Show off your Peas!

[zazouse]

Yea enter the golden , that is one beautiful birds plus you have the mate behind him. at least i think it is his mate.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Blue Creek,your Opal w/e Peacock seems to show pied in his throat as well? I so hoped last year I would hatch one barred winged Opal,since my male Opal b/s had a regular Opal and regular Opal P[ied hen with him,as well as 2 opal b/s hens, but all chicks that hatched last year were hens that was Opal in color. Maybe this year tho. I took my Opal pied hen and moved her in with Thang,who is a Silver pied. Maybe get a few Opal pieds this summer from this breeding

I honestly do not know. I thought the white patches were due to the white eye gene. I bought him from a lady who purchased him from some other lady. When I got him, I knew there are not many people in NY with such peafowl, so I contacted the peafowl breeder my bronze are from with the wing band number, and it was his. He told me that is probably the best opal we peacock he has raised. I was told be could be split bs.

Quote: He killed his mate. No signs prior of aggressiveness prior, and one day she is there scalped. He liked a RG hen better, but they are in a different pen for breeding season, and he is alone. Plus I probably wont find him a mate, and once I do I will have to wait for her to mature.

Yea enter the golden , that is one beautiful birds plus you have the mate behind him. at least i think it is his mate.

I will take some more photos of him.

If I get display pictures of the Opal WE, then I may enter him. Thanks for all of your input!

 

[DylansMom]

He killed his mate. No signs prior of aggressiveness prior, and one day she is there scalped. He liked a RG hen better, but they are in a different pen for breeding season, and he is alone. Plus I probably wont find him a mate, and once I do I will have to wait for her to mature.

Ouch! Well he certainly deserves to be in time out, I have a male BS pea who is currently in solitary confinement. Third year he has become overly aggressive with the hens, my Cameo BS hen still has scars and bald patches from 2 years ago. He lost his hens to a younger nicer BS this year. He actually seems to prefer sparring with other males to breeding anyway.

 

[MinxFox]

I didn't mess with the color, I can't do that with my photo software and I do not have any photoshop software. I did fiddle with the contrast which my software allows me to do, if you look at the pic it looks really bright where his head and neck is, on either side the colors look duller. I actually took the pic thru my wire fence and there are 2 blurred out wires 1/2 inch from the camera lens, they made both sides of the pic look dull and almost foggy, so I tried to sharpen that up a bit. I hope that I didn't inadvertently break any rules. I wasn't trying to change his appearance, just minimize the effect of those wires in the foreground. Every time I went in the pen he would stop fanning, so I had to take it thru the fence.

That is what his color looks like in direct sun, and yes it is amazing how different they can look in different types of light.
Here is another pic in almost the same position, but the wire in this one is in front of him, see how cloudy it made the pic like it dulled down everything, that is what I tried to eliminate in the other one, so do you think I need to pull that one and take another?

No I wasn't criticizing it I really like the photos you chose. I really like Fred he is a very nice looking green peacock.
Do you have any photos comparing one of Fred's eye feathers next to an India Blue feather? I know their eye feathers are very similar but I read that green peafowl train feathers shine more even in low light compared to India Blue feathers.

 

[elsfieldchickens]

These arnt my birds i photographed them at a breeders just thought they looked so nice

 

[Alex150o]

My white boy, once again. I know its probably too soon but has anyone gotten peachicks yet? My eggs are close to hatching.


Excuse the horrible horrible nest but thats where she chose to lay. These are mixed eggs from a white peahen and an IB peahen. oh, a one of those eggs is a turkey egg LOL

 

[DylansMom]

My white boy, once again. I know its probably too soon but has anyone gotten peachicks yet? My eggs are close to hatching.


Excuse the horrible horrible nest but thats where she chose to lay. These are mixed eggs from a white peahen and an IB peahen. oh, a one of those eggs is a turkey egg LOL

We just started to get eggs in Pennsylvania, but you are in a much warmer climate so it makes sense that your hens would have laid much earlier than mine. And for a Peacock that's a pretty fine nest, mine have just laid them on bare concrete at times.

 

[Birdrain92]

My hen refuses to lay since she wants her old nest back. Everybody that lives in Idaho in my area that has peafowl they are getting eggs but my hen won't lay without her old nest back.

 

[3BirdGirlz]

Only one thing on his mind, and it's not me getting close to get pictures lol I can finally walk up on him and he keeps fanning....but these are through the wire, so I'll have to get some from inside later if I can. And his mating call when he tries to catch her sounds like a cat dying :/ Sure love watching them in the new pen from my porch!

 

[casportpony]

Great pictures and I *love* the pen!

-Kathy