Show off your Peas!

[zazouse]

Yea they learned about sparing this year, the only damage they seem to find is to their legs and i still can figure out of they are spurring themselves when they fly up with feet foward or each other cause they hardly ever touch each other in the leg area, more like Matadors in a bull fight . however they are doing it it can be a bloody mess dripping down one of both legs and they limp around for a few days sometimes.

 

[casportpony]

One of my has done that to me and my precious P-Dawg chases Mike around the yard and does it to him. Sigh, the downside of imprinting.

-Kathy

 

[MinxFox]

Oh wow so P-Dawg has gotten that bad? Yikes sorry about that hopefully when breeding season is over he will calm down.

My boys don't get bloodied up thankfully. Normally when one is losing he will run and jump into the dog box and then will come out after the other male chills out. No one is fighting anymore though. Frosty was normally the instigator and after he started shedding his train things calmed down. Maybe I should say things have gotten peas-full.

 

[casportpony]

Picture this... Our front door faces the sliding doors to the back and P-Dawg chased Mike in the front, then ran around the house to great him at the back door, lol. I was laughing, Mike was not amused!

-Kathy

 

[DylansMom]

I was wondering if other people's birds were dropping trains. I hate seeing them shed although it is always fun collecting feathers. Is Master P your dominant peacock or the oldest peacock? I was starting to wonder if dominance was in connection to a peacock keeping his train longer since Alto looks as if he hasn't lost any train feathers. Frosty shed his train first because he is a spalding. The greens and spaldings shed their trains first then come the India Blue varieties.

Here the white males shed first, followed by the pieds, 4 of my white males are completely without trains, 2 are shedding now and 1 hasn't started, 1 pied has shed, and 1 India Blue BS has shed, none of the greens or spaldings have started to molt yet.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

My spalding molted his train first. The opal we still has not lost a single feather yet. The hens in the spalding's pen were done laying, and one is broody. However, the opals were laying and one hen just stopped laying the other day.

 

[zazouse]

Picture this... Our front door faces the sliding doors to the back and P-Dawg chased Mike in the front, then ran around the house to great him at the back door, lol. I was laughing, Mike was not amused!

-Kathy

 

[margaret8]

Picture this... Our front door faces the sliding doors to the back and P-Dawg chased Mike in the front, then ran around the house to great him at the back door, lol. I was laughing, Mike was not amused!

-Kathy

That is halarious!

 

[MinxFox]

Here the white males shed first, followed by the pieds, 4 of my white males are completely without trains, 2 are shedding now and 1 hasn't started, 1 pied has shed, and 1 India Blue BS has shed, none of the greens or spaldings have started to molt yet.

I guess not all greens and spaldings shed first then. Josh told me all his greens and spaldings shed first. Then they are the first to grow back their train. When I visited his birds last fall the green peafowl certainly were growing their trains in faster. I think he feeds his greens and spaldings a different mix of feed to improve their facial color so maybe that has something to do with it.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

My green peacock shed first this season, on the other hand the spalding bronze didn't drop any feather yet.