Show off your Peas!

[Birdrain92]

Your birds look great @DylansMom ! How quick they grow! I didn't think those particular peas were going to have full trains now.

@barkerg can you give me more specs on your peafowl? Who are they from?

@Birdrain92 we'll be on the same journey together then! Lucky for you that you have the comfort of being accepted into your dream school. I still have what seems to be forever to hear back from my top school.

I hope you get into your dream school!

 

[DylansMom]

Your birds look great @DylansMom ! How quick they grow! I didn't think those particular peas were going to have full trains now.

@barkerg can you give me more specs on your peafowl? Who are they from?

@Birdrain92 we'll be on the same journey together then! Lucky for you that you have the comfort of being accepted into your dream school. I still have what seems to be forever to hear back from my top school.

Thanks Blue Creek, it is truly amazing how quickly they grow. I wasn't expecting such nice trains either. Opie is looking like another non-groomer, he isn't stripping the sheath from those tail feathers. Guess we'll have to brush out 2 trains this spring. Anybody know if there is a reason for this? I have 1 other older male who is the same way, everybody else grooms like they should.

 

[Birdrain92]

Thanks Blue Creek, it is truly amazing how quickly they grow. I wasn't expecting such nice trains either. Opie is looking like another non-groomer, he isn't stripping the sheath from those tail feathers. Guess we'll have to brush out 2 trains this spring. Anybody know if there is a reason for this? I have 1 other older male who is the same way, everybody else grooms like they should.

Well I had a wild IB show up and I noticed some of the end train feathers still had that coating on them. My IB male Colbolt dropped a deformed train feather. I still had some coating on it near the quill and the quill was all weird and bent. Maybe it's just a spot they feel like they can't reach or it's just the bird itself maybe.

 

[DylansMom]

Well I had a wild IB show up and I noticed some of the end train feathers still had that coating on them. My IB male Colbolt dropped a deformed train feather. I still had some coating on it near the quill and the quill was all weird and bent. Maybe it's just a spot they feel like they can't reach or it's just the bird itself maybe.

Harley, our loud pied has been like this for the last 5 or 6 years. it is almost all of his feathers so I know he can reach them. His feathers are fine and normal, and we just catch him and run a wire slicker brush down the train and break the sheath up, it looks like it is snowing under him. As long as we get it brushed out early in the season he looks good, once it is broken up by the wire brush most of it will fall off as he displays and shakes his train. This is Harley's picture from last year or the year before.

 

[Birdrain92]

Harley, our loud pied has been like this for the last 5 or 6 years. it is almost all of his feathers so I know he can reach them. His feathers are fine and normal, and we just catch him and run a wire slicker brush down the train and break the sheath up, it looks like it is snowing under him. As long as we get it brushed out early in the season he looks good, once it is broken up by the wire brush most of it will fall off as he displays and shakes his train. This is Harley's picture from last year or the year before.

That's odd. I don't know then.

 

[DylansMom]

That's odd. I don't know then.

I have heard of others that had the same problem, just never heard any thoughts as to why. Guess it will remain a mystery, or maybe they are just lazy.

 

[barkerg]

Your birds look great @DylansMom! How quick they grow! I didn't think those particular peas were going to have full trains now.

@barkerg can you give me more specs on your peafowl? Who are they from?

@Birdrain92 we'll be on the same journey together then! Lucky for you that you have the comfort of being accepted into your dream school. I still have what seems to be forever to hear back from my top school.

A few of my younger greens came from a young lady in Round Rock, Tx, she has a pair of gorgeous (Muticus) greens she ordered as chicks about 9 years ago but, I cant recall the name of the breeder. The rest of my birds blood lines to include all my blues came from a man that has been a father to me and some of you may know him, Guy Dale Fisher of Killeen, Tx. Thank you for asking.

Gerald Barker

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Your birds look great [@=/u/254231/DylansMom]@DylansMom[/@]! How quick they grow! I didn't think those particular peas were going to have full trains now.

[@=/u/363539/barkerg]@barkerg[/@] can you give me more specs on your peafowl? Who are they from?

[@=/u/218804/Birdrain92]@Birdrain92[/@] we'll be on the same journey together then! Lucky for you that you have the comfort of being accepted into your dream school. I still have what seems to be forever to hear back from my top school.

Thanks Blue Creek, it is truly amazing how quickly they grow. I wasn't expecting such nice trains either. Opie is looking like another non-groomer, he isn't stripping the sheath from those tail feathers. Guess we'll have to brush out 2 trains this spring. Anybody know if there is a reason for this? I have 1 other older male who is the same way, everybody else grooms like they should.

I have no idea what causes that. I only had one peacock who had a few feathers left like that. He didn't have that problem the year before though...

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Above are some of our kids from the 2015 hatch, we just sold 3 of these over the weekend. Anybody else having issues posting since they switched to windows 10? I cannot get the pics and text to go where I want them to! What a pain. Anyway, beautiful birds everyone, love seeing them, and wanted to post some pics of my own. These were taken last week, it has finally gotten really cold here in PA and there is talk of a possible snowstorm this weekend. So far the birds have been very spoiled with mild temps and green grass in the pens, but I think that will be ending shortly. The hen above is Alhouette, a Purple BS split to pied or white, coming 2. Chemo, our SP split Peach male also coming 2. Argon, our Bronze BS split something also coming 2. Handsome, our Purple BS Pied coming 3. Opie, our Opal coming 3. Chirpie, our imprinted Spalding coming 3.

It feels like yesterday when you hatched this bronze male and we were waiting to know f he is a male or hen, now he is coming 2 and the opal coming 3.

 

[KsKingBee]

Love that Spaulding Bronze Black Shoulder!!!!!!!!!!