Farm Day 2014 Photos (mainly of peafowl)

[MinxFox]

Tame green peacock taking a break after getting lots of attention.

Spalding pieds in with a spalding white peacock.

Spalding pied peahens.

Spalding white peacock.

The new peacock with what looks like maybe some spalding split to white/pied hens.

Spalding pied peacock again.





This Spalding pied peacock is new...I looked at the photos from last year and it was only the above Spalding Pied that they had. This Spalding Pied has some really long legs.




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[MinxFox]

Green peacock

Green peahen

Green pair - possibly Pavo Muticus Muticus

I noticed this peachick napping in the corner of a pen. All of the peachicks were inside the chick barn, but I guess this little peachick decided it wanted to sleep where there wasn't so much noise and birds moving around.


Finally in the afternoon the ring-tailed lemurs came out! It was fun watching them bounce around and they certainly drew a crowd. AugeredIn said he had a rescued pair of ring-tailed lemurs once, so he was able to tell me what they are like and he said they are really fun especially if they are friendly. I asked him how soft they are, and he said they are not as soft as a cat, but they aren't that wiry feeling either so they are kinda soft.












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[MinxFox]

Green peahen

Probaby Pavo Muticus Muticus

Not sure what kind f green this guy is...Maybe Imperator... I don't like this peacock because I watched him pick feathers off of his peahen and then eat the feathers! Yikes! The poor hen clucked when he pulled out a feather. I couldn't believe he was eating the feather whole after he picked it. It was kinda horrifying. Hopefully he will calm down and stop doing that. It wouldn't be fun to be missing feathers like that during the winter.

Spalding silver pied again.

Spalding whites and the Spalding pied peacock.

New Spalding Pied again

Not sure if this is pure green or a spalding...

Greens...Possibly Imperators.

Pavo Muticus Muticus

Pretty green peacock. When they walk one direction they are bright, when they walk another they are not!


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[MinxFox]

Probably a Pavo Muticus Muticus peahen - or American Green...I wish the pens said what subspecies was inside!

More greens

The Sheriff flew in on a helicopter and all the peafowl stood watching.

Chick barn 1

The friendly green peacock again.

Green hens.

Beautiful green peacock.

Rooster

Looks like a Burmese to me...

Golden orb spider - a random guy asked me if I wanted to photograph a spider, and I said sure so he lifted some paper off of a cup and let me take pictures of this spider.

Green peahen showing white feathers.


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[MinxFox]

More greens...



The feather picking pair.

A Spalding white peacock with a very orange face.




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[MinxFox]

Nope, not working right now. Maybe later I can show them.

Anyways, that was Farm Day 2014 at Rocking BAB Ranch! None of the birds are mine, but I sure would like one of those greens! That is why I am working on a pen... The greens were by far my favorite. I love them soo much!

After this trip, I don't think I have a favorite subspecies...I like them all! Even the Burmese are pretty to me.

 

[zazouse]

Great photos and a real treat for us that can not be there, thank you for sharing your wonderful day

 

[casportpony]

Great pictures!

-Kathy

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Look how bright that yellow on these Spalding white and Spalding pied peacocks faces, especially at molting season, I wish mine had half that yellow lol.


Nice pictures, please keep posting, i would love to see more pictures. I don't know which green subspecies are my favorite since I can't really tell the difference, but I like this specifier peacock from their photo album, i feel he is different.

 

[MinxFox]

Last year I had an easier time telling the subspecies apart, although I have trained my boyfriend how to tell the difference so with two sets of eyes carefully looking at each pen we made some fairly accurate guesses. Sometimes we thought imperators were Malaysians or the reverse of that. I checked back at the photos from last year's farm day, and the friendly green peacock I love so much was definitely moved to a new pen. Last year he was not in the pen with a tree growing in it. This year he is. So I was a little confused seeing the peafowl swapped around a bit. To learn how to tell the difference, I have found this page by Friedrich Esser very helpful. In particular, the last photo showing the wing colors of all three subspecies side by side. From photos it can be harder to tell the difference. When you see them in person I think it is easier. AugeredIn pointed out that the Burmese (Spicifer) tend to stand taller than the other subspecies. I don't notice a drastic blue coloration on their neck. I am not sure where that description came from that the Spicifers have a blueish tinted neck.
Here is an image I just found on Google I will reference for green peafowl colors:
Quote from http://d30sfmvnlufuao.cloudfront.net/static/products/784A-X.651.png : I would say that Burmese (Spicifers) are more of the fern colored green (a little lighter). More of a mute color and their wing feathering really doesn't shine a whole bunch. They do shine, but not a lot. Their wing will hardly shine in the shade.
The Javas or Malaysian are harlequin in color. A very nice green color.
The Imperators seem a bit like the harlequin, but will shine a golden color as well. I did collect several green peafowl feathers from in front of the pens. Now, I am not sure which feathers are which, and I can't say that just because I found one feather in front of a Burmese pen it is a Burmese feather, because we all know that feathers will blow in the wind to another pen. I will say that of the feathers I collected, some are just a harlequin green but others are a wonderful golden color. I think the golden ones are Imperator feathers and the green ones are Malaysian or Javanese. I am not sure if I got any Burmese feathers. I will take photos of the feathers eventually. I also got a good spalding feather to compare with as well.

The color difference is very subtle and I would mainly just look at the wings. The wings will tell you right away what you are looking at. A very bright, electric blue/green is a Java or Malaysian. Solid blue wing feathers that turn into feathers rimmed with blue are Imperators. dark blue or in some cases a purple-ish blue that just lines the wings is a Burmese. The first two subspecies will shine very brightly even in the shade. The Burmese won't shine that much unless if in the sun.

As for spaldings, their color would vary from many of these green colors. Normally Spaldings seem to be around the Pine color. A mix of blue and green.

I checked Josh's website, and it listed several spalding adults for sale, so I guess some of the peafowl I thought were green peafowl that where in the flight aviaries might actually be very high % spaldings. How confusing!

AugeredIn has not talked to Josh about what he feeds his greens and spaldings to have such bright faces, but I do know on his old website it says:
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