Show off your Peas!

[Birdrain92]

Colbolt and Sage! Colbolt is growing in a nice train this year. I wonder how long it will be this year.








I love the photos of flight especially with a train.

Shadow and Shades our Border Collies

One of our cats enjoy sitting on the hood of a warm truck.

 

[Garden Peas]

Quicksilver's train isn't all in yet, but he decided he wanted in on the action this morning:



Because Big Blue is still stomping around showing off how handsome he is:

 

[Birdrain92]

Quicksilver's train isn't all in yet, but he decided he wanted in on the action this morning:



Because Big Blue is still stomping around showing off how handsome he is:

What kind of Silver Pied is Quicksilver? I something that looks black, is he a Charcoal Silver Pied? My male has yet to fan in front of me. So far the only peafowl fanning is my hen Thora.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

That is an Opal Silver Pied peacock which looks awesome! @Garden Peas I would love to see pictures of you hens you got from me especially the Opal silver pied.

 

[Garden Peas]

What kind of Silver Pied is Quicksilver? I something that looks black, is he a Charcoal Silver Pied? My male has yet to fan in front of me. So far the only peafowl fanning is my hen Thora.

He's an opal. The colored feathers on the back of his neck are darker than the ones on his shoulders & back (the "wing saddles"), which are frosted. The opal feathers on his neck are iridescent gray, and they literally shimmer and change colors in the sunlight just like the gem opal does. Everything looks a little darker in the photo because of the angle and the contrast with the brilliant white.

It's pretty funny, because PeaLover130 thought of the name for him... and she had no idea that "quicksilver" was an old word for mercury. He is very much the color of mercury. So the name is just right.

 

[Birdrain92]

That's a good name! I was thinking Silver was short for Silver Pied and he moves really quick.

 

[Garden Peas]

That is an Opal Silver Pied peacock which looks awesome! @Garden Peas I would love to see pictures of you hens you got from me especially the Opal silver pied.

Thanks, @Bluecreekfarms ! The hens are doing great... they are almost as big as the grown birds now. I can't believe how fast they are getting big. I will try to get photos of them. They are hard to photograph because they scoot around really quickly in the pen so the big birds can't peck them, and when it is cold like this, they like to hang out on the carpeted roost in the bird house and mostly come out to eat. When it's a little bit warmer, they like to sun bathe, especially the purple. The one that you hatched is named Diamond, and the purple is, I think, Topaz... there was another name, but I think she ended up with Topaz. (I can't keep track of all the names all that well

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The big birds let the not-so-wee peas sleep on the roost with them these days, but sometimes I can tell whether or not the big hen has laid her evening egg yet, because she kicks the wee peas out of the house

I'll look out and there will be peas (the purple and the big lame boy) milling around outside the pen door, and I can catch glimpses of the big hen marching around inside, and I know it's not time to go pick up the egg yet.

 

[Garden Peas]

That's a good name! I was thinking Silver was short for Silver Pied and he moves really quick.

I think that's maybe what she was thinking too, she said something like that...

Have you ever seen mercury in a test tube or rolling around in a ball? It moves really fast. But the old meaning of "quick" was "alive" -- the mercury is liquid at room temperature, and it looks like silver that moves or is alive.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Quicksilver's train isn't all in yet, but he decided he wanted in on the action this morning:



Because Big Blue is still stomping around showing off how handsome he is:

Pretty birds!

 

[Birdrain92]

I think that's maybe what she was thinking too, she said something like that...

Have you ever seen mercury in a test tube or rolling around in a ball? It moves really fast. But the old meaning of "quick" was "alive" -- the mercury is liquid at room temperature, and it looks like silver that moves or is alive.

I've seen Mercury. It's cool seeing it roll up into a ball.