Show off your Peas!

[DylansMom]

Here are more pics:

Is this your Spalding Bronze? And what does he carry that gives him the little white spot on his throat?

 

[MinxFox]

Very pretty peafowl everyone!

Birdman 55 you sure do have a big flock of peafowl now!

Q8peafowl - great photos! The first photos of the Bronze peacock displaying looks almost like his train is purple tinted.

Here are some photos from the 12th.
Frosty has claimed this side of the aviary and Alto has to stay on the other side. If he passes the metal pole, Frosty will jump on him. Peep and the peahens are allowed to go anywhere in the aviary. I wish there was only one dominant peacock, but it looks like Frosty AND Alto are both Alphas. Peep has to obey both of them but since Alto and Frosty established their territory boundaries Peep has had it pretty easy. I had to put out water the other side of the aviary because Frosty jumped on Alto just for coming over to drink. Basically now I just treat the aviary like it is 2 separate pens, because that is how the peacocks are treating it.




This is Frosty and Peep both on their favorite roost.


Frosty has started doing a lot of neck posturing. It is interesting to watch him shake his neck and curve it in different ways. He will fly down from the perch and stand tall and curve his neck looking very elegant and proud. He has good reason to be since he got the larger territory.










This is the egg from a few days ago. I got another one today under the other roost haha.


Poor Alto at the very edge of his territory. That metal pole is what separates the two territories. I find it so smart that they are using the pole as a property line!

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Is this your Spalding Bronze? And what does he carry that gives him the little white spot on his throat?

The third and fourth pics yes, he is split white and properly carrying a single copy of white eye gene without showing any white eyes in his train, because he produced my bronze silver pied chicks!


The first and second picture is my bronze bs peacock.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Frosty has started doing a lot of neck posturing. It is interesting to watch him shake his neck and curve it in different ways. He will fly down from the perch and stand tall and curve his neck looking very elegant and proud. He has good reason to be since he got the larger territory.

He reminds me of someone who bought my silver pied last week, the guy saw my peacock neck and it was like this, he thought the peacock was sick, i told peacocks do this during breeding season, but he didn't believe until I caught it for him, once it disappeared he starts to believe me! He raised many india blue peacocks for more than 4 years without noticing them doing this to their necks during breeding season!

 

[DylansMom]

The third and fourth pics yes, he is split white and properly carrying a single copy of white eye gene without showing any white eyes in his train, because he produced my bronze silver pied chicks!


The first and second picture is my bronze bs peacock.

I thought they may be pics of the 2 different birds, but when I can't see the wing feathers I'm not sure. Both are beautiful! Does the split white have any white flights on his wings?

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

I thought they may be pics of the 2 different birds, but when I can't see the wing feathers I'm not sure. Both are beautiful! Does the split white have any white flights on his wings?

Yes, he has at least 2 white feathers on his wings, last year he hatched almost everything possible, i got bronze, bronze w/e, bronze sp, spalding bronze split white, spalding bronze bs peahen split white, spalding white chick, two spalding pieds chicks, three spalding chicks split pied and bronze and a spalding chick split white. I LOVE this male!

He was penned with three hens, bronze w/e, spalding pied and a spalding bronze split white and bs.

 

[DylansMom]

Yes, he has at least 2 white feathers on his wings, last year he hatched almost everything possible, i got bronze, bronze w/e, bronze sp, spalding bronze split white, spalding bronze bs peahen split white, spalding white chick, two spaldingpieds chicks, three spalding chicks split pied and bronze and a spalding chick split white. I LOVE this male!

He was penned with three hens, bronze w/e, spalding pied and a spalding bronze split white and bs.

Wow, he's got some good genes then. I wonder who carried the SP genes?

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Wow, he's got some good genes then. I wonder who carried the SP genes?

The bronze w/e produced the 3 bronze silver chicks, i added two bronze w/e hens to this pen this year and moved the spalding bronze and the spalding pied to the bronze pied pen, i want to see if these w/e hens will produce more silver pied chicks.

 

[casportpony]

This was posted in another thread:

The kids got mad at one of our free range peacocks because he flew into a chicken pen and was chasing a rooster...

and the next time I looked outside, he had a dunce hat on! He still had it on this morning and I had to trap him to catch him to take it off!

 

[DylansMom]

This was posted in another thread:

Clever kids!