Show off your peas!!

[Kedreeva]

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I am *in love* with the silver pieds. I bought some eggs from a breeder, but the two silver pieds that should have hatch died. But the two that hatched are deathly adorable, and I am looking forward to seeing what color the dark pied is as an adult male. I don't know the genders (yet) though. You're in the land of Oz, if I recall? Hard to get new birds shipped there, if it's even possible

Maybe someone will see the same mutations happen spontaneously there!

I have 3 eggs in the bator right now.... 2 from a silver pied pen, 1 from an 'emerald pied spalding' pen. I am keeping my fingers crossed they all three make it.

 

[little blue]

yea i wish i lived somewhere warm the java green are really preety but i live in CT so it is a little to cold for them are there any other breeds of peacocks or peahens that dont do good in the cold i really like the green ones like the emerald spalding and the indo-chinese green and the java green i am really sad

that they dont do good in the cold they are really preety

ever since i saw them i loved them

 

[IWantATurbo]

sunset pic of 2 of my peas

 

[ruth]

Here's an updated pic of my three little peachicks. I've moved them out of my bathroom and into a pen outside.

I think you "experts" said the yellow ones were black shoulders - can you tell male/female yet - they look the same to me? And, any guesses on the brown one yet?

My "white" peahen (really a silver pied) either just started laying eggs or just started laying them where I can find them. She's laying in my garden, under some bushes and against the fence. A safe place in our backyard with our 5 dogs that live with them but I'm still stealing the eggs anyway and putting them in bator because if the dogs find the nest when she's off it, well....let's just say they like their eggs raw. She laid 4 eggs. The first one has been in the bator since the 27th and while sometimes I think I might see a shadow moving, when candling, other times I don't think it's fertile because I don't see any dark spot or veins. The other 2 eggs have only been in there since the 2nd when I found her newest nest so nothing there either.

I was expecting that they would be laying earlier this year. Right now it its literally109 degrees an the males have dropped their train feathers all over the place. If the third female ever laid eggs, I didn't find them. All three females and all three males just made two years old the 4th of July.

 

[Kedreeva]

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If it helps you determine what is going on, the yolk darkens when it is heated and sometimes fools people into thinking it's a growing chick in the first one or two weeks. The way I've told is to gently rock the egg back and forth- a yolk will slosh back and forth, a chick will not because the membrane holds it in place.

 

[ruth]

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If it helps you determine what is going on, the yolk darkens when it is heated and sometimes fools people into thinking it's a growing chick in the first one or two weeks. The way I've told is to gently rock the egg back and forth- a yolk will slosh back and forth, a chick will not because the membrane holds it in place.

Yeah, that's kind of what I think is happening because I don't see veins or a dark shape and I can see in there enough to tell and it moves all around. Like I said, "wishful thinking" but I'm still holding out hope - maybe the other two will produce something?

 

[Kedreeva]

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for you! Hope you get at least one from them

I have got 3 in, myself, that should be hatching next week. Two from a silver pied pen and one from an emerald pied spalding pen. We shall see!

 

[NC29mom]

OK, after looking at all the pictures on this post, I have decided to quit my job and become a FULL-TIME farm chick. I will have peafowl, turkeys, more chickens, more guineas, possibly quail and WHO KNOWS what else?? I will devote my life to caring for my animals. They will have it made. And, come to think of it, so will I!!


(wishful thinking

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[Frosty]

Candling at 2 weeks on my pea eggs, I didn't see viens and didn't see a dark spot. Just a shadow that moved when I move the egg around. On of the eggs with the 'moving shadow' made it to hatch, the other two died just before. So give it at least another week...

 

[Kedreeva]

Adding in a few peachicks from this weekend's animal swap!

Here is the opal (I think) chick:

I know it's a terrible picture, she wanted back into the cage NOW and was done taking pictures.

And two little BS (I think) chicks:

The BS chicks had a really close brush with death. The lady had them sitting in wire bottom cage with a few seabright chicks and no heat source for hours... I took them from her and they were past shivering and into laying down and giving up. They... seem to be a few sandwiches short of a picnic. I think they're still a little in shock, but they are warm and well fed and watered now, so I will hope that they turn out ok.

Is it possible to tell the difference in BS for color this early? The lady had no idea if they were regular IB BS or something else- they 'weren't her birds' and her husband didn't come to the swap to be able to say.