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This page shows some breeders we are using during the 2011 breeding season. After August will be selling some of the birds listed below... we should have young peafowl for sale from these breeding pens. Other breeding groups are to produce bronze, bronze spalding high %, bronze blackshoulder white eye, bronze blackshoulder silver pied, purple blackshoulder silver pied, cameo blackshoulder silver pied, blue pied, white eye, silver pied, white, blackshoulder, blackshoulder silver pied, others. bronze blackshoulder peacock Breeder peacock BRONZE PIED WHITE EYE PEACOCK Breeder peacock BRONZE PIED WHITE EYE PEACOCK Breeder peacock bronze white eye peacock Breeder peacock bronze white eye peacock Breeder peacock spalding bronze white eye peacock tailed male/ no white eye w/powder wings cameo pied / white eye peacock 2 year peacock peach blackshoulder peacock Breeder peacock peach blackshoulder peacock Breeder peacock opal white eye peacock Breeder peacock opal white eye peacock Breeder peacock opal silver pied peacock Breeder peacock opal silver pied peahen Breeder peahen charcoal blackshoulder peacock Breeder 5 year old peacock charcoal blackshoulder peacock Breeder peacock charcoal blackshoulder 2 year peacock This picture shows what a 2 year charcoal blackshoulder male looks like, wings take 3-4 years to fill in emerald spalding pied peacock 2 year male breeding muticus hens emerald spalding pied peacock 2 year peacock emerald splading pied peahen breeding muticus male white spalding top crest pecked off, late 2 year male, breeding muticus hens Regarding the above 4 listings, in 2010 we produced nicer higher % birds. During 2011 breedings will produce even nicer splits... all unrelated for the past 9 years. Breeding the split 2009 back to 31/32 emerald spalding male split white. emerald spalding split white 31/32 spalding split white, you might see the small white dot under the chin... to tell the difference from a muticus type... look for a shorter top crest, wing barring on the top of wing. If your thinking of purchasing a pure green bird this picture is a good example of why you must know the breeder and his or hers reputation. There is no reason to cross breed green type to blue type... you will never produce this type of bird unless your willing to spend 10 - 15 years, keeping back hundreds of splits. One of the benefits to improving a hybrid is for color, height as well as phenotype for northern climates. Of course others will hope for preditor kill, or as one friend said, "great tiger feed". india blue pied peacock split blackshoulder, split bronze, split cameo ... we have several breeding pens set up where the pied males are all split bronze, blackshoulder, purple, cameo out of bronze males split white breeding cameo blackshoulder silver pied and purple blackshoulder silver pied hens.... the hens breeding the the above males were produced from breeding india blue pied males (pictured on the peacock color page) breeding bronze hens. Buy using the first 4 breeding pens with this type of set up we started with high quality pattern males and females then bred them to unrealted birds... allowing us to continue breeding unrealted birds. This helps to control the outcome of producing loud pattern marking, color depth with good genetics to produce healthy fertile birds.
2010 hatch birds bronze pied peacock year old, emerald spalding split pied in background bronze silver pied peacock year old high% spalding bronze blackshoulder this is an example of what we have been working on for the past few years. It's time consuming and still a work in progress. spalding bronze pied peahen this is going to be a foundation bird for future breeding that could take until 2016 or 2020 to get the % of green along with a bright yellow and blue face, tight crest with the legs of a green. ---- more postings later ---- Poisonous plants: Cornell University has a informational database for Poisonou Worming your breeders once then follow up 10 days later will insure the birds are healthy and fit for the breeding season. Sand will give your birds a place to dust. We burn the shed floor, removing litter before adding new sand. We also use this time to check netting, and fence…adding or removing sight barriers. With the spring rains, you might also consider planting rye grass.
Order wing bands…there are a number of options for you to consider. There are color bands, brass bands; you could even have your name or special information printed on them. We would suggest double bands…and to check the bands to make sure there are no duplications and the information is correct.
If you use incubators, brooders you might want to have them cleaned, testing to make sure they are running correctly before hatch season begins. African birds:
We have a number of breeder groups of Vulturine Guinea fowl. The majority of our breeders were wild caught imported birds. When we mention wild caught or imported birds, birds were bought from Sam Chupp who did the importing
Quite personable birds. While we have limited knowledge of water fowl and such, this is the only species that I have raised that will accept any age or gender from a different flock with no hostility. Internet articles site the Vulturine Guinea fowl as aggressive toward its own. We find just the opposite.
We do have Kenya Crested guinea fowl but we no longer have the Mozambique Crested guinea fowl. Pictures below are great to help identify the difference.
Kenya crested guinea G.p. pucherani Kenya # 1 Kenya crested guinea G.p. pucherani Kenya # 2 Mozambique crested guinea G.p. edouradi Mozambique # 2 Birds for sale:
Pheasants:
We sold off most of the pheasants, but we do have Lady Amherst, Golden, Yellow Golden... very nice birds. Some types of pheasants can be found with a little time spent searching your area... saving you shipping and box fees.
Incubators for sale: We have spent the last few years collecting antique redwood incubators, as well as several newer conventional systems. Several old redwoods need fans, 100 each if you pick up. . |
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s plants. You might surf around the below listing. 
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