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Peacock & The white peafowl are $500 each.

(Editors' note: Each issue of the Game Bird Gazette has wonderful pictures and detailed information on how to feed, house, and care for peafowl. You will also find reliable and reputable peacock breeders where you can purchase adults, peacock eggs, and peacock chicks at the cheapest prices. You can have eggs mailed to you by postal service priority mail or chicks and adults by express mail. You can subscribe to the Game bird Gazette magazine by going to our secure and convenient online subscription order form. Your subscription will begin with the very next issue coming out next week).

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A male peacock in full plumage is among the most beautiful and spectacular pheasants in the world. The gorgeous Indian Blue Peacock which is shown on the Gazette magazine cover at left, is affordable and very popular to keep and breed. There are also several mutations and many breeds of this species that have been developed and which are also very popular. The gorgeous green peacock is a rarer type of peafowl. The green peacock is larger, higher standing, and a brighter bird with a long, straight crest. See a beautiful picture of the Green Peacock that was recently featured in the Game Bird Gazette magazine.

Because of its gorgeous appearance, the peacock has long been famous outside of its native countries of Southern Asia and Malaysia, and was kept for centuries by people first in China and then in Europe and America. The Phoenicians brought the peacock to Egypt more than three thousand years ago. Historical records indicate that Solomon kept several peacock species, among other pheasants, with the India Blue being his favorite peacock. Peafowl were extensively raised by the Romans for the table as well as for ornamental purposes, and medieval Europe carried on this practice as well. It is only after the XVI Century, when turkeys were imported from Mexico, that the peacock was discarded as a table bird for the more fleshy American birds.

Today, thousands of people all over the world keep and breed peafowl as a hobby or business around their homes or on game bird farms. Many people keep their birds in their backyards while others provide them with more spacious surroundings. Many peafowl live at freedom and breed on farms or in the countryside.

Peafowl were also considered a delicacy in these cultures for centuries. Fortunately, few of peacock speciesare used for food today, except in some of the more remote and less civilized places where they are found in nature. See the printed magazine for more information on man's long held fascination and cultural aspects of the peacock.

There are but two naturally occuring peacock species, the Indian peafowl Pavo cristatus from India, often called Blue peafowl (shown on the cover of the Game Bird Breeders Gazette magazine and child with feathers, upper left), and the Green peafowl Pavo muticus which lives farther east in Burma, Thailand, Indo China, Malaya and Java. It is curiously absent from Sumatra and Borneo. The latter peafowl has three subspecies: Spicifer in Western Burma, a duller, bluer race; Imperator in Eastern Burma, Thailand and Indo China, much brighter wid greener: and muticus in Java, which is still more brilliant. The last two are usually kept in America at present, and probably mixed, but for practical purposes they are just the same, the differences being noticeable only on close examination.

There are many mutations and breeds of peacocks that have been developed and are commonly available from peacock breeders. The India Blue Peacock is commonly kept and bred in captivity by people across America and around the world. They are not expensive and thousands of them are bought and sold each year (see classified ad section of the Game Bird Gazette magazine). They are hearty and easy to keep, even in cold districts. The Green species is not bred as often as the India Blue and is therefore more expensive. You can see that the tail of the green peacock is exceptionally beautiful! The Green is more susceptible to cold and needs to receive adequate protection from the cold.

Peafowl can be quite sociable and often display their feathers right in front of you in the springtime. The male peacock in the spring displays his gorgeous tail feathers and also utters an awakening call which is loud yet quite delight to hear!

Peacock feathers are popularly used in unique crafts and decorations.

You can feed a peacock the same as any other pheasant. The diet provided by many people includes mixed grains, game bird crumbles (such as Mazuri available at many feed stores), and a variety of greens. The birds hardly ever become sick and we have a record of one peacock that lived to be 40 years old!

When raised on the game farm and are well settled, many people find that peafowl don't stray far from home. They can, of course, also be kept in covered pens if you want to make sure they don't wander away, and they live and breed well in pens. There is some terrific information from one of the nation's leading peacock producers in the next issue of the GAZETTE on how house and general care for the peacock.

Peahens are excellent mothers, but peachicks can be reared just as well in a brooder. They are among the easiest birds to raise. One thing to be careful about is to give them good shelters in the autumn and winter following their birth, as they are not fully grown before eight or ten months.

