Show off your Peas!

[furbabymum]

Our new male is out of confinement now and seems to have adjusted well. Unfortunately our drake has taken a fierce dislike to him and every time the pea tries to strut the drake is at him. /sigh

 

[zazouse]

Opal sp, cameo bs sp and opal.

Beautiful birds and photos of them

 

[zazouse]

Our new male is out of confinement now and seems to have adjusted well. Unfortunately our drake has taken a fierce dislike to him and every time the pea tries to strut the drake is at him. /sigh

Is that a duck the peacock is mounting? hard to tell in the photos they look kinda foggy.

 

[nate1the1great1]

I THINK I FOUND A PEA EGG it was laying next to my lonely chukars little pen and it is bigger than a chicken but smaller than a goose so I think it's a peacock and my hen was on top of the hay bales sitting there so I am thinking she is making a nest up there but I don't know what to do with it and my male is mounting and mating but he has no eyes on his train so do you think they will be fertile or......?

 

[msmolly]

Beautiful birds and photos of them

Ditto here Q - those birds and photos are gorgeous!

 

[Kedreeva]

I THINK I FOUND A PEA EGG it was laying next to my lonely chukars little pen and it is bigger than a chicken but smaller than a goose so I think it's a peacock and my hen was on top of the hay bales sitting there so I am thinking she is making a nest up there but I don't know what to do with it and my male is mounting and mating but he has no eyes on his train so do you think they will be fertile or......?

only two ways to tell- crack it open and look or pop it in the incubator!

 

[MinxFox]

I THINK I FOUND A PEA EGG it was laying next to my lonely chukars little pen and it is bigger than a chicken but smaller than a goose so I think it's a peacock and my hen was on top of the hay bales sitting there so I am thinking she is making a nest up there but I don't know what to do with it and my male is mounting and mating but he has no eyes on his train so do you think they will be fertile or......?

You will get plenty more eggs, so with this first egg I would crack it open and check for fertility. After checking you can cook it up and eat it or you can feed it back to your birds. Generally it is said that a peacock without any eye feathers will not be fertile, but it can't hurt just to check. The chances are slim though if he has no eye feathers at all.

 

[nate1the1great1]

You will get plenty more eggs, so with this first egg I would crack it open and check for fertility. After checking you can cook it up and eat it or you can feed it back to your birds. Generally it is said that a peacock without any eye feathers will not be fertile, but it can't hurt just to check. The chances are slim though if he has no eye feathers at all.

The only eyes he has is on his back next to the neck

 

[msmolly]

We had the worstest, coldest, most horrible-ist winter this year here in Ohio...but this Spring is worth it! What an amazing spring we are having. Well- Blue, my male is obviously enjoying it as well. He has been standing in my patch of Daffodils and Tulips, all day, everyday. The color contrasts were stunning....could I get a picture? No....day after day I snapped hundreds of pictures- But my *&#6&*$# bird would be perfectly still, posing like a statue ...until a pressed the shutter. All I managed to get were these couple pics- which are nothing like what I was trying for .........oh well..

 

[msmolly]

I THINK I FOUND A PEA EGG it was laying next to my lonely chukars little pen and it is bigger than a chicken but smaller than a goose so I think it's a peacock and my hen was on top of the hay bales sitting there so I am thinking she is making a nest up there but I don't know what to do with it and my male is mounting and mating but he has no eyes on his train so do you think they will be fertile or......?

My peahens used to leave eggs laying randomly around the yard. They were young, and some one told me peahens were really stupid mothers and couldn't be trusted to raise their young. Dopey me- I listened to them and would pick up the eggs. Well, years later, I was told by an old-timer that peahens are really smart- and those random eggs are decoys to see if the area is safe to nest- or if predators are waiting for the eggs....Now, I don't know if that"s a wives tale or not- after all, my hens were young, but i now try not to disturb those decoy eggs- unless they are actualy under foot, and my hens have since been successful nesters. Again, they matured, but also the decoy eggs were never included in their nest. So, my suggestion,( and I am not nearly as experienced as most on this site) is assume that egg is infertile, but leave it be if you can- and see if she's just testing the territory.