Show off your Peas!

[DylansMom]

Actually, it can be pretty hard... when I first started, I was all over the net, but the info I needed didn't turn up.

This surprises me, I have had good luck finding info on the net. Perhaps a lot has to do with what we are trying to find exactly. I know when I started researching the Twisted Tibia, I was searching for references to it in Peafowl, not much out there except "put them down". I had to kind of go sideways and start searching for it in broilers and emu's, then I started to get some decent info.

 

[Garden Peas]

Oh if I saw a bird struggling against a tether, something in my brain would say "hey this ain't working!!!".

Oh my now I am all fired up!!

I'm pretty sure it happened pretty quick, and remember, this is a kid with not much experience, and I don't think he was getting the right advice and information from his 4-H folks... As I see it, this was a disaster waiting to happen, and he didn't have the support he needed on the ground with him to do things safely. I think he has learned some things, but he's still a teenage boy. He's not gonna think like an adult... his brain isn't wired up that way yet anymore than any other not yet fully grown critter. All God's children need time to grow up and it helps when there's somebody to show them the way.

 

[thndrdancr]

I remember there being very little pea info, I think I vaguely remember when BYC was so excited and celebrating finally achieving 1000 members!

 

[3BirdGirlz]

Nate, I was thinking 4-H had educational booklets for different projects like raising this and raising that, don't they?

What kind of booklets are there for poultry projects?  Is there a peafowl or gamebird booklet?

Nope, mostly just about chickens. Most kid's learning of other fowl comes from leaders and experienced people who volunteer for workshops. We even ask open show judges because not many people here know much.
I do love BYC and trust the majority of folks here that I've been following or discussing things with over the past couple yrs. it's helped me out tons with my peas!

 

[nate1the1great1]

I'm not doing my peas this year im waiting til his tails pretty and they're more tames but thanks and they do have booklets but they don't have them for 2015 yet hey said not until about March but im using my OEGB hen Jill bc she's tamed and likes to fly on ur shoulder and is more docile thats why my peas are wild and at the fair i dont trust them bc if i open the cage they would try to escape

 

[Garden Peas]

Nope, mostly just about chickens. Most kid's learning of other fowl comes from leaders and experienced people who volunteer for workshops. We even ask open show judges because not many people here know much.
I do love BYC and trust the majority of folks here that I've been following or discussing things with over the past couple yrs. it's helped me out tons with my peas!

Well, give your leaders the BYC info and tell them about the peafowl forum... We'd be glad to help them so they can help the kids

 

[Garden Peas]

I'm not doing my peas this year im waiting til his tails pretty and they're more tames but thanks and they do have booklets but they don't have them for 2015 yet hey said not until about March but im using my OEGB hen Jill bc she's tamed and likes to fly on ur shoulder and is more docile thats why my peas are wild and at the fair i dont trust them bc if i open the cage they would try to escape

That makes sense. Did you see the picture of the target stick? Do you have a training clicker? I betcha you could train your peas with a clicker and a target stick pretty well. I can describe the process... what steps to do first... if you want.

 

[nate1the1great1]

O there getting better as there age i dont need special training i just wan tx them to not be so skid dish and scared if people when i first got them and up to about 3 months ago they were sooo skid dish u couldn't go within 30 feet of them without the, flying away now when I can put my face to my window and they would look at me and watch me and dont care and I can get close to them soon I'll start the hand feeding process but I think aging will help

 

[zazouse]

I'm not doing my peas this year im waiting til his tails pretty and they're more tames but thanks and they do have booklets but they don't have them for 2015 yet hey said not until about March but im using my OEGB hen Jill bc she's tamed and likes to fly on ur shoulder and is more docile thats why my peas are wild and at the fair i dont trust them bc if i open the cage they would try to escape

If you hatch out your own babies and you are the first thing that they see and you spend lots of time with them , like taking them for walks showing them what is good to eat like the grass seeds and such, they will be very very tame and way easier to work with in the shows

of course this take time and i am not sure what grade you are in, you might be graduated by time they were big enough to show in adult feathers .

 

[Birdrain92]

I have two peafowl that are tether trained. Marshmallow and Thora. I'm not the only person that uses tethers on peafowl either. Zoos use them as well. If you get them at a young age it's easy training while older peafowl are not as easy.

She's attached to my arm.