Show off your Peas!

[Cherokeeangel]

Need Help in IDing this one... I just inherited it. I have several India Blue Peacocks and and India Blue Peahen too but not sure if this is Male/ Female ect. Most likly part green as it has yellow face skin patchs , it also has Goldish primaries if it was a blue id say it was a young male but????

 

[frenchblackcopper]

If the picture was loaded the correct way,and more close up ot would help greatly,,especially to see what color the feathers are on top of the back.

 

[Kedreeva]

Need Help in IDing this one... I just inherited it. I have several India Blue Peacocks and and India Blue Peahen too but not sure if this is Male/ Female ect. Most likly part green as it has yellow face skin patchs , it also has Goldish primaries if it was a blue id say it was a young male but????

Yeah that's a really tiny pic and sideways... but if you want to email me the larger original, you can and I'll post it. However, if I were going to make a guess from far away, that looks like a blackshoulder female.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

I don't think it's B/S,,,way too much color behind the neck area on top of the back,,,thats what we need a better picture of.If by chance it is B/S it's definately a hen tho,,but B/S shows a "mottled" look as your hens have Kedreeva,,and the pic of the unidentified bird has what looks like an entire area of colored feathers.

 

[Kedreeva]

yeah, I was trying to reason away the turtle-shell of color on her back. I mean, she really does look BS, if that was just more spread- I wonder if it's just a specific color BS? Like, not IB, but some other color that does that? I don't see many BS around here. A bigger pic would help.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

I'm leaning towards a possible bird that is strictly w/e,,,or maybe a pied,,since it appears all wing feathers are indeed white,,

 

[DAS]

It's a blackshoulder hen. If you enlarge the photo and rotate it it's much easier to tell. The photo is kind of blurry, which is what is confusing. A white-eyed hen looks similar to a IB hen only feathers have a frosted look. At certain times of the year mine have white splotches on their backs. And they have white flights. The hen in the photo does not have white flights. It s the quality of the photo that makes it look like it

 

[lillypad268]

This is my first peachick ever and I am head over heels in love!

Who knew 10 days ago that I would be so smitten with a little bundle of feathers? We set 4 eggs- 2 were clear, 1 late quitter and this little cutie! They were the first eggs of the laying season, so I am guessing the 2 clear were not fertile. I had no idea they were so co-dependent nor that I would be completely taken with it. It paces back and forth screaming until one of us pick it up. I put 3 trainer chicks in with it for the first 4 or 5 days, but It never did like them!

I think it thinks it's human. It is sleeping on my chest as we speak. Its spends most of the day in the pocket of an old house coat with either me or my daughter carrying it around, or on our shoulder. It also likes to curl up in/under her ponytail while she lays on the floor watching TV (see pic below). Guess it is the closest thing to a wing it can get under! I can't imagine the day it is too old to stay inside. How on earth will I ever be able to leave it outside? Way back I found a website that sold "poultry panties" and I do believe if they had them big enough to fit a pea.....pea-panties

I would have to order some! Anyone else ever brood one inside your house? I am not an inside animal person AT ALL- not even a cat or dog inside-but I just don't know how I will ever kick it out!

I am so anti-inside-animal-person that it aggravates me when I go places like the ball field, racetrack, or playground and people bring their pets to poop where my kids play.......Well.... I guess I will have to get some salt and pepper to eat those words..... We leave for Texas Thursday and we already have a spot in the motor home picked out for the cage. Now, I am

...... "one of those people"!

At what age do you all usually move yours out? Anybody keeping a full grown pea inside?

Thanks so much for all the cool pics. I have chickens, chickens, and more chickens, and now about 3 dozen guinea keets, but this little fella has taken the cake! I love to look at the different colors to decide which ones I will be getting next!

Parents are IB, pure IB I think.... any idea if I have a boy or girl? I read on UPA site that you could tell cock or hen by colors at an early age. Any of you good with this? My daughter says it's a boy, but I told her not to get her heart set on either.

I know they are fragile for a few months, Anything I need to do to ensure good health? It would tear us both to pieces if anything happened to it. Feeding a mixture of game chick starter and medicated chick starter. However, I did locate a 24 or 26% medicated game starter I can pick up.

I think I have a new addiction! I set 4 more eggs Saturday! Any suggestions for a newbie would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

My little girl laying on the floor by the brooder drawing so he would stay warm under the heat lamp. She sure does love that bird!




Read somewhere you could tell sex by the wing and/or flight feathers? Any ideas?

How do you deal with their droppings? I'm going to raise mine inside as well but birds tend to poo a lot don't they?
What a cutie btw

 

[Kedreeva]

How do you deal with their droppings? I'm going to raise mine inside as well but birds tend to poo a lot don't they?
What a cutie btw

Yep, they sure do. When they are that little, their poo is pretty little and usually pretty dry. I raised mine indoors, and I just kept paper towels around. I got pretty good at seeing the "poo face" as well and could sometimes even play catch. They tend to get that look and then scoot backwards a little first. If you want them indoors, you're just going to have to accept that they are birds and you'll have some cleaning to do.

 

[lillypad268]

Yep, they sure do. When they are that little, their poo is pretty little and usually pretty dry. I raised mine indoors, and I just kept paper towels around. I got pretty good at seeing the "poo face" as well and could sometimes even play catch. They tend to get that look and then scoot backwards a little first. If you want them indoors, you're just going to have to accept that they are birds and you'll have some cleaning to do.

lol. I had a friend who had a parrot she knew pooed on the fifteen minute mark, it was like clockwork, and it flew back to its cage to poo or she'd set it in right on time. Guess it's all about knowing your animals!