Show off your Peas!

[MinxFox]

Yep that is a peahen. Even young peachicks that are females will display a lot. When I had 3 white peachicks I was wondering if 2 were males because they would display at each other and then run around after each other. It looked like they were practice fighting. As they got older I found out I only had one male.

If that peahen was a male she would look just like the one next to her in the photo.

 

[KsKingBee]

OK, picture overload alert. Remember I am no Zazuse or Blue Creek, shadows are long and it's windy, but here goes. I have a few Cameos so remember, you asked...
These first pics are all yearlings;

SweePea Purple hen.




SweePea next to a Cameo split BS hen





Cameo Black Shoulder cock (Oaten)


Purple hen, sibling to SweePea, much darker...






Cameo BS cock



Black Shoulder hen and Purple hen



Spaulding Purple BS cock from Deerman stock.



Cameo cock





Now these are mature laying hens, Cameos, with different splits.



Spaulding Cameo Silver Pied





Cameo Pied White Eye

I should have thought to flag @new 2 pfowl so she could update the chick pics.

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Thank you @KsKingBee !
I did start putting them into the database (slowly)...

Any of you who are/will soon be hatching, be sure to let me know if I can post your pics in the database!

 

[DylansMom]

Thank you @KsKingBee !
I did start putting them into the database (slowly)...

Any of you who are/will soon be hatching, be sure to let me know if I can post your pics in the database!

Of course!

 

[casportpony]

with this pic here their has been some controversy. ...Little Eagle is my black shoulder peahen and my husband says shes a male but I have hears and read so much saying that peahens fan their tails more so them the males except during breeding season...any ideas?

Nice to see Little Eagle looking so healthy.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Thank you @KsKingBee !
I did start putting them into the database (slowly)...

Any of you who are/will soon be hatching, be sure to let me know if I can post your pics in the database!

You can use any picture that I post.

-Kathy

 

[margaret8]

with this pic here their has been some controversy. ...Little Eagle is my black shoulder peahen and my husband says shes a male but I have hears and read so much saying that peahens fan their tails more so them the males except during breeding season...any ideas?

This is a hen. I have 3 of them!

 

[margaret8]

This is a hen. I have 3 of them!

Mine fans at the gunieas all the time!

 

[hazal]

Please share yours views how to protect the birds in summer
i live in Islamabad (Pakistan) .In summer here's temperature reach up to 48 C to % 50 C ( on average its remains 46 ) i have pair of peafowl. the setup ( cage ) in on the 3rd floor .the setup is 20 feet in length and 10 feet width . the cage is made up with fiber sheets and iron bars, and also an open area , the following steps i carried to protect them in summer from heat stroke :
1. cover the fiber sheets roof with tick cloth tarpaulin
2. for the heat proofing i use foam sheet name jabolan as insulation
3. the floor covered with marbles ,,,,,,,,,, to make it cooler i covered that with sand ( mixture of river sand + normal )
4. every morning i do water spray on the sand to make it cooler
5. to protect them when they out in open i covered that area with green sheet
6 . fresh water twice a day (change every morning and evening)
7 . use electrolytes in the water
8 . feed them green spinach two days in a week
9. Mixture other feed ( sunflower seeds wheat , crush maize , sorghum seeds , local feed ( feed grower ) rice and dry brad )

i wrote all the activities which i normally do, to make it simple for those who want share their views.
please correct me with reference to above activities.

regard

hazel

 

[cajunfowl0]

Around here it can get 95degees plus humidity but I've never had any problems mine usually just go lay out underneath a tree.