Show off your Peas!

[MinxFox]

That is a nice pen! how tall is it? I like how you did the fencing.

 

[3BirdGirlz]

Thanks guys! It's 8 ft tall and 16x30. The bottom is 2x4 inch doubled with chicken wire. It was free wire, so I made it so my mandarins couldn't get out and no one can put their heads out. The top half of the pen wire I bought and it's 1x2. I put Top Right 1x1 on top of the pen.
I've been slowly adding branches and plants to make it look nice. I've put in juniper bushes and a clump of tall grass. I'm trying to figure out how to plant grass without them scratching it up.

 

[MinxFox]

For some reason they love destroying ornamental grass. they will trample it and even trample pampas grass. I would just get a bag of grass seed and spread it out around the pen. It seems like when there is a ton of grass they can't destroy it all. Although I can't be sure how ducks are with grass.

 

[zazouse]

My hen refuses to lay since she wants her old nest back. Everybody that lives in Idaho in my area that has peafowl they are getting eggs but my hen won't lay without her old nest back.

Are you sure a snake ain't getting her eggs if you are sure she is ready to lay, don't think she can stop mother nature there, if she was mad about the nest she will just lay anywhere IMO

 

[BYC-user-174785]

For some reason they love destroying ornamental grass. they will trample it and even trample pampas grass. I would just get a bag of grass seed and spread it out around the pen. It seems like when there is a ton of grass they can't destroy it all. Although I can't be sure how ducks are with grass.

My aviary with ducks is just a mess. Somehow about 50% of the aviary still has grass. I try protecting all of my plants with a fence barrier. Took one away from the pampas grass and now that is just destroyed. My peafowl like to trample things as well! With just a pair of peafowl and mandarin pair in your spacious pen, I do not think grass should be an issue.

 

[MinxFox]

Yeah I got an egg a few days ago and I numbered it and put it back where I found it and the next day it was gone. No shell - nothing! I can't believe I have to deal with yet another issue... But I agree some critter could be taking the eggs.

 

[casportpony]

Rats will take eggs, too.

-Kathy

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Snagged a pic of the coming 2 year old tonight. I know I have a quad of whites,one is for sure a male. And my prized bssp and pied hens,,the backbone of genetics.


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[frenchblackcopper]

Minx,here is that up and coming 3yr old bssp that I consider a loud pied because the background colors of his train are not white. He's camera shy and this is the new pen I finished over the weekend. It is the last pen I can make under Pea Palace,east side.





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[3BirdGirlz]

He is just gorgeous!