Show off your Peas!

[birdman55]

zaz you showoff....lol...beautiful birds..dont forget check the link below...im building my own incubator step by step as well...got an inch of snow...today...grrrr...that will put a damper on things...

 

[zazouse]

zaz you showoff....lol...beautiful birds..dont forget check the link below...im building my own incubator step by step as well...got an inch of snow...today...grrrr...that will put a damper on things...

You building that incubator out in the snow

got to go with the weather,
you should live down here, rain one day, freeezing cold the next and on the 3 day i am back in flip flops again cause it is 80 degrees.

 

[zazouse]

What do you feed them. Or maybe it's genetic. Have you sold a peacock out of state further North and did they develop a train within a year?

They free range so they eat lots of grasses and seeds, they forage for grass shrimp at the ponds edge, forage for grubs, termites beetles and bugs by the rotting logs in the woods on the ground and they have flock raiser 24/7 if they want it, then they get their eggs and oatmeal on cold days and lots of bananas cause they are cheap and good for their digestion, i grow things for them also in food plots, my feed bill is nul for the amount of birds that range here but i work hard on my place so they have lots to choose from

they are my job so to speak and i get no sick days but i love them and they keep me going and give me a reason to get up in the morning

Never shipped any birds so don't know about trains and location.

 

[Garden Peas]

mabe their diet may have something to do with it.
This is a pied i kept from one of my 2013 hatches.

I'm guessing it is a combination of diet, latitude, possibly genetics and age of the bird.

The farther south you are in North America, the earlier the new trains start growing in... and usually the earlier those trains got dropped in the summer/fall. Warm weather makes a difference. It also seems like diet is really important. Also, if some peas are more aggressive and get a higher proportion of the food, I think that reflects not only in overall bird health and bird weight, but also in early, vigorous train growth. Seems like different birds grow trains at different times, to some extent. Recently I had one male with a new train well on the way in (several feet long), one bird with a train just beginning, basically no train, and one bird still carrying some holdout feathers from last year. That's a lot of variation! And don't forget that the age of the bird is also a factor. So that's at least four different things that can affect train growth.

We can't control the weather or the latitude, but we can control diet and breeding. Feathers are built with protein, just like hair and fingernails... Without excellent nutrition, trains will never look good. Zaz's birds show what great conditions the birds have there ... My peas are envious and all want to move to Zaz's place

 

[zazouse]

zaz you showoff..

show-off​

[shoh-awf, -of] Spell Syllables​

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noun

1.​

a person given to pretentious display.​

2.​

the act of showing off.​

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pretentious​

[pri-ten-shuh s] Spell Syllables​

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adjective

1.​

characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially whenexaggerated or undeserved:
a pretentious, self-important waiter.​

2.​

making an exaggerated outward show; ostentatious.​

3.​

full of pretense or pretension.​

Nope i ain't a show off, i just lve sharring with all of you

 

[birdman55]

You building that incubator out in the snow

got to go with the weather,
you should live down here, rain one day, freeezing cold the next and on the 3 day i am back in flip flops again cause it is 80 degrees.

it was a compliment i cant wait for my birds to mature and look as beautiful as yours....im so jealous of how many you can have freerange...awsome job...here are some pics of the styroincubator i made and it worked great...follow the forum below...my grandfather recently passed and im making it for him...he really inspired me with plants and animals..i hope i can live up to what he did..he was the best...













so please come join us and follow the little farmer that hopefully can...link below in blue...thanks everyone for your support

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

I'm guessing it is a combination of diet, latitude, possibly genetics and age of the bird.

The farther south you are in North America, the earlier the new trains start growing in... and usually the earlier those trains got dropped in the summer/fall. Warm weather makes a difference. It also seems like diet is really important. Also, if some peas are more aggressive and get a higher proportion of the food, I think that reflects not only in overall bird health and bird weight, but also in early, vigorous train growth. Seems like different birds grow trains at different times, to some extent. Recently I had one male with a new train well on the way in (several feet long), one bird with a train just beginning, basically no train, and one bird still carrying some holdout feathers from last year. That's a lot of variation! And don't forget that the age of the bird is also a factor. So that's at least four different things that can affect train growth.

We can't control the weather or the latitude, but we can control diet and breeding. Feathers are built with protein, just like hair and fingernails... Without excellent nutrition, trains will never look good. Zaz's birds show what great conditions the birds have there ... My peas are envious and all want to move to Zaz's place

Maybe the areas with longer day hours have to do something with that? Especially if it were hot areas? It's known here in my country that peas or birds generally grow up faster, maybe because its hot here so they eats more? With longer summer day hours?!

This guy was 9 or 10 months old in this picture:

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

By the way, once an experience told me that 75% of the peas nutrition will go for their feathers.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

This one was 9 months old:


This bronze male was 9 months old too:


And here was 16 months old:

 

[zazouse]

Maybe the areas with longer day hours have to do something with that? Especially if it were hot areas? It's known here in my country that peas or birds generally grow up faster, maybe because its hot here so they eats more? With longer summer day hours?!

This guy was 9 or 10 months old in this picture:

Beautiful Birds


All i know is the first peacock i purchased never grew a train at a young age he had 2 dinky eyes but all his 2013 offspring i have here have a cute baby train. so i am thinking it is diet related.