The most curious!!!

[countrygirl4513]

This is my first time raising peafowl. I have 3 yearlings, 1 male 2 females all India Blues. I am finding out that they are the most inquisitive, curious, nosey little peckerwoods I have ever seen. If anything is out of the ordinary they are the first to point it out and investigate fully. Just today I installed my tripods for my polebeans to climb and of course the peas have to investigate and nothing would do but for them to fly over the fence and try to roost on them. Of course mom(me) comes running to chase them out of the garden. I find it truely interesting all the things these 3 will get into. It's almost like have 3 small children underfoot.
DUSTING- My son won't believe me when I tell him that all birds dust. He thinks the peas only do it cause they were raised by a chicken mom. Can someone please validate my point that peas do dust like chickens?

That's about it so far. But these beautiful birds make all the mischief worth it.

 

[Kev]

Haha yes.. thats the best and worst thing about them... their sense of curiosity!

Yes they dust.. many species of birds dust, not just chickens.. Guineas, turkeys, quail, pheasants... even some song birds dust too- English or House sparrows dust a lot too... but not all birds dust. Most "flying birds" bathe only in water.

 

[countrygirl4513]

Thanks for the input. I will surely tell my son, I told you so.

 

[evonne]

yeah... that garden.... say goodbye to it unless you plan to 100% enclose your peas....

i thought it was the rabbits and chipmunks eating my garden to the ground when it was on the other side f the yard, so i decided i'd just do pots by the house.. surely with dogs the rabbits wouldn't venture that close and these are big tall pots... it will work....
my sproutlings were still getting eaten to the dirt... UGH!! darn rabbits!!!

then i'm walking out the back door to BBQ and i catch one of my boys with a full 3-4 leaf squash sprout in his mouth....

yeah.....
hhmmm garden or peas...
they won last year.... lol....

i did read somewhere that they don't like to land on thin wire and won't fly over a 4-5 foot fence they'd rather hop to the top and jump down....
i've watched my peas walk around the entire yard just to get to the driveway gate that is chainlink instead of the hogwire type....
and i noticed that they would never go into the 20x20 area i kept the chickens in unless they followed me through the gate... then i realized all the side to that are thin wire too....
i was going to attempt a raised bed garden with the wire fence around it, but now i'm moving again and will miss growing again this year...

peas are great... mine are staying at the current house to keep the aging neighbor who's gotten attached to them company.. i'm hoping that these 2 eggs i have so far will hatch...