What type of PeaFowl is this one?
Thanks,
Lisa
Question for Kenboy
What you have is an India Blue Black Shoulder hen. India Blue is the species and Black Shoulder is the color pattern. Judging from the size I would say she is an adult.
She is an adult I think she is beautiful.. She comes around every spring but this year she has stayed longer. Her name is Penelope. She mated with Petey and was gone about a month. Evidently something happened to her eggs and now she is back.
Are they that color in the wild? She is really part of the family she eats cat food off the porch and follows me around. I just wish they weren't so loud. I here them calling to each other every hour of the day and night.
They are not only loud, they are early, like 5am! My neighbors had some for a while and friends around here with ranches say they make excellent "watch" animals and let you know when folks are coming.
My experiance was that they hollered at me toooo early and pooped all over my deck and furniture. It looked like dream whip and when fresh, hosed off easily. When sunbaked here in Austin, in August, it hardened like concrete, and required a wire brush. Also they were in the road and a block away in the parking lot of a nearby BBQ place. They took them to their ranch...much mo'betta! :)
They do not come in this color pattern in the wild, it showed up in domestic birds. It is not a color it is a color pattern. The males of this patterns look like the Blue males except they have solid colored shoulders instead of barred. I lived in the city ( Fort Worth) for years and I will take peafowl screaming over sirens, car horns, neighbors radios etc any day. I breed bloodlines so all my peafowl are penned, no poop on the porch. I have heard people say they make good watchdogs but mine scream when a truck goes down the road or they just feel like it. If you want a watchdog, get a Doberman or in our case a Great Pyrenees.
Here is my Java Green cock;
Your Java Green cock is splendid. I agree, over traffic noise, I'll take the peacocks, but as for the poop, pens and fences make good neighbors. :)
My male screams all night long I'm use to him. He is squawking right now because the kids are outside playing basketball. They call to him and he calls back, I'm amazed they are still around. I was told that they wouldn't stay, but so far its been 2 years. I have a 2 story house and he gets on the very top of the chimney and calls.
They do poop on my porch but that kind of stuff doesn't bother me. I have to admit when I open the front door and he is sitting on the railing and he starts screaming he has startled me.
I don't trust them as watch dogs, they are like the guinea birds they go off whenever they want.
I didn't think white was a color that would be found in the wild, not very good camouflage
kenboy this is a really silly question but are they bred for food production or just to develop all the patterns and colors.. I mean do you can you eat them and do they taste like chicken?? ..lol... I sorta remember them coming from indonesia and that areas of the world and Im pretty sure they eat them but then they eat cat and dogs so I figured they would eat peafowl...??
I know they eat guinea birds. The meat is too dark for my taste, I never thought of what peacocks are actually used for. I'm too busy yelling "SHUT-UP".
LOL Lisa! I worked at a Girl Scout camp for a couple of summers and the neighbors raised peacocks. We'd hear them at all hours of the day and night and see them all the time, too. They can be ornery little critters.
My neighbor whose peacocks loved my deck was kind of funny. She said "just run them off or throw ice at them". My Texas gal answer was "lady I'll supply the ice and watch you throw them", the noise isn't the worst, the poop is! :)
Spent this late evening watching a grey fox family come out from under my back deck and play and nurse not 10" from where I sat making jewelry.
I found a picture someone nearby took of exactly the fox I was watching. They are omnivors and nocturnal but come out in early evening some. They have had a laire under the guest bedroom deck and many visitors have heard them in the wee hours.
What a gorgeous creature.
They do come out in the day too. I live out in the country and have watched them take my chickens in broad daylight from the barn. All the other animals just stood there and watched. I was too far away to do anything. We did trap one a few years ago because she was taking eggs, we let her go because I could tell she was nursing young, that night she came back and killed 2 guinea birds. I knew she was just trying to feed her babies, but watching the chickens get snatched was hard.
Now that I think about it I haven't seen them this year.
1lisac, I'm having trouble with squirrels digging up and chewing up my potted plants, especially geraniums. I some time wish I could interest my foxes in squirrel supper!
kenboy, I think this one of mine is called muticolorensis silenci, waht do you think. :)
At least they are not pooping on your porch!