Tuesday, November 19, 2019

NaBloPoMo - Day 19 - Another Day, Another Peacock

From this:

To this:

This is Petey... he is a peacock...
He is the one egg that was laid this year out of about a dozen that actually hatched.
They talk about how hard it is to raise peacocks, but he made it...

He's now definitely a young male peacock...
For a while there, we thought Petey might be a girl,
but within the last couple of weeks, his neck feathers brightened up
and he started tail flapping which will help get those muscles ready
when he is full grown and has his train...

I'm hoping I'll get to see it in three years when he fully matures...
kinda like I waited for Prince's train to come in...


If you remember, I wrote about back in April.
Unfortunately, about 3 weeks ago, he didn't show up in the barn
and a couple of days later I found a clump of white feathers.
Another loss to the bobcat...
I was to the point of crying over this loss...
To raise a pet patiently waiting for that final display 
and then losing it so suddenly was too much to handle.
Not to mention that my mother hand-raised him
it really hit me hard.

Now we're doing everything we can to protect Petey...
But, if there's one thing I've learned being on this property,
you can do everything right and all it takes is a single
moment for everything to suddenly go wrong...
Here's to hoping...

1 comment:

betty said...

Prince was cute and I'm sorry about his demise! That had to be hard on top of his connection with your mom. Let's hope Petey has a fighting chance and lives a long life! You know, I don't think it really matters where someone lives and the wildlife around it. Can't tell you how many times the news reports about coyotes getting dogs/cats in Scottsdale which is a "snobby" city next to us. Its all around and we just try to be careful if we have any type of animals we want to protect.

betty

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