Show off your Peas!

[bemba]

Thankya

Breeding season is in full swing here, have my first 14 eggs due later this week

 

[margaret8]

I will be glad when my peafowl are grown so I can have some pretty pix too! Now all I have is just cute!

 

[destinduck]

Nice birds Bemba! Im always glad to see photos of ducks and peas together as you know.

Have a great summer and hope you have a good hatchout.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Nice birds Bemba! Im always glad to see photos of ducks and peas together as you know.

Have a great summer and hope you have a good hatchout.

x2! I love having a mixed collection. Very nice birds bemba! It will be nice to see more pictures of the peachicks as they hatch.

 

[zazouse]

I will be glad when my peafowl are grown so I can have some pretty pix too! Now all I have is just cute!

I found it rewarding to raise them up from babies and they learn to trust you faster, hence when you got to medicate them they do not get mad at you, they will come right back and eat out of your hand like nothing happened, enjoy all stages of their lives, there are many changes to see in the next few years

They look very happy

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[margaret8]

TY

 

[MinxFox]

I think his brother told me that the imports were at the begining of the long row of breeders with Joshes fav bird on the far end of that run( Remember the BIG pretty java boy with all the cool white markings on it?,Thats him) But how many and where the true imports (if that was them anyway)stopped and the rest of the great looking local Javas started was anyones guess, including mine.haha The best looking birds(Javas) to me anyway were on that same row. He also had a coupla nice males in the big flight pen with the turkeys and the big covered roost. Now the row with the charchoals and peach had one really nice trio of Javas( two boys one girl) as well. The herd of this years baby Javas in that one pen all looked good as well of course .He had way more greens or mixed with greens than the Indian blues and all their varieties . I guess Josh knows his birds and has his system for identifying them but I dont have the slightest clue on how he tells whats what out of all the other birds in all those grow out pens. I didnt see the first band on none of the grow out birds including that fine looking herd of young Javas. So whos the babies Daddy out of that wad of what 20ish? You tell me. LOL! And telling which were the sub-species greens out of all those adult Javas ???!!! Get outta town! Honestly.If he would said the one pen(outta three) with mainly males(Closest to Bob Sikes road thats the road you came in on) with the bird with no crest and crooked toe was the pen of imports I would have had to agree with him. My hats off to you if you nailed most Alea because there wasnt no way in hades I could. I do now know that when I go to pick up the female bird or birds I will have him do a walk thru to tell me whats what in the way of the pure java looking birds anyway. Because now I really want to know which are the sub-species .Which are the Americans ?Which are the Imports? Yes I had good ideas on what some were but wouldnt bet the ole soul on what was what. When I do it Ill post the pics here of whats what. I would be happy with any of em.

Yep the imports are in pens 25-33. Josh said the American Greens in pen 41 he thinks are pure Javanese. I guess the others he is unsure about, but he has acquired a lot of green peafowl from all over the US and is fixing to get yet another pair from a dentist who is giving him his greens. Josh said sometimes he has problems with crooked toes in the green peafowl so some of the greens in the other pens he said have crooked toes. He said he would put shoes on them and everything and the toes would straighten out and stay that way for a while and then end up getting messed up again. I wasn't paying attention to the ones in the indoor chick barn, but the pen with all of the green peachicks I did notice that all of the peachicks had a leg band on. I forgot what color leg band means what when it comes to greens, but some would have a green leg band and some would have a red leg band, etc. so that is how he keeps track of them all. He didn't get to do a walk through with us, but I really want to do that too because I want to learn more about them. It might seem hard to identify all the subspecies, but Aaron, having hardly seen as many green peafowl photos as I have, was able to correctly identify them with me. This whole article here: http://www.pavo-muticus.com/english/among-breeders/artenvergleich.html and also especially the very last photo on that page (you can click it to make it bigger) are very helpful. The photo I printed out in color and brought with me to tell the differences in the subspecies, but once I saw all of them in person there was no need for the photo. Basically Javanese or the Muticus Muticus will have the brightest blue on their wings. It will be an electric blue/green and will still be bright in the shade. Imperators can look a little similar, yet their wing color is more of a darker blue and it doesn't have that greenish shine. Finally, Burmese are very easy to identify because they are overall more dull. They are still pretty, but their wing feathers don't shine as much even in the light. Their wing feathers are lined with a dark blue/purple and not really filled in with blue like the other two subspecies. All you have to do is just look carefully at the wing when you are looking to see the subspecies.

Incredible peafowl guys!!! I really like the softer pastelly colours you have! Here are a few of my birds

That first photo is my favorite! The lighting in it is so beautiful!
You have some beautiful pied boys! That yearling pied peacock in the third and fourth photo has such beautiful markings on his neck.
Australia definitely has great pied peafowl.

 

[casportpony]

Beautiful!

-Kathy

 

[bemba]

Thanks everyone

I'll post some cute chick pics very very soon

Ok one last pic .....

 

[zazouse]

Thanks everyone

I'll post some cute chick pics very very soon

Ok one last pic .....

Beautiful