Show off your Peas!

[margaret8]

This is Peep isn't she pretty?!?

 

[KsKingBee]

Oh yeah, love the speckling and the black tipped tail!

 

[margaret8]

Oh yeah, love the speckling and the black tipped tail!

She loves mealy worms!! She was colored like a male until about 6 weeks ago when she was 4 mo old then all of the colored feathers fell out and in came the off white!

 

[nate1the1great1]

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

Ya mine are from 2013 hatchlings

 

[birdman55]

Okay, so you have seven of them, right? Can you identify individual birds, or are they just seven interchangeable parts right now?

Edited to add: In other words, when you look at your birds, do you know which one you are looking at and remember which bird it is (say Sam or Fred or Aunt June), or can you personally not tell them apart one from the other yet?

two are banded the other five came from someone else...so the two yep I know which they are...but I read its hard to sex white peafowl until almost a year....any advice...I know I have one male ib, I male pied and one hen ib white eye

 

[birdman55]

Chickens???? Keep them wormed!!!!

we just butchered about twenty of them and none of them had worms...we checked the insides and dissected them...and they are not around any other birds (ie pheasants or peafowl)
so were good

 

[Birdrain92]

two are banded the other five came from someone else...so the two yep I know which they are...but I read its hard to sex white peafowl until almost a year....any advice...I know I have one male ib, I male pied and one hen ib white eye

Try looking at the tail feathers. If you can get them to perch on your arm tilt them to make them fan their tail feathers to balance and have a camera to take the pic.
Male

Female

 

[Garden Peas]

we just butchered about twenty of them and none of them had worms...we checked the insides and dissected them...and they are not around any other birds (ie pheasants or peafowl)
so were good

some worms are too small to see, and there's always the possibility of stuff coming in from the wild tweety birds... glad you didn't have intestines full of big round worms, though. @casportpony must be super busy tonight, or she'd be all over this worm thing

 

[AnimalsRmyLife]

This is Peep isn't she pretty?!?

Pretty Peep!

 

[Garden Peas]

two are banded the other five came from someone else...so the two yep I know which they are...but I read its hard to sex white peafowl until almost a year....any advice...I know I have one male ib, I male pied and one hen ib white eye

Well see if you can get @zazouse to look at your picture... she's awesome with whites. Me, not so much. I'm thinking I see maybe 4 hens? Not sure it's gonna do you any good until you can visually tell them apart... You might wanna put up a couple more pictures to make it a little easier. I could be 100% wrong, so don't bank on my guess. Lots of other people on here better at this than I am.

But if it lays an egg, I usually figure it's a girl.