Show off your Peas!

[DylansMom]

She looks wonderful!

-Kathy

I'm not even sure if she was really sick that last time. Do you know if it could have been the molt that had her looking out of sorts? She had that terrible Diarrhea but it has totally resolved and her poo looks great these days.

 

[DylansMom]

He look tiny comparing to the spalding peacock.

Chirpie the Spalding is 17 months old now and he is the biggest bird I have, he's bigger than his father. He is also still very friendly and loves to untie my shoes every chance he gets.



These 2 hatched together.


Your big Spalding chick may end up being a big boy too.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

I'm almost sure mine is male that's why i keep it, he is fanning all the time.

 

[thndrdancr]

An hour after I washed it. We installed a small gate to keep the chickens off but the just laugh and jump over it!

 

[thndrdancr]

Oh splendid!!! She finally washed that big deck off, let's go up and see if she will feed those cats!!!! Then we can have a pooping party!

Which they did, as you can see!

 

[DylansMom]

Oh splendid!!! She finally washed that big deck off, let's go up and see if she will feed those cats!!!! Then we can have a pooping party!

I really only have one that likes to hang out on my patio, Poppie is fairly low maintenance. This is the only pic I could find with poop in it. I must unconsciously avoid taking pics of the porch and patio when they are pooped up.

I feed my cats in the barn, maybe that's why most of my Peas hang out down there as opposed to the patio and porch.

 

[thndrdancr]

I guess in the winter I am lazy! Just throw food out the door. My own fault!! Hate , hate snow and cold. And coop is really only 15 ft from back door.

Now we live in town so everyone gets fed on the porch it appears!

Most chickens don't come up, but my peas and a few chickens are real beggars.

Only my male I raised from a baby will eat out of my hand.

 

[Garden Peas]

They dont normally migrate but in the winter they hunt a larger area sometimes as much as 200 square miles so you dont see them as much.

I think there are some bald eagle pairs that stay put year round, just as some Canadian Geese have settled into places they like, but primarily they come south where we live in the winter. That's why @KsKingBee and I see them in the winter months. Here's a range map I found:

 

[connerhills]

I have a pair that stays year around. Generally the male and female split up in the winter and go their own way to feed at the large lakes south of me, but return off and on to their nest. They have been there for a number of years and have produced young. You can see photo of the nest and birds on my web site at connerhills.com or Google connerhihlls George in Missouri

 

[Garden Peas]

I have a pair that stays year around. Generally the male and female split up in the winter and go their own way to feed at the large lakes south of me, but return off and on to their nest. They have been there for a number of years and have produced young. You can see photo of the nest and birds on my web site at connerhills.com or Google connerhihlls George in Missouri

Saw those photos awhile back, great pix! Sounds like Zaz has something similar. Here, they show up down at the Bosque Del Apache NWR every winter, and I think maybe some years at Bitter Lakes NWR, but I have never heard of them sticking around here to nest. I think the ones here consistently head back north where there's better food sources to breed in the spring. They flood the Bosque in the winter, and there's tens of thousands of snow geese and a whole bunch of sandhill cranes, but in the summer, there's no water and the farmers plant forage crops for the winter birds, which will get flooded to provide both food and safety in the winter. I dunno if the eagles (also some goldens) follow the migrating cranes and geese, or if they just find their own way down every year on their own time schedule. Easy pickings for a few months, then it's back home for the summer.

Lotta folks in Arizona and Florida used to do the same