The Indian Blue Peacock has produced several mutations in captivity. These include the Black-shouldered, in which the male has the wings blue, green and black, the female being very pale; the White; and the Pied, in which the normal plumage of the Indian Blue is irregularly marked with white. The so-called 'Spalding' variey is a hybrid between the Indian and the Green species (one of the green peacock races shown in picture at left). It is very beautiful bird, intermediate between the two parents in colors, in hardiness and in temperament.

If you are interested in keeping the peacock, the best place to find birds for sale is in the Game Bird Gazette! In this magazine you'll also find the most up-to-date information on how to care for the peacock.

To keep up on the latest in peacock news and information, subscribe to the magazine, bookmark this page, and visit our website often!

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Rabbits World

National Rabbit Society Malta Annual Show 2004 Photos Part 3

2nd N.Dwarf Buck - Tony Cutajar

1st N.Dwarf Buck - Tony Cutajar

1st New Zealand Red Buck - Antoine Saliba

2nd New Zealand White Doe - Aldrin Attard

1st German Lap Doe - Antoine Saliba

N. Dwarf Buck - Tony Cutajar

3rd California Buck - Harold Attard

1st Best Medium Breed English Buck - Vivian Farrugia

new zealand red rabbits for sale

The New Zealand is a wonderful rabbit and makes a great beginner bunny. They are quite social and outgoing, and enjoy being part of the family. They like everybody and most household pets, and they are not biters.

One of their greatest features is that they usually love to be handled. Pick them up, set them down, or hold them in your lap! They are often likened to "big rag dolls" because they flop down kind of like a rag doll, accommodating any cuddly manner in which you wish to hold them. They can even be carried across your shoulder!

As with all good sized rabbits, the New Zealand will need a bigger area to move around in. They need regular excercise as they can gain weight easily. Keep treats to a minimum., even though your pet will beg you for them. The babies in our picture above will soon outgrow the cage we have them in

new zealand red rabbits
new zealand red rabbits
new zealand red rabbits
new zealand red rabbits
new zealand red rabbits

african grey parrots 2010

I’ve recently been handling lots of new clients in my parrot training
institute, coaching them through issues and spending a lot of time thinking about
why parrots end up having problems when it hit me… African Grey Parrots are the
2nd most likely parrot to develop behavior problems; Second only to the
Cockatoo.

But unlike Cockatoo’s who are in my opinion are not a good bird for the regular
parrot owner to own because of it’s nature… African grey Parrots don’t share the
Cockatoo’s same nature. So why do I have so many clients who’s African Grey’s
have problems?

So I thought I’d share some of my thoughts on this topic with you.

There are a lot of things involved in keeping an African Grey Parrot happy than
normal people would like to believe. Most of my clients think they can just walk
into any pet shop that sells hand fed baby African Grey’s and think their bird
will end up being perfect. Oh… if they only knew how much more was involved.

African Grey’s can tend to be a skittish type of parrot that spooks easily, gets
stressed easily and develops lots of phobias and behavior issues.

So even though I could sit here for weeks writing 743 articles on all the
different things you need to do to make sure your African Grey Parrot is happy.


But instead I’m going to focus on just one thing… TOYS!

Now don’t go clicking off the page just yet because you think you know that your
African Grey needs toys. I’m not trying to be condescending, and I know you
already know that toys are important.

But do you know how often your African Grey’s toys should be rotated or changed?
And better yet are you changing your birds toys frequently? Has your African
Grey had a toy in his cage for longer than a month or two?

These are all important questions to ask, because African Grey Parrots are
extremely intelligent and need to be placed in stimulating environments to
remain happy.

This means they need their toys constantly rotated in and out of their cages.
They need their toys hung from different parts of their cage.

You should be constantly searching for different shapes and textures of toy for
your African grey to interact with. Toys that are chewable, destructible, touch
to chew, easy to chew etc.

The key to a great stimulating environment boils down to rotating your African
Grey’s toys at least ever 2 weeks. And if you see a toy isn’t being touched or
destroyed first see if changing up it’s placement in the cage works… often
that’s enough to get the bird to start playing with it.

If rotating the toys location doesn’t work, and you still don’t see the toy
getting destroyed, than you should give up on that toy, remove it from his cage
and replace with something different.

If you don’t… you risk the chance of an otherwise intelligent creature getting
manic and bored and a bit psycho on you in the near future.

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