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Pam Jackass · **Joined:** Sat Jun 18, 2005 7:21 pm **Posts:** 284

We have a 5 month old Blue male for sale in NE Vic. His father is pied and mother plain. His wings have white marks on them when extended. The going rate around here is $60. You need a lock up pen for a few months and space and hopefully some tall trees. I only go on the web about once a week so be patient. Pam

Janb · **Posted:** Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:45 am

Hi Pam,
Where is Victoria are you? I don't suppose you have a pied or split peahen for sale. We have a white peacock for her to mate with.
Janb

Pam Jackass · **Joined:** Sat Jun 18, 2005 7:21 pm **Posts:** 284

We are near Mansfield. We do have two pied hens but they will be ready next year. We haven't really thought about selling but may think about selling one. Not sure what the rate is but I think we would want a fair bit for her as it is even possible they will be ready this year. It happens some times. However if you mate a plain hen to the white cock you should get some pieds anyway. You are at an advantage if you have a white. Have you got any plain hens?? We have three whites, one ready next year and we think it is a hen, but we have enough that we don't mind what it is. The other two whites are only this years chicks and I think one is a boy, and one a girl. Do you have any others and are you close to us as I would LOVE to see your mature white male. Pam

Pam Jackass · **Joined:** Sat Jun 18, 2005 7:21 pm **Posts:** 284

Sorry, how dumb. Just saw where you are. It is 4 hours or so away. Pam

Janb · **Posted:** Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:58 pm

Thanks for your reply Pam. We also have an Indian Blue cock & hen, they have 3 chicks, 2 male 1 hen and they are 6 months old early August. They are all normal Indian Blue. Snow, our white cock arrives this Saturday and will be in quarantine for the next month. Anytime you are down this way, please feel free to call in. Let me know if and when and I will give you instructions how to find us. What sort of price would you be looking at for a pied hen, if you did decide to sell one.
Janb

Pam Jackass · **Joined:** Sat Jun 18, 2005 7:21 pm **Posts:** 284

I see your problem. You are going to have two boys and a gel, all ready to mate.... not enough gels, ie assuming your new male is ready to go. Gosh... quarantine.... where did he come from?? And how did you do it??? We paid $135 at an auction for Napoleon, our pied male but we have no way of knowing whether he is 3 or 20! The guy selling him was as dodgy as you can get. I see him at auctions and he is a shocker. Helen, my friend, sold a very old pied male three years ago for $110. I guess if we think to sell one of our pied gels we would ask Peacocks Australia how much. They both have big splashes of white on their wings, and they were sired by a boy who has even more white than our Napoleon. Have you got any way of locking yours up for the mating season??? I assume you are going to lock up your white boy when you get him, for quite a long time so he bonds, so I would put your blue female in with him for company and then he can mate with her. My friend Helen only keeps the one pied male. She has a white female, but mostly she gets all pied from the male. Last year she got all girls and one boy, so that's why we stocked up on girls, because of the fox thing. Funnily enough we lost our first white young male to a fox in the first weeks we let them out. Would you believe this year she got nine boys and one possible girl. That is the white one we bought, because we didn't mind what sex they are. We have two blue brothers, Jake and Elwood and they are ready to mate this year. We will eventually probably sell one of them because they are brothers, but none of our mature males are related to the females. The trouble is J and E are so close, they may fret, but we are hoping that will change as they get ready to mate. A lot of our girls are related. How many acres have you got, and do yours nick off down to the neighbours? Luckily ours pretty well stick to our place, 20 acres. Sometimes they graze next door but they have 120 acres. Anyway, I will ask around re price but I suspect my hubby won't want to part with the girl. Nice to talk to you. Pam

Janb · **Posted:** Thu Jul 06, 2006 6:44 pm

Hi Pam, our white male is coming from just up the highway from us. They are moving to Qld and needed to sell him. We have built an enclosure for his 'quarantine' and to hold him until he 'bonds' with us. Sir Percival, the Indian Blue, was roaming free range until we built the enclosure for his 'Piper' and chicks. Now he prefers to stay in there with them. We do have foxes here, we are on 70 acres. I quite understand your hesitancy to part with any of your 'girls'. I may be able to get one closer to home as I have been searching for a while and the word is out! Fingers crossed.
Janb

Pam Jackass · **Joined:** Sat Jun 18, 2005 7:21 pm **Posts:** 284

Lucky you are!!! We have built a huge cage for Napoleon and Josephine this year. Last year she nested in the woolshed and we built a tarpaulin cubicle around her. We had to sacrifice the first eggs tho and wait for her to lay again. 7 eggs and only two hatched and at least a week overdue. We can't decide whether to let her choose the same place again and move her later or whether to pen her in the big pen, at the start of the season. It has a tree branch in there. We have foxes but worse, a female sparrowhawk who takes stuff from under our noses!! Anyway keep us in mind. We have a few plain hens too, one is two and the other we don't know as we bought her at an auction but we think maybe only two this year too, or even only one. Again, that dodgy guy, so he wouldn't tell anyway. Last time he had a pen of three young "females" and I would have laid my life on two of them being males. They already had the patterned backs. Another pen he said were males but they were a bit older so it was easy to tell. Let us know if you are up this way and come and visit. Cheers, Pam

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