Show off your Peas!

[MinxFox]

Here is most of the gang. Peep is the peacock on the front left and Alto is on the right. The pied is Damsel, the black shoulder is Ice, the white peacock is Frosty and I think the white peahen with him is his sister Shyanne. The ones missing from the photo are Snow White and Smarty.


Here is Peep displaying. He has been displaying a lot and Alto has been good about letting him display. You can see the two double eye feathers in this photo.


Ice walking around with Damsel.


I think this is Frosty and Snow White.


Peep displaying while Alto is looking at him.


Alto pecking at my shoe. Sometimes Alto likes to peck at my shoes. I keep two pairs of plastic crocks outside next to the peafowl pen that I wear so I don't get poop on my regular shoes. Recently one of the shoes went missing so I am wondering if an animal took it.


Up close of Alto.


Shyanne sleeping.


Peep pecking my finger and Alto looking on curiously. I think if I did not hand raise Peep he would be like Alto.


My young peacock Smarty. He is for sale but I haven't been marketing him much.

Smarty with his mother, Damsel.


Me and Peep!


Frosty and his nice train.


I was watching Peep display and he walked over to the cinder block and jumped up on it and started displaying. He was turning around on it and everything! It was great! Later he jumped up onto a log and was about to do the same thing, but he saw me trying to get photos of him in the act so he stopped.

 

[zazouse]

Beautiful Group

Hard to believe so much time has passed and Peep now has a train, hope Alto don't give him to much of a hard time during mating season, course i guess if he does it will be a good excuse for a new aviary .

 

[Joe.G]

We got about 8 inches of Snow, and it is very cold out about 0 Deg the Pheasants are the only birds out in the snow, Chickens,Turkeys Peafowl Guineas and what ever else I have here are all inside.

 

[3BirdGirlz]

Very pretty Minx....all of you are

 

[destinduck]

I agree. Great birds and great pics Minxfox. Hope Alto dont whoop on Peep as well. Im getting even more ready to get Goldilocks and the younger male their own pen built cause she has become a little grumpy and pecks at all the other birds now for some strange reason even the ducks. Mainly at food time to get outta her way. Not a big deal yet Just something I gotta watch. I have a extra pen if it gets any worse. I just wonder now if when I make the new pen whether I should introduce her first in it for a month before I add the boy or both at exact same time.

 

[zazouse]

I agree. Great birds and great pics Minxfox. Hope Alto dont whoop on Peep as well. Im getting even more ready to get Goldilocks and the younger male their own pen built cause she has become a little grumpy and pecks at all the other birds now for some strange reason even the ducks. Mainly at food time to get outta her way. Not a big deal yet Just something I gotta watch. I have a extra pen if it gets any worse. I just wonder now if when I make the new pen whether I should introduce her first in it for a month before I add the boy or both at exact same time.

I would add them both to a new pen at the same time, that way the territory belongs to neither of them, my peas get territorial; about food also so i just put their feed up high and in several places.
Now that i have sold and culled most all of my chickens and guineas it is much easier all the way around.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Great pictures MinxFox, thanks for posting them! Peep's train is very nice. My white peacock loves going out in the snow, but most of the time the doors are closed since he is with the 2013 hatch peachicks. He is yellowish from the increased corn intake and it really shows against the snow. The spalding hates the cold and does not get out much. The other guys like it. I wish my Opal WE's train would grow quicker, but his few white eyes are nice. When I do get more pictures of the crew I will also get those pen pictures some of you guys requested earlier.

 

[zazouse]

Annie is such a good girl, she is pairing up with the older Pyrenees learning the ropes and they really like her.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

I agree. Great birds and great pics Minxfox. Hope Alto dont whoop on Peep as well. Im getting even more ready to get Goldilocks and the younger male their own pen built cause she has become a little grumpy and pecks at all the other birds now for some strange reason even the ducks. Mainly at food time to get outta her way. Not a big deal yet Just something I gotta watch. I have a extra pen if it gets any worse. I just wonder now if when I make the new pen whether I should introduce her first in it for a month before I add the boy or both at exact same time.

The only peafowl that were raised in the duck aviary were the spaldings, including an opal spalding and blackshoulder spalding hen. Only one green peacock remained there. He has always been fine with the ducks and pheasants. The two spalding hens however were only in the aviary for a short period of time, and they were brought back into the aviary for the winter. They obviously do not rmember the ducks or pheasants since they do not like them. The balckshoulder spalding is more tolerable. But the opal spalding hen, who just likes causing trouble always has to chase away the ducks and pheasants, especially while feeding. Even when I am trying to hand feed some ducks and pheasants away from the peafowl, she comes over scaring the other guys away and stands there refusing to eat from my hand even though she does on occasion. My Opal WE peacock who came from a home with chickens is fine with the ducks. The opals will be moved out, but I guess some of them simply just do not like other birds. Things are a bit better now with the snow since the pheasants like the snow so they are not always inside, which is where the peafowl spend most of the day.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Great pictures zazouse! I thought that guniea beak was a bloody peafowl beak! How many full trained peacocks do you have? It must be very pretty having so many full trained peacocks with plenty of peahens. How many peafowl do you have? It will be cool it you can get pictures of full trained peacocks in flight.