The Peacock

A peacock's tail feathers can reach up to six feet long and make up about 60 percent of its body length. 1. Only the males are actually peacocks.”

During courtship, the male spreads his train of feathers and makes it shiver to attract the