Show off your Peas!

[frenchblackcopper]

Violettas are coming here next,hopefully before end of May

 

[Christabelle]

Christabelle Beautiful Bird love the Train, I am really starting to like Bronze.

Thank you so much!!

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Arbor,as you know Charcoal seems to age at an increased level compared to other peas. The father of my Charcoal dark pied w/e male died a few weeks ago at age 7. Bigcreekpoultry is wanting to have a necropsy performed but when her Charcoal was injured in Novemeber her veterinarian noticed while doing an x-ray of the lung area that the lungs themselves seemed to be "aged" much more than a normal 7 yr old peas lungs would be.I'm very good friends with Jeanna at Bigcreek,we speak often and her Charcoal male meant a lot to her. At present my male Kingsford is the only breeding aged male with the same genetics as his now deceased father and my male will be 3 years old this summer.So the race is on to hopefully get as many offspring as I can from my male because he too may only have a few more years left.

 

[zazouse]

Arbor,as you know Charcoal seems to age at an increased level compared to other peas. The father of my Charcoal dark pied w/e male died a few weeks ago at age 7. Bigcreekpoultry is wanting to have a necropsy performed but when her Charcoal was injured in Novemeber her veterinarian noticed while doing an x-ray of the lung area that the lungs themselves seemed to be "aged" much more than a normal 7 yr old peas lungs would be.I'm very good friends with Jeanna at Bigcreek,we speak often and her Charcoal male meant a lot to her. At present my male Kingsford is the only breeding aged male with the same genetics as his now deceased father and my male will be 3 years old this summer.So the race is on to hopefully get as many offspring as I can from my male because he too may only have a few more years left.

Frenchy if this is true is it a good idea to keep this in the gene pool? or is it related to color only?

Thanksd for posting all the pretty photos

 

[Christabelle]

Charcoal is gorgeous, but when I was looking to purchase my birds I found out the charcoal hens don't lay, and charcoal birds don't live as long. It's a pity since they are so beautiful. I will not support the color, since it carries health issues.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

This is why so many people has crossed other colors with them.Some has tried spalding as a hopefull cross to add longetivity to this color. Zaz I'm sure it took several years after this color was found in the zoo to know 100% charcoal hens don't lay eggs and I'm sure breeders were all scratching their heads when their males died at such an early age. I'm sure the internet has helped close the gap in communicating these problems within this one color but I've never heard of a Charcoal male living past about age 8.Bigcreeks Charcoal male Smokey was first injured by a predator in November. He was on the mend tho then one day his appetite fell off and that was it. This color for aging about 3 times quicker than other colors seems to reach sexual maturity later than other colors.I keep very accurate records of eggs laid,date it was laid,date it went into the incubator,and then the final result.I was getting so depressed with these either non fertile,or quitting eggs that I never tallied the numbers up but they are not good at all.So this year I am hoping to get more than 1 egg from my Charcoal pen to hatch out this year.

 

[zazouse]

Gotch

 

[el pollo rey]

Here are some recent pictures. Our India Blue peahen has started laying, so I am expecting her third egg tomorrow! I had to catch our blackshoulder peacock today, so I had some chances to take nice pictures, which I usually am not able to considering that he is the most shy and timid bird I have. Also, I think I want a new avatar now. I don't like my current one. Which picture of the above square ones would you recommend to use as my avatar? Three or four are not square, so there are plenty of options.

The last ,, the eye ,, striking profile

 

[Evelle]

Oh my all these photos of all of your pea fowl is making me soooo jealous!!!! I want some!!! Sooo bad!

 

[kuntrygirl]

Great pics everyone !!!!!!!!!