Show off your Peas!

[AnimalsRmyLife]

Springtime! Sooner or later!

Yes! Can't wait for spring to come! Nice warmer weather & little babies!!

 

[zazouse]

I just need for the sun to shine even the birds are starting to look depressed

Darn window lickers want to come inside too.

 

[AnimalsRmyLife]

We had sun the past few days, but it's cloudy right now. At least the inversion we had for a while is gone!

Wish I could send some sun your way. My uncle wants us to send some sun his way as well.

 

[thndrdancr]

We had sun today and I even opened the pop door, everyone was stir crazy!!!! Got to 37 today, yippeeeee.

 

[margaret8]

Got to about 38 today , and I was able to open up the greenhouse and water! After we shot the coyote yesterday iv'e keep my birds penned up! They have alfalfa hay and extra feed to keep then occupied!

 

[cajunfowl0]

Never heard of birds dieing down here from the cold and i have had all kinds of free ranged birds go threw an ice storm back in 1997 which we rarely have, folks were without power for weeks around here. last year even my young peafowl got iced over up in the trees, i had no losses at all.

Yeah Ikr! The big dummy decided to fall asleep in a puddle while it was raining and 40 degrees outside

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Quote: I have a bit of collection going. I have always been around birds and my dad always was interested in birds as well so literally since birth I was in a bird-owning family. I am a teenager so I still have a lot of time ahead of me and I have many species in mind that I wish to acquire and successfully breed.

Peafowl:
-Opal WE Peacock split BS
-Opal Peahen
-Opal Spalding Peahen (also one split WE which is going to @mandyok next week)
-Opal BS Spalding Pair (likely WE or split WE)
-Bronze BS Peacock (will have a hen on loan from Taylor Hill Game Farm)
-Bronze Spalding split BS Peahen (have another one in Ohio on a breeding loan to hopefully one day make Bronze BS Spal Silver Pieds)
-Bronze WE Peacock (possibly carrying progressive pied) (another Bronze WE peacock also going to @mandyok
-Bronze Progressive Pied WE Peacock (blind- needs to be rehomed)
-Cameo split White Hen (going white, ironically the blind boy's friend, so she would go with him since I will not breed with her)
-Cameo Blackshoulder Spalding Peahen
-Cameo Pied (Spalding?) split Peach Peacock
-Peach Silver Pied Trio
-Peach Pied Peahen
-Peach split White Peahen
-Purple Spalding Pied Peahen (imprinted)
-Cameo Spalding peacock
-Bronze Spalding split White Peacock
-Spalding Peahens
-Charcoal Silver Pied
-White (out of charcoals)
-White (out of midnights)
-White Spalding
-Midnight BS Pied WE? Peahen
-IBBS split Charcoal (? complete guess) Peahen
-IB WE Dark Pied (?) split Charcoal Peahen

I believe that that is all of my peafowl... I plan on adding a pair of Green Peafowl (Pavo muticus muticus) from texaspeafowl.com imported lines if all goes well towards springtime.

Pheasants:
-Impeyan Pheasant (Himalayan Monal)
-Temminck's Tragopan
-Grey Peacock Pheasant
-PURE Golden Pheasants (recently acquired new lines which are offspring of wild caught, imported birds)
-PURE Lady Amherst Pheasants (also got another imported line of these from same source)

I also have some golden mutations of just males to keep separately since my dad likes them. I will be adding Satyr Tragopans this year which will be offspring of direct imported birds from Wolfgang Mennig. Edward's Pheasant and Elliot's Pheasant are also on the radar.

Ducks:
-Mandarin Ducks (regular, white)
-Wood Ducks (regular, white, silver, apricot)
-Smew
-Hooded Merganser
-Red Crested Pochard
-Chiloe Wigeon
-Cape Teal
-Cinnamon Teal
-Ring Teal (regular, blonde)
-Green-winged Teal
-Falcated Duck
-Gadwall

My ducks are always changing. I definitely want Baikal Teal in the future among many other species. I will be getting Common Eider (which will likely end up being loaned to another breeder).

Some other birds that are here are coturnix quail of various color and chickens like marans and mille fleur cochin bantams (which hatch out lots of my birds).

I definitely have lots of ambitions for the future of birds to add, and visiting large collections like Sylvan Heights only gives me more inspiration.

 

[cajunfowl0]

I have a bit of collection going.  I have always been around birds and my dad always was interested in birds as well so literally since birth I was in a bird-owning family.  I am a teenager so I still have a lot of time ahead of me and I have many species in mind that I wish to acquire and successfully breed.  

