Show off your Peas!

[zazouse]

The dance has began for the brothers











The pups were playing in the pond but this got their attention.

 

[birdman55]

such beautiful pics zaz...like usual..hoping I can free range some of the peas that I hatch this season...whats the trick....?

 

[zazouse]

such beautiful pics zaz...like usual..hoping I can free range some of the peas that I hatch this season...whats the trick....?

Start with a small group at around 4 months of age, that way you can learn with them after that i started turing mine loose as soon as the littlest one was to big for a snake to eat if it was not with it's momma, my dogs take care of all intruders but snakes can be undetected sometimes and take a bird, never lost a pea-chick but the dogs killed a snake that had a guinea keet in it.

Like anything it is a learning experience, they can be trained where not to go but you have to be with them for that to happen and i am retired so i can do this.

The member that got my Patch is having good luck with hers setteling in i believe she only lets them out when she is there to keep an eye on them but they were pretty much trained to herd already so she got to take a short cut.

 

[MinxFox]

Haven't seen the fights start yet, but no one wants to challenge Alto this year so far. Frosty and Peep both lower their trains and walk off when Alto walks up. They are afraid to display in his presence because they know he will sneak up behind them and kick them in the butt feathers!

 

[zazouse]

he will sneak up behind them and kick them in the butt feathers!

OMG

to funny

 

[MinxFox]

Peep's real tail is already a bit ratty looking from so many butt kickings.

 

[birdman55]

thanks for the info zaz...my aunt she had a white eye ib male and her birds are free range and one day she saw him walking down the highway back to her home....and now he went to a nature preserve and she cant get him back home....I feel so bad...this was the bird



any ideas on what the mom would be....?

 

[jldward]

Start with a small group at around 4 months of age, that way you can learn with them after that i started turing mine loose as soon as the littlest one was to big for a snake to eat if it was not with it's momma, my dogs take care of all intruders but snakes can be undetected sometimes and take a bird, never lost a pea-chick but the dogs killed a snake that had a guinea keet in it.

Like anything it is a learning experience, they can be trained where not to go but you have to be with them for that to happen and i am retired so i can do this.

The member that got my Patch is having good luck with hers setteling in i believe she only lets them out when she is there to keep an eye on them but they were pretty much trained to herd already so she got to take a short cut.

Zaz, actually they're free range full time & have been for a while now. I do still worry they'll get bored, or for whatever reason, wind up crossing the (property) border, but so far, so good.

While I'm here, when we first let them out, they picked a couple of trees to roost in at night. After a few nights they roosted in one closer to the house, then back to the original, then stayed in that 2nd tree for a while. Now they seem to be trying somewhere new again. (Still on property as far as I know) QUESTION: is it normal to move around like that? With our chickens, they usually find a spot to roost & generally don't move unless something tries to get them or something happens to disturb them. I don't mind them moving around, but just wondered if that was normal?

Love those pics of the cocks in the air!

 

[zazouse]

Zaz, actually they're free range full time & have been for a while now. I do still worry they'll get bored, or for whatever reason, wind up crossing the (property) border, but so far, so good.

While I'm here, when we first let them out, they picked a couple of trees to roost in at night. After a few nights they roosted in one closer to the house, then back to the original, then stayed in that 2nd tree for a while. Now they seem to be trying somewhere new again. (Still on property as far as I know) QUESTION: is it normal to move around like that? With our chickens, they usually find a spot to roost & generally don't move unless something tries to get them or something happens to disturb them. I don't mind them moving around, but just wondered if that was normal?

Love those pics of the cocks in the air!

That is so cool, never hear how the peas i sell are doing you are the first but that is because i sought you out cause well ya ended up with Patch.
Mine tend to move around the trees but they stay in the same area except for the brothers, they roost out in the big pine by the pond and i keep a dog tethered there at night cause she is my daytime dog.

I am guessing them being so people oriented and tame that they prefer to stay rather than go cause all the stories i hear the peas disappear most of the time when they are just turned loose in a new place in a short period of time. I know from my own that the imprented ones are much easier to deal with in a shorter period of time.

 

[connerhills]

It has been my experience that peas will roost where they think it is safe . I have had some that roosted in one spot for 4 yrs or so. That was right beside the house. So I think there moving around to find a place they feel good about. connerhills