Show off your Peas!

[ellymayRans]

So I've been frantically stalking my Peahen on and off ...because well I do also have a full time job..fortunately I get to work from home most days..and thanks to the 2 white youngsters that still peep/honk when she's wondering off without them and I can spot them from a mile away in the woods. Still she eluded us all and I went back to work. I came home just a bit ago from the boys baseball practice and checked the coop one last time and she laid in the coop same spot!!! Thank goodness! She didn't lay yesterday so I thought for sure the decoy was indeed her game.

What a beautiful site!

 

[Birdrain92]

Congrats! I'm waiting for my hen and she shows the egg laying signs or as if she just got bred. Colbolt managed to break the tips off of his swallow tail train feathers, one ocelli, and one sickle.

I just can't believe he was able to do this in one day also. I hope next year there won't be any or nearly as many feathers with missing tips.

 

[zazouse]

So I've been frantically stalking my Peahen on and off ...because well I do also have a full time job..fortunately I get to work from home most days..and thanks to the 2 white youngsters that still peep/honk when she's wondering off without them and I can spot them from a mile away in the woods. Still she eluded us all and I went back to work. I came home just a bit ago from the boys baseball practice and checked the coop one last time and she laid in the coop same spot!!! Thank goodness! She didn't lay yesterday so I thought for sure the decoy was indeed her game.

What a beautiful site!

congratulations

 

[Trefoil]

Winners have been announced in the peafowl photo contest

Congratulations to Dylansmom and Minxfox on their winning entries very beautiful photos indeed

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/962488/peafowl-photo-contest/40

Congratulations! All three are beautiful

That's a great picture of his Blue wings.

Also congratulations to those of you that are getting eggs.

 

[ellymayRans]

Thanks "Guys"!

I'm really freaking out that I am going to have to incubate them though! I was hoping for a broody or 3 but the only Broodies I had are now in breeding pens and it broke them! I can't imagine getting more than 2 of these huge eggs under them anyways! Lol!

Anyone have a good "live by" tutorial for hatching these successfully?! Pretty Please!!

 

[zazouse]

Thanks "Guys"!

I'm really freaking out that I am going to have to incubate them though! I was hoping for a broody or 3 but the only Broodies I had are now in breeding pens and it broke them! I can't imagine getting more than 2 of these huge eggs under them anyways! Lol!

Anyone have a good "live by" tutorial for hatching these successfully?! Pretty Please!!

I set 4 to 5 eggs under all my standard size broody's last year and they hatched all but 5 out like 65 eggs(not real sure on number of eggs but close enough) if your hens are breaking peafowl eggs it sounds to me like you may have some thing shells or you have hens fighting over the nest breaking them.

 

[Kedreeva]

I set 4 to 5 eggs under all my standard size broody's last year and they hatched all but 5 out like 65 eggs(not real sure on number of eggs but close enough) if your hens are breaking peafowl eggs it sounds to me like you may have some thing shells or you have hens fighting over the nest breaking them.

I think she meant it broke them from being broody?

But either way, if you're going to incubate, it's basically the same as chickens, except higher humidity (I'm using 50% for incubation, I use 30-40% for chickens, and then 60-70% for hatch) and they take longer to hatch (28-30 days instead of 21). Otherwise 99.5 degrees and turn them an odd number of times a day (or put them on an auto turner). I think there was some debate a couple years ago about whether or not standing them up up laying them down was better, but I don't think I ever saw anyone prove it one way or another.

 

[ellymayRans]

I set 4 to 5 eggs under all my standard size broody's last year and they hatched all but 5 out like 65 eggs(not real sure on number of eggs but close enough) if your hens are breaking peafowl eggs it sounds to me like you may have some thing shells or you have hens fighting over the nest breaking them.

Oh gosh No! Haha! I would've made such a big BooHooo if my new eggs got broken! I just meant I broke my broodies!

I really can't imagine it I guess...maybe I'll see who I can get to brood? I better get on it though! I only have a couple days before I will need to set them! I'll keep everyone posted on my new venture!!

 

[CrazyChookLady5]

hi everyone

I would LOVE to get some peafowl! just one or two. at the moment its just wishful thinking but I might get some in the future, but I was just wondering if my chook pen could hold them. I have a big pen it could hold maybe up to 40 hens I have a bout 29 chickens at the moment (and three ducks) and I free range my birds ( I love on a farm). there is plenty of trees and grass and stuff around my pens, so would this be fitting for peafowl? or not at all??

thanks for any help

 

[zazouse]

hi everyone

I would LOVE to get some peafowl! just one or two. at the moment its just wishful thinking but I might get some in the future, but I was just wondering if my chook pen could hold them. I have a big pen it could hold maybe up to 40 hens I have a bout 29 chickens at the moment (and three ducks) and I free range my birds ( I love on a farm). there is plenty of trees and grass and stuff around my pens, so would this be fitting for peafowl? or not at all??

thanks for any help

Are you wanting to free range them also?
I recommend that they have a pen of their very own either way because it is always best to quarantine new animals