Show off your Peas!

[KsKingBee]

Leg coloring isn't going to tell if they are pied. All juvenile BS males( and they are males) have white legs. There are 3 BS males in this picture, sorry it isn't closer, but you can still see that they have white legs even at an older age than the ones you are looking at, none of these 3 are pied.

@DylansMom where do these shade/pens come from? I like them.

 

[KsKingBee]

oh ok thank you very much for the info....do you guys think its a good idea to get a bird that has been thru a traumatic event like the white male...?

If you have ever bought a bird from an auction, you have bought a bird that has been through trauma. I think with time they get over it, a lot depends on how YOU treat them after you bring them home.

 

[cajunfowl0]

If you have ever bought a bird from an auction, you have bought a bird that has been through trauma.  I think with time they get over it, a lot depends on how YOU treat them after you bring them home.

I agree one of my males I bought from an auction took him about 3 months to get used to me

 

[DylansMom]

@DylansMom where do these shade/pens come from? I like them.

I love them, but I will never use shade netting again, It is just too much work to have to change your netting twice a year. and these hold every snow flake, so 2" of snow and your netting is sagging, 4" and its stretching out of shape, 6" and they tear.

If you can devise an easy way to swap it out for the 2" netting that doesn't hold snow, let me know, otherwise I wouldn't recommend it. At my age I'm looking for less work not more work. The birds sure like the shade in summer though. As for the pens, hubby made them, he has been in the metal trade all his life and currently owns part of a metal manufacturing co. He would love to be able to make a living doing custom pens, he really enjoys this kind of thing. He made all of our dog kennels as well, you can see them in the background here.

 

[KsKingBee]

I love them, but I will never use shade netting again, It is just too much work to have to change your netting twice a year. and these hold every snow flake, so 2" of snow and your netting is sagging, 4" and its stretching out of shape, 6" and they tear.

If you can devise an easy way to swap it out for the 2" netting that doesn't hold snow, let me know, otherwise I wouldn't recommend it. At my age I'm looking for less work not more work. The birds sure like the shade in summer though. As for the pens, hubby made them, he has been in the metal trade all his life and currently owns part of a metal manufacturing co. He would love to be able to make a living doing custom pens, he really enjoys this kind of thing. He made all of our dog kennels as well, you can see them in the background here.

Crap, just my luck.

Well, I'm glad you are the lucky one. Since he is so handy, just have him add some supports across the top to hold the weight. I don't know how strong the netting is that you are using but I would imagine that supports every two foot on center and one down the middle would be enough even if he used a one inch square tubing. He probably knows better than I do what he is doing. I have some netting I have used for twenty years or longer that is nylon like the catch net I posted the other day. Birdman55 showed a good close up of it, mine is white and the holes are about 1/3 to half inch. It is VERY strong and does not rot, but you would have to have good support under it for your purpose. I can't tell you where to get it, I got mine from a surplus store in the Wichita.

 

[Garden Peas]

@DylansMom
where do these shade/pens come from?  I like them.

X2 I was gonna ask same same

 

[Garden Peas]

oh ok thank you very much for the info....do you guys think its a good idea to get a bird that has been thru a traumatic event like the white male...?

I'm thinking it'd be better for him to get adopted by you before anything more traumatic happens to him. Is that a new injury since your mother was there?

 

[birdman55]

I'm thinking it'd be better for him to get adopted by you before anything more traumatic happens to him. Is that a new injury since your mother was there?

no that was before mom stopped in to see them...I think it happened when he moved them...im talking to him right now....he said he had a pill that he gave to worm them...and it turned the water red...or colored...I find out more information everytime I talk to him...he is 80 so he cant remember to much...now he wants to sell his pheasants as well...and his rooster which is in with a bunch of chickens in a different coop just died last night....so he seems like he cant take care of them...I feel so bad...I know he has good intentions but he doesn't happen to have any help...poor guy...and I also found out just now...he has the peafowl young one in a large dog kennel....wow...I have to get these birds now...I cant let them live like that...you know...and as for a number to where the bs came from he said it was a lady and he didn't have the number....so I guess...just winging this one...

as for the netting....I got mine from cutlersupply.com....I think they have the best price from what I have found...and they are super fast at getting your product to your door

this is what it would look like well during construction...it doesn't look like this anymore...has a tarp over the top and the post is out....and everything is sectioned of for the pheasants..and if you get thick wet snow it wont go thru the two inch it will stay on top...I had four inches on it and had to go and push the netting up to get the snow to fall thru...its superstrong ....don't buy the cheap stuff...cutlersupply.com actually has one that is stronger then mine...not sure why I didn't see that when I bought mine..but mine is still super strong...I secured it about foot or so off the ground and tested it..i stood on it and it stretched all the way to the ground...so its strong

in august of 2014 I got two baby white peas...they are so cute...

two white peas in with two yellow golden pheasants...the pheasants will pick on peafowl with their top piece above their head so I wont be mixing birds like this again...peas with peas, pheasants with pheasants

view of the netting....I stapled it to the top of the boards and then ziptied all the way around it for extra support...
hope this helps...
and you can get shade netting in all different percentages....think you can get all the way up to 80-90 percent...
growerssupply.com is their website...
hope this helps and thank you everyone for all your input...its so hard to make a decision like this when you cant see the birds and your having people that are not bird people look at the birds.....mom and dad both go...they looked fine to me...lol....

 

[birdman55]

add to the last post...I have been worming with regular tap and read on one of the forum about the hard water effecting the effectiveness of the solution so I switched to ro (revise osmosis) filtered water...so there is no salts in the water...may only 2 part per million in the water now compared to the sink of 400 parts per million...not sure if what I read was true or not but I don't wanna take a chance...and I did find some longer worms in the chickens poop this morning...was about as thick as rice and maybe one or two inches long...think it was roundworm...I new something was wrong when I heard the chicken sneeze...so im glad I did this and it just so happened to be the time of worming anyways so...I have been treating with safeguard but after the ten days will be treating with valbazen to seal the deal...the chickens don't have access to the other birds....(and did I mention byc was addicting)....I cant seem to stop reading and researching on here...its filled with so much helpful people and info

 

[MinxFox]

No lol i don't think that was it I'll explain at first I had two females one was three one was one the three year old died three months after I bought...didn't even know she was sick and the one year old left and never came back it was such a shame my four males need some lady's they will show their feathers to just about any living thing that walks by including me! Hahahaha

Did you worm them after you bought them? It can be good to worm a new bird because sometimes people don't worm their birds at all, or they say they have been wormed recently when in actuality it wasn't that recent.

You were penning the peahens for a month or more before you let them out right?

That is weird that the one year old peahen left. Normally it is the peacock that wanders off and never comes back.