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Peacock – Don’t Get Lost In My Colors
A bird by any other name is subdue a bird. Maybe this is right or maybe it’s not. We may not have seen one in person, but we all use the same term. They have an incredible and colorful apply of feathers, and we call them peacocks. We use the term to describe that type of bird, when it really doesn’t apply to all. The right name for these types of birds is peafowl. The male is called a peacock and the female is a peahen. The babies are called peachicks.
The peacock has long feathers, which they apply out to attract females. We all reckon of those feathers as their tail, but the feathers are really known as the train. The peacock does have a tail, which helps support their feathers. There are designs on the peacock feathers that look like eyes. The peahen colors are not as bright as the peacock and her tail isn’t as long. The peahen will spectacle her feathers as a way of protecting her babies.
The peahen commonly lays between 6 to 12 eggs. It usually takes about 28 days for the eggs to hatch. If the peahen is in captivity, her eggs can be hatched naturally, in an incubator, or by introduction the eggs under other birds, like a chicken or duck. When peachicks are born they by now have feathers and can usually glide within two weeks. For peachicks to survive, they need warm weather. The peacock is mature by the time he’s 3 years ancient, sardonically, all peafowl can start to mate when they are 2 years ancient. There wants to be at least one mature peafowl to produce fertile eggs. Peafowls breed during the spring and early summer. Normally they are silent, but they become noisy during the mating season. When August rolls around, the peacock sheds his tail feathers and starts to grow new ones.
Peafowls spend a lot of their time on the ground looking for food and eat from a very diverse menu, anything from insects, seeds, and berries to snakes and worms. The peafowl can be found in most areas of the world, though they tend to like flat tropical areas and dense forest like areas near water and they will only glide for small distances, usually to get away from danger and to roost in treetops at night.
The peafowl looks like and is an exotic bird. Something that you would normally only expect to see at a animal preserve or if you took a trip to another country. So, why do peafowls seem so common, well, human scenery seems to be, if you see something you like, you want to own it. Like with so many other animals, public want a peafowl in their yard. Public constantly remove animals from their natural surroundings because they want to domesticate them. Do public reckon about the change on the peafowl populace every time they remove one from its home. Do they consider what the change in environment will do to the health of the peafowl. Eventually public should realize that having an exotic animal in your yard maybe fantastic for you, but it maybe hurting the animal.
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How long does it take wood duck eggs to hatch? And how lond before the babies leave the nest?
We live on the river and have seen a female duck going inside the box. When should we expect to see the baby ducks leave the nest.
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Identifying the breed of my duckling……..??
I bought a duckling at the feed store today, well not exactly a duckling- he/she is a month and a half ancient. It resembles a mallard but it is very nearly the size of an adult mallard, and only a month ancient. I reckon it could doubtless be a rouen, is this the right size at this age?
I was also wondering about feeding it, it eats a alot! How much should I feed it a day? He/she spent about 20-30 minutes in the tub supervised, and loved to suck up the feed crumbles from the bottom that I place in there. Should I limit it’s food or let it eat how much it wants. When will we be able to place it outdoors in a pond? We live in Phoenix, AZ so it gets really hot here- should we clip it’s wings or let it glide north and hope it comes back? I would have gotten a few but he/she was the only duck left since Easter cleared them out. The feed store public said we could release it now, but it subdue follows us and “peeps” loudly when we leave it alone.
In the end:
1. Is it a rouen or a mallard? (I’ll post pics if I can…. don’t have any yet)
2. How much should I feed it?
3. When can it be released?
4. Wings: Clip? Will it stay here?
5. If there are other ducks, mallards, (that could be nesting or have babies) that are in the pond, will they fight? The pond is fenced and pretty large, 30 feet by 20 or so
Thanks!!!!!!!
I really appreciate your help!
It is eating what the feed store told us to feed it, turkey grow fall to pieces. i do not reckon it is medicated.
Well, what I mean by releasing is that my father owns a apartment/condo complex with a pond in the center. One of the attendants feeds the ducks and koi every day. I took him/her there and the lady at the front desk said there were three mallards currently income in the pond, 2 drakes, one hen. I went through the gate down to the water and place him the the water. He immediately started trying to get out to follow me. I took him out of the water (the place where we were at had a steep side) and placed him one land. I had to leave him, but he started peeping very loudly as normal when I was out of sight. I am going to check up on him tomarrow, do you reckon he is too childish to live there? The feed store didn’t know his exact age, and they had gotten him less than a week ago. He has never had to eat anything besides food in a dish, and I don’t reckon he will be able to fight for food with the drakes, and I reckon the hen is nesting since I did not see her when I went.
Should I leave him/her there or not?
It’s wings were only about 2-3 inches long if that helps with age. The duck was very nearly 10 inches from bill to tail.
It was auburn with yellow face markings and a white part under it’s chest. Sorry, no pictures yet.
It kinda looked like the muscovies on the right, the white was not as prominent as the other duckling has:
http://img1.photographersdirect.com/img/17635/wm/pd1461041.jpg
A lot like this mallard but more yellowish face and the white on the chest did not cover such a vast area. No white on it’s body.
http://www.zonianlady.com/mallard_n-e/le-mallard-duckling.jpg
Even more like this rouen (you may have to zoom)
http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/E6/3B/58/tE63B5895-0E80-4910-898D-68228E92E354.jpg
So sorry for all the point- trying so compress it down… does not seem to be working…..
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Poultry Questions???????????????? 10 points?
i no its long but i need the help thanks Ok so I have had chickens for 8 years now pigeons for 2 years and ducks for 1 year. my dad said that we r gonna have to start getting rid of some cause a bunch of babies keep hatching. but i thought about starting a poultry business i i have the followning questions
1. how much will it cost to start
2. how big of a shop will i need
3. and anything else u recommened
i have pairs of all the breeds i want to sell here they are
1. barred cochin bantams
2. old english game
3. gray silkies
4. yellow silkies
5. auburn and black frizzles
6. blue cochins
7. road island reds
8. Leg horns
9. Silver laced polish
10. mottled houdans (polish)
11. Buff brahmas (reg. size and bantams)
12. Buff cochins
Ducks
1. white pekin
2. white crested
3. rouen
4. Runners (fawn & white, blue, black, and chocolate)
5. Buff
6. Swedish (blue and black)
Geese
1. buff
2. african
Pigeons
1. homers
2. rollers
any other ones u recommened please write down (i cant have pecoks cause my mother doesnt like then but turkeys would be fine)
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