got a picture of a peacock standing on it it would be really elegant looking.

 

[ruth]

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You can tell I don't talk Pea Talk. I call him "Blue". Deerman I.D'd him as a young chick as being a black shoulder so that part I knew. I think this is the first I've heard that he's a Spalding Blackshoulder and not just a Blackshoulder (if there is such a thing/difference). Deerman had also I.D.'d the green one as a Spalding when they were very young. But, for me, I call them Mr. Blue and Mr. Green, or for short, Blue and Green and Opie. I have three females - an India Blue (no name); a Purple (Penelope) and one I refer to as "the white one" (Pearl) who Deerman said was a Silver Pied (I think).

I found Penelope's nest by tracking her. She had been coming and going for almost a month and I knew she had a nest somewhere. She's the tamest of the bunch. I found her in our front pasture under a fallen tree. I debated on whether or not leave her and let her hatch and raise her chicks or to gather the eggs. We are surrounded by thousands of acres of woods and I was afraid something would get her and her chicks if I left her out there so when she came up to eat one day, I slipped out there and got the eggs. They hatched about 3 days later. One died hours after hatch. The other three got to be about 3 weeks old and I started letting them out, as I had their parents, and as I do all the chickens and birds on the farm. Well the three ran off and weren't seen again. One came back a few days later, weak. I penned him up but he died. I was very heartbroken that I didn't end up with any. This season I'll have to watch them all more closely. I did find one other's nest (Pearl's) but by then it was almost August and she had started laying in my flower bed. I gathered her four eggs and incubated them but they never developed. By then the males had dropped what short tails/trains they had so I don't think they were fertile.

All six peafowl love to hang out in that backyard you see. Our two Great Pyrenees are back there and the peafowl eat their food and perch by my back door. They have a few chickens that live back there with them. At night they roost in the highest trees around here. They pretty much rule the roost so to speak. Every animal on this farm gives them their space and let's them take their food.

Here's the girls:

And more of "Blue"

This is where they can be found for most of the day. Right outside my back door - Master of all they survey. It's almost pathetic to see them take our two giant Great Pyrenees' food while the poor, hungry dogs just sit there and watch them eat it all:

 

[deerman]

Ruth WOW those grew into some fine peacocks.


1. blue blackshoulder
2. spalding / split white or dark pied
3. Opal White Eye....note his eye feathers....

 

[deerman]

Thanks all....so many grand looking birds

 

[ruth]

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Thanks to you and all of your initial help.

How are you feeling?

 

[Glenmar]

They are BEAUTIFUL. I love those colors.