Peep has grown a lot and is starting to get some color. I think Peep is a male so now I just need to start thinking of names...Peep now spends the day outside in a nice big wire pen. Tomorrow we will get a white peachick that can join him in there but he doesn't get too lonely when I am not out there with him. The bird feeder is a few feet away so Peep watches all the wild birds fly around and eat so that is pretty entertaining for him. Once it gets pretty dark we take him inside. The pen we have him in we bought at the feed store but we added the wire bottom. I think it was meant for chickens because it has four small little nest boxes in it but Peep uses the nest boxes to sleep in and on. Peep still is getting used to the wire floor.
This is the pen:
Here is Peep coming out of one of the nest boxes.
A close up of his face:
Here is Peep's back:
This is a wing picture you can see his white wing feathers. I think he might have white under his beak too, when he gets older I will be able to tell for sure.
His cute little tail:
He lets me rub his neck and doesn't bite me when I do that so I guess he is fine with it.
This picture with my hand on him kinda shows how big he is now. He is busy eating.
Peep on my arm.
Getting a drink...I remember when I worried about him when I first took all the marbles out of his water, but I know he understands about drinking his water now.
Almost every time I go outside to visit Peep he starts displaying at some point. Here he is displaying and pecking my hand.
My dad's friend has two adult peacocks that him and his wife raised and he warned us that it might be cute now to have Peep on my arm and everything but it isn't as fun when you have an adult peacock trying to fly on top of your head. His peacocks follow them around all over the yard and beg for food. Maybe I am creating a little monster here but I do love Peep a lot. I guess you need at least one peafowl that is really people friendly to make things interesting.
This is the pen:
Here is Peep coming out of one of the nest boxes.
A close up of his face:
Here is Peep's back:
This is a wing picture you can see his white wing feathers. I think he might have white under his beak too, when he gets older I will be able to tell for sure.
His cute little tail:
He lets me rub his neck and doesn't bite me when I do that so I guess he is fine with it.
This picture with my hand on him kinda shows how big he is now. He is busy eating.
Peep on my arm.
Getting a drink...I remember when I worried about him when I first took all the marbles out of his water, but I know he understands about drinking his water now.
Almost every time I go outside to visit Peep he starts displaying at some point. Here he is displaying and pecking my hand.
My dad's friend has two adult peacocks that him and his wife raised and he warned us that it might be cute now to have Peep on my arm and everything but it isn't as fun when you have an adult peacock trying to fly on top of your head. His peacocks follow them around all over the yard and beg for food. Maybe I am creating a little monster here but I do love Peep a lot. I guess you need at least one peafowl that is really people friendly to make things interesting.
