There’s a lot of peacocks out roaming around Horsepower for Kids animal sanctuary.
These young ladies were having a dirt bath out in the cow pasture. I use the term bath loosely since they are rolling around in years of dried cow poop dirt. They do this to keep the bugs off.
There were several young males showing off near the ladies but I think they are all siblings. The young males don’t have the longer feathers like the grown up males do yet.
After their dirt bath, the young females wandered over to the chicken coup. I think they were trying to find a way to get in so they can get the feed.
Later I saw some lady peacocks hanging around the tortoise pens. They were also looking for food sitting around. They had babies with them and the babies couldn’t figure out how to get in the pens.
One of the babies made it over the fence but the others kept running along the boards like “Where’s Mom going?” Eventually the babies figured out if they went around to the back Mom was meeting them back there. They were looking at me like “Lady help us over”. It was tempting but I wanted to see what they would do. After they met back up with Mom they headed to the bushes behind the pens for a nap.
They are such gorgeous birds and I love the little babies!
They are gorgeous birds and those little baby ones were so cute.
I do love peafowl. The chicks are adorable!
~Cie the Ornery Old Lady~
Hello,
The peacocks are beautiful birds, the babies are adorable. Great series of photos. Thank you for linking up your post. Enjoy your day, wishing you a happy new week ahead!