Red Buff Spalding FOUNDER FLOCK -digresses into peafowl in general

[trailchick]

I see the ticks on that pea's head!
I would like to see the end of crossing with spaldings. I know people like to think they are improving the IB by doing so, but once a spalding, always a spalding. To each their own. One may have what they think are IB, but are spalding.
I agree, seems to pollute the gene pool.
It is wonderful to see the different pics of other varieties from around the world - since most of us cant afford to travel the world to see them or purchase.
Thank You for posting all the info & pics on the greens

 

[MinxFox]

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Yes, I have no intention of breeding spaldings, I just want to breed greens, but I would also breed India blues, pieds, ect, but not to the greens of course. I understand that greens can be more aggressive and flighty, and need more space. I also have an idea for a cool pen design for them like a greenhouse type pen so that I could have tropical plants with them and it would feel tropical. Luckily we don't get very cold here so they wouldn't need a heated area for the winter, but maybe just a wind break. It is sad though, I saw some pictures of a green peacock at a zoo and he was missing the ends of all of his toes and I am guessing it was due to frostbite.

 

[clinton9]

Alea,
You are correct, the loss of toe tips, within claws are caused by frostbite, and that is very cruel of USA zoo keepers to let poor green peafowls suffer in cold outdoor during wintertime. Cold winters below 10oC kills green peafowls....green peafowls are like heliconia rostrata...sensitive to low temperature.

You have to have a bigger estate to own before you have huge greenhouses to keep green peafowls.
Remember that will cost your parents thousand of dollars for building a bigger greenhouse for keeping the green peafowls.

Clinton.

 

[clinton9]

Hi Resolution,
I wondered...can adult male great argus pheasant fly, like peafowls ???

I looked for photoes of flying male adult great argus pheasant, but I won't find any photoes.

Are the adult male great argus pheasant, flightless ???

Clinton.

 

[MinxFox]

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Actually we got some inspiration from a plant store because they have a pretty simple greenhouse that would be easy to make. Also we have 10 acres to work with. I wouldn't have a ton of greenhouses, maybe just one for peafowl and if I like it I might have more. We recently got 120 acres that we are currently putting a pond on and we might free-range peafowl there someday. The whole place is covered in edible berries so they would probably love it there.

Yes I think that maybe some zoos get confused with the different requirements of green peafowl compared to India blues. They might think that because India blues can handle the winters then greens can, which is pretty bad. The Bronx Zoo has a beautiful indoor aviary with green peafowl. I haven't been there but I have seen lots of photos of it. Here are some photos from that exhibit:
http://www.flickr.com/search/groups/?w=14477233@N00&m=pool&q=edua+green+peafowl

 

[FrankYLegend]

it's a beautiful exhibit though that bird, Edua isn't there anymore. He was a hybrid between Spicifer and Cambodian Annamensis.

The last time I went there there was a lone female (which escaped not long after the infamous cobra escape, funny because she was in an indoor exhibit); a young male and female are found at Central Park Zoo (the male escaped and rested onto a Fifth avenue apartment several weeks after the Bronx Zoo hen). I'm not certain about their race, perhaps Resolution can clear us up on this.

 

[Blob Chicken]

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Male argus can fly. They also tend to be real backsideholes to 90% of people. I'll have to digup the video I took of the one attacking me. I have some special names for him

 

[Blob Chicken]

Haha ,I found it !! and uploaded it to youtube.

 

[Resolution]

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Clinton, Argus are not pheasants . They are peafowl. .

Great Argus spend most of their lives on emergent trees .

When they are not on their emergent trees they come down to the forest canopy to forage on the microcosmic forest that grows on the crowns of ancient trees in old growth forests. When it is dry, the Argus come down to the forest floor where they spend a good deal of time during the dry season.

Many of the animals that live in the canopy of these old growth dipterocarp forests are specially adapted for life in the canopy.
One adaptation, which the Argus is prime example of, enables vertebrates to move from tree crown to tree crown without losing altitude. You can well imagine what a task it would be for a lizard, frog or snake to make its way from the forest floor back to the canopy 100 meters above. Unlike these reptiles, the Great Argus is capable of vertical flight and is actually- no matter how counter-intuitive it may seem at first glance- a very strong flyer. In aviculture Great Argus are rarely maintained in enclosures that mimic their preferred habitat so it's not surprising that their aerial locomotion is not described. The flight display of both sexes is not unlike that of moths. They actually soar/glide in trajectories traced from emergent tree to hill slope - and back again. In vertical flight, the elongated remiges -the secondary wing feathers are held in line with the body -folded compactly as we observe with typical peafowl flying with their trains. They also appear to have some interesting baffling ( as in sailing) going on with their secondaries that I won't go into here but it enables them ascend vertically using their tails as a third wing. Pavo peafowl also use their true tail as a third wing as do many other Gallinates- again- another topic altogether. In addition to their horizontal flight displays, Great Argus, Crested Argus and Congo Peafowl perform vertical hovering flight displays -often spiraling components which may lead to the horizontal flight display or the horizontal flight display may culminate in the vertical descending phase of the spiral hovering.

Note the placement of the greatly elongated tertial wing feathers during the ascending locomotion. It appears to be contributing to the surface area/lift of the retrices.

 

[Resolution]

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Yeah they can be a real pain. The natives call them Python Moth Bird for good reason!