Show off your Peas!

[thndrdancr]

Now Bill, if you need to sell a few of those loud pied babies, I want some! That or silver pied is really what I am hoping to get a few of.

I let the birdies out last night, your little cameo hens had a ball bouncing around the back yard!

I have bad news on your little IB. I looked down her throat and I am pretty sure she has a genetic defect, I need to take pictures but her tongue/throat area looks not completely formed properly. She has spunk, but surely is not growing well. I think it affects her breathing, almost like a person who can only breathe out of their mouth.

A

 

[MinxFox]

Good to see that your greens are settling in nicely!

I got my green chick Raptor to take a dust bath recently. Raptor still has fuzzy baby feathers on his neck but he is just starting to get a few real feathers here and there so he is probably a bit younger then most of the greens you got. I am anxiously waiting for him to get colored feathers. From looking at some of Reinhold's green peafowl photos it looks like around 3 months old they should have a lot of color.

How is the green peachick that is your "project bird" doing? Is it walking okay?

 

[KsKingBee]

Now Bill, if you need to sell a few of those loud pied babies, I want some! That or silver pied is really what I am hoping to get a few of.

I let the birdies out last night, your little cameo hens had a ball bouncing around the back yard!

I have bad news on your little IB. I looked down her throat and I am pretty sure she has a genetic defect, I need to take pictures but her tongue/throat area looks not completely formed properly. She has spunk, but surely is not growing well. I think it affects her breathing, almost like a person who can only breathe out of their mouth.

A

I am glad that the Cameos are adjusting well, and yes, I do need to sell something to make room, I just don't want to sell some of the chicks until I see them feather out. The jury is still out on what some of them are, and if I am going to improve my stock I need to be careful what I let go of.

The only reason that little IB hen is still alive is because you took her off my hands. DW had been after me for months to cull it, so its only chance was with you. I just could not keep making her a pin cushion and putting her through all the treatments like I was. Brad Legg told me that it was probably genetic last winter, looks like he may be right. He told me about having the UPA at his place and one of the presentations that year was to do a necropsy. He had a bird like this little IB and they found it did not form correctly, so you are probably quite correct in your analysis.

 

[MinxFox]

Here are some pictures of Raptor that I took a few days ago. He is doing really well.

I love how well camouflaged he is.

 

[DylansMom]

Here are some pictures of Raptor that I took a few days ago. He is doing really well.

I love how well camouflaged he is.

He looks great Minx and happy too!

 

[zazouse]

Here are some pictures of Raptor that I took a few days ago. He is doing really well.

I love how well camouflaged he is.

He/she is very handsome , great photos too

 

[zazouse]

Greens? Oh no no no no, no Greens for me! I have to be satisfied with plain ol Spauldings.

You need a green peacock make pretty spaldings, those are the prettiest IMO, i love the ones like Dylansmom has you can clearly see both breeds in them and that is awesome.

 

[MinxFox]

Here are some of the Rocking BAB Ranch's high % spaldings I took photos of when I went to go see Zaz get her green babies.

This one was really amazing. Josh bred this one himself I think he said this one is 7/8 green.


I thought at Farm Day some of the greens were being jumpy because of all the people there, but even with just Aaron and me walking down the row of green pens a few of the greens were bouncing off of the fence. I think that is why it is nice to get them young so you have better luck with taming them down.

 

[zazouse]

My new babies are so much more calm them when i picked them up, i was anle to sit with them and not have them run or freak out .
Building trust with the greens and a wild pied

Tell ya one thing i do have to be on my toes these peas love feathers like hunt them down in the brooder so 4 times a day i check and make sure none fallen into the brooder , hopefully the eggs will help they need more protein than they were getting




















I love this toad he eats so many bugs it ain't even funny, been trying to get a photo of him eating but he is so darn fast, i named him the exterminator .

Every thing taste better out of mommas hand,

 

[AugeredIn]

What do you think? Keepers?