Show off your Peas!

[zazouse]

AWE there is my buddy, how is he and his girls doing? thank you for posting this, i sure miss is silly peabutt

 

[Birdrain92]

There are a few breeders in Texas i can go to, i can do a road trip do me good to get away for a couple days, i been selling alot of birds this months so i will be bringing home more than just silvers when i go, i want babies so i got to wait till next breeding season.
I can not decide weather i want bronze ,opals or pure greens just yet but if i am going to make a trip for silvers i am coming home with another color for sure

I vote Opal

 

[KsKingBee]

What beautiful peas! I love their color. They are really nice looking.
I bet it is some kind of wrangling to get them where you want them to go.

It's just a matter of training. I let 41 peas out every day to free range and they all, most always, come in the pen at dusk. I feed them every morning and about an hour later when they have cleaned up what I fed them I open the gate and let them out. Then at around 4:30pm this time of year, or a half hour before sunset, they see me coming with the feed bucket they come flying back to the pen. I call for the stragglers yelling 'PEABIRD!' and it doesn't take them long to come scurrying back. The only problem is when they hang out around the deer feeder too long and are not hungry, sometimes I will have one or two who want to stay out all night but not often.

 

[KsKingBee]

It is just beautiful outside today, so I had to let the new kids out to play.

Nice birds! I bet they really appreciated being outside after being cooped up for so long.

 

[KsKingBee]

Here is a pic of my peas

Nice of you to install a slipper slide for them!

 

[KsKingBee]

@casportpony ...I love your new avatar!

And - great new pictures, everybody!

1499 to go! Love the pics everyone!

 

[KsKingBee]

HEY!!! Where's my MAMA??

 

[DylansMom]

Nice birds! I bet they really appreciated being outside after being cooped up for so long.

The Purples were cooped up for 8 days and the others for 11 days, that's not all that long is it? They are still not allowed to mingle though, that will be another 2 weeks or so.

 

[KsKingBee]

The Purples were cooped up for 8 days and the others for 11 days, that's not all that long is it? They are still not allowed to mingle though, that will be another 2 weeks or so.

No, that's not long at all especially when they have that big old barn to run around in. My Purples are cooped in a smaller pen than that waiting for me to get the run built. I got an idea, I'll PM ya. My Purples are so tame even in close proximity, they eat right out of my spoon like all the chicks do.

I have been integrating some of my young ones in with the adults, they are not hurting them but I feel sorry for them all the same they are so scared of the older ones. They have been in adjoining pens so they have been able to see each other all along, but all the same the pecking order has to be established.

 

[jldward]

That pic of Patch was actually the day I brought him home, but I wanted to assure y'all he's ok. I promise to try for more current pics in the next couple of days. Yesterday we let my layers out & decided to attempt to treat the peas by putting 3 stock panels in front of their pen, basically enlarging it, to let them out a little. They did ok, but it wasn't long before Patch hopped his happy self up on top of his pen. Finally coaxed him down & back in the pen they went. Will be so happy when we can let them roam, but just not yet.