Peafowl:
-Opal WE Peacock split BS
-Opal Peahen
-Opal Spalding Peahen (also one split WE which is going to @mandyok
 next week)
-Opal BS Spalding Pair (likely WE or split WE)
-Bronze BS Peacock (will have a hen on loan from Taylor Hill Game Farm)
-Bronze Spalding split BS Peahen (have another one in Ohio on a breeding loan to hopefully one day make Bronze BS Spal Silver Pieds)
-Bronze WE Peacock (possibly carrying progressive pied) (another Bronze WE peacock also going to @mandyok

-Bronze Progressive Pied WE Peacock (blind- needs to be rehomed)
-Cameo split White Hen (going white, ironically the blind boy's friend, so she would go with him since I will not breed with her)
-Cameo Blackshoulder Spalding Peahen
-Cameo Pied (Spalding?) split Peach Peacock
-Peach Silver Pied Trio
-Peach Pied Peahen
-Peach split White Peahen
-Purple Spalding Pied Peahen (imprinted)
-Cameo Spalding peacock
-Bronze Spalding split White Peacock
-Spalding Peahens
-Charcoal Silver Pied 
-White (out of charcoals)
-White (out of midnights)
-White Spalding
-Midnight BS Pied WE? Peahen
-IBBS split Charcoal (? complete guess) Peahen
-IB WE Dark Pied (?) split Charcoal Peahen

I believe that that is all of my peafowl...  I plan on adding a pair of Green Peafowl (Pavo muticus muticus) from texaspeafowl.com imported lines if all goes well towards springtime.

Pheasants:
-Impeyan Pheasant (Himalayan Monal)
-Temminck's Tragopan
-Grey Peacock Pheasant
-PURE Golden Pheasants (recently acquired new lines which are offspring of wild caught, imported birds)
-PURE Lady Amherst Pheasants (also got another imported line of these from same source)

I also have some golden mutations of just males to keep separately since my dad likes them.  I will be adding Satyr Tragopans this year which will be offspring of direct imported birds from Wolfgang Mennig.  Edward's Pheasant and Elliot's Pheasant are also on the radar.

Ducks:
-Mandarin Ducks (regular, white)
-Wood Ducks (regular, white, silver, apricot)
-Smew
-Hooded Merganser
-Red Crested Pochard
-Chiloe Wigeon
-Cape Teal
-Cinnamon Teal
-Ring Teal (regular, blonde)
-Green-winged Teal
-Falcated Duck
-Gadwall

My ducks are always changing.  I definitely want Baikal Teal in the future among many other species.  I will be getting Common Eider (which will likely end up being loaned to another breeder).

Some other birds that are here are coturnix quail of various color and chickens like marans and mille fleur cochin bantams (which hatch out lots of my birds).

I definitely have lots of ambitions for the future of birds to add, and visiting large collections like Sylvan Heights only gives me more inspiration.   

Wow!!! I'm drooling lol! I'm a teenager as well but I'm always held by my dad bcus he thinks that they'll all die and not reproduce and lose my money...how have u been money wise like do you make enough back to pay for everything?

 

[MinxFox]

Wow!!! I'm drooling lol! I'm a teenager as well but I'm always held by my dad bcus he thinks that they'll all die and not reproduce and lose my money...how have u been money wise like do you make enough back to pay for everything?

Yeah for me it is mainly my mom who thinks the way your dad does. But unfortunately I am not a teenager anymore. I am dating a teenager if that counts.

I need serious evidence to get any new bird. Now I need evidence to hatch my own peafowl's eggs. I can't say it is a bad thing having my parents hold me back from getting more peafowl, but sometimes it gets frustrating especially when they don't see why you want one variety when they really love some other variety and would rather me get that. Haha difficult, but believe it or not, Blue Creek runs into his own set of problems having a family that is into birds. Everyone is competing for pen space for their own birds that they want, so sometimes it is hard for him to find a place to put new birds that he wants. Also he sells birds he really really loves quite often to make more room or get money for new birds, etc. He has difficulties too just in a different way.

 

[cajunfowl0]

Yeah for me it is mainly my mom who thinks the way your dad does. But unfortunately I am not a teenager anymore. I am dating a teenager if that counts.  
I need serious evidence to get any new bird. Now I need evidence to hatch my own peafowl's eggs. I can't say it is a bad thing having my parents hold me back from getting more peafowl, but sometimes it gets frustrating especially when they don't see why you want one variety when they really love some other variety and would rather me get that. Haha difficult, but believe it or not, Blue Creek runs into his own set of problems having a family that is into birds. Everyone is competing for pen space for their own birds that they want, so sometimes it is hard for him to find a place to put new birds that he wants. Also he sells birds he really really loves quite often to make more room or get money for new birds, etc. He has difficulties too just in a different way.

If only everything would go as planned birds never die all chicks live and sell all the offspring ugh :/ things would be a lot easier LOL!