Show off your Peas!

[Birdrain92]

Some of my boys are getting nekked. How about y'alls?

My male has some long feathers and some shorter ones. His middle feathers I have in my room. In just 3 full days and part of today I've gotten 91 feathers total. Unfortunately only 40 of them are the best quality while other are formed weird or missing tips. Someone broke in to my peafowl coop a few months back and clipped more than half of my peacock's train. Just the tips. How I know someone did it. Because I can't find any pieces of the feathers even to this day. No webbing, no broken parts to the quill. Just at the tip. I installed a game cam though into my peacock coop. So far no activity. If I find out who is messing with my birds they'll regret it.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

My poor Handsome Cam is looking pitiful. Peach doesn't seem to mind too much. She laid what she was going to this year and is done. Peach has a slight scissor beak so I put her food in the deep dish and she can eat much better. I have some Olive Egger and Marans grow out youngsters in the pen with them so they clean up what she can't get in the bowl and on the ground.

 

[RuzichFamily]

My guy has lost almost his whole train. No eggs from my 2 yo hen this year either. Is that out of place?

 

[Birdrain92]

My guy has lost almost his whole train. No eggs from my 2 yo hen this year either. Is that out of place?

She should have laid an egg. If she doesn't lay until next year then there's something definitely wrong.

 

[Kedreeva]

My guy has lost almost his whole train.  No eggs from my 2 yo hen this year either.  Is that out of place?

Not particularly, especially if you live somewhere non-tropical like me. My girls never lay before 3 years and my boys don't get full trains until 4 years because of the cold and short summers.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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Fascinating! I have some yearling hens lay eggs and yearling boys get a few eyes in their short trains. Usually at 2 they are laying a few eggs, at least and my boys get okay trains.
However, the peach hen is 7 this year and she laid about 9 eggs. The most we have ever seen out of her. Eating the same food with the same peacock but in a different pen.
They amaze me with how environment changes so much. I never thought about them doing it differently in Michigan.

 

[Kedreeva]

[COLOR=0000CD]Fascinating! I have some yearling hens lay eggs and yearling boys get a few eyes in their short trains. Usually at 2 they are laying a few eggs, at least and my boys get okay trains.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=0000CD]However, the peach hen is 7 this year and she laid about 9 eggs. The most we have ever seen out of her. Eating the same food with the same peacock but in a different pen.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=0000CD]They amaze me with how environment changes so much. I never thought about them doing it differently in Michigan.[/COLOR]

Yeah they also sometimes get confused about weather and seasons of we have a bad/really cold winter and can't fugue out when to lay and when not to lay. Last year (after a terrible winter) they decided that the beginning of February when there was over 2 feet on snow on the ground was in fact the time to start laying and my boys dropped their trains in May. At least This year they are all on track.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

OMG! Up there that is really strange. Down here in the oftentimes warm winter or spring, I get eggs in Feb when the boys have just started displaying. The eggs are not fertile at that time though. I have never gotten an egg to hatch before late April. Some of my boys will drop their trains at the first of July where others will hold out until Sept. It is super hot and humid down here. I am surprised they WANT to drag that weight around.

 

[Dany12]

A sect in Thailand?
They call their God ... Pavo!

 

[Trimini]

This is my baby Kevin. He is nearly 5 months old. We live in the center of Chile on a small farm. It is winter here so he still lives in his little heated house. Come spring I will have the garden aviary ready for him.