Show off your Peas!

[margaret8]

Feeding time!

 

[zazouse]

 

[zazouse]

Swallow tails LOL


Best mom in the world to all the babies and she still feeds them all.

Saying goodbye to summer

The guardians are getting their winter coats

Pesky critter

 

[Birdrain92]

I love all of those photos.

 

[MinxFox]

I love the first photo the most with the swallow tailed peacocks.

Now that you have so many free-range peas, what kind of groups do they form? Do the yearlings have their own group and the older ones have their own separate group?

 

[margaret8]

Here are my BS hens. They are 12 mo old. Do you they are split to white?

 

[margaret8]

Peep got a little impatient because I was feedi f the other ones so.....he stuck his head in the bag and helped himself!

 

[MinxFox]

It is hard to say if your Blackshoulder peahens are split to white. Blackshoulder hens look very white as is, so the only way I was able to find out that my blackshoulder peahen Ice is split to white or pied is one day she was sunning herself with her wing spread out, and I noticed a small white flight feather on her wing. She doesn't have many white flight feathers showing that she is split, but I did notice that some of her flight feathers have a tiny bit of white frosting on them as well.

I would say if some of their flight feathers are white instead of rust colored lined in dark brown, then they are probably split.

 

[Garden Peas]

Can you get photos of the sides of your hens? As @MinxFox said, look for white flight feathers down low, possibly below the rust colored feathers. Also, it is hard to tell from the photos, but can you see a white throat patch? I never noticed the one on my hen until @casportpony pointed it out

But it looks like there's a break in the color of the neck feathers on at least one of your hens, so check and see if that's white. It looks like at least one of them has white crest feathers -- I have questions about crest feathers that I'm going to put up elsewhere...

Hope this helps

 

[margaret8]

Can you get photos of the sides of your hens?  As @MinxFox
said, look for white flight feathers down low, possibly below the rust colored feathers.  Also, it is hard to tell from the photos, but can you see a white throat patch?  I never noticed the one on my hen until @casportpony
pointed it out   But it looks like there's a break in the color of the neck feathers on at least one of  your hens, so check and see if that's white.  It looks like at least one of them has white crest feathers -- I have questions about crest feathers that I'm going to put up elsewhere...

Hope this helps