Show off your Peas!

[Christabelle]

I have a question and someone tell me if this is cruel or not and would you do it. Has anyone ever tried putting very light ankle weights to their peas legs so that they can free range without flying away? I do let my peas out but I have to watch them the entire time because they will wander/fly off. Do you think putting weights on them to weigh them down so that they don't fly away is cruel? They will still be able to walk around but they won't be able to lift up off the ground. Bad idea?

Comments please.

I don't know the answer for 100% but it seems to me that the amount of weight you would need to keep them from flying would be too much for their legs to support. It might cause joint and tendon damage. They can still fly with those heavy tails. I would not do it myself.

 

[chickendeal]

Just had to share my girl laid her first egg EVER so eggcited I know the first is never fertile and its a good thing because it is now in a puddle from 2 days strait rain but she is turning it and trying to get it out of the puddle so im going to leave it alone she is a ib he is a spaulding/pie and she laid it before she turned 2 so yes im very happy! ! No more egg envy lol

 

[Mmmatt13]

Congrats! But who says first eggs are never fertile?

 

[kuntrygirl]

Congrats! But who says first eggs are never fertile?

That's what someone said about my first 13 turkey eggs and ALL of them hatched. Even the ones that I refrigerated and took out and incubated. Not sure why people say that the first eggs are not fertile. Anyone know why?

 

[casportpony]

Congrats! But who says first eggs are never fertile?

Ditto! Wasn't there a post from someone that hatched an egg from a yearling?

-Kathy

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I had a huge scare last night!
My friend that has given me all these beautiful peafowl called me and said that he got a call from the widow where some of my peafowl are still housed and she said one of the whites was out. I had a freaking heart attack! Of course, he has had them a long time and he said not to get upset (yeah, right!) as they will stay around and we can get it back into one of the empty pens beside the others and trap it.
So I took off over to the pea place, which is 2 miles from my farm to see how in the world one of the peas escaped, knowing dag gone well that I latch all 4 latches (yes, 4 latches!) back each time I go out of a gate. The only one it could have been would have been my dear Velocity or one of the white hens. But they said it was a Peacock so I thought Velocity.

Well, I drive up and they hear my truck so the calling and honking starts (they love their mommie, I bring treats!). I went straight out to Velocity and Tempo's pen where they are showing off in grand style as well as all my others. Everyone was in their pens... Majesty and Stars, Zazouse and Dilly, Hershey and Godiva, Bridges, along with Jack and Roche. No one was missing but all were showing off and expecting treats so I handed them out and in the far distance I heard a peacock.

Someone out around there has lost a white peacock. There is a zoo within 3 miles so we wonder if one of theirs escaped.

Here is my handsome Velocity that I thought was out last night. And that is his lovely bride stuffing her face in the background, Tempo.







I will be glad to get them home and off of red mud. We do not have red clay here. Ours is black loam and sand.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Of course, I was worried, as well that it could have been Stars. She is in with Majesty. They are in the pen beside Velocity and tempo and the only ones in open sided pens. But they said it was a peacock so I wasn't as worried it was her.

 

[casportpony]

Great looking peas!

-Kathy

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Thank you. They are established breeders, except for Velocity and Tempo. Chuck never got to breed them. He bought them as youngsters and then passed away.
Oh, and Bridges, who was hatched out last year by mistake under a peahen. I currently have him up for sale as I do not need his breeding in my program.
I am going to try and continue as Chuck had been doing before he passed away. His mother worked on them, too, when she was alive. I feel so honored to have been gifted this breeding program. I just wish I could have met them and learned a lot before they passed away. Strange that they lived right down the road from me and we never met.

 

[msmolly]

See my thread about I.D. bands for peafowl. just posted today. I also wrote on another thread yesterday- with my ways of keeping them home. Good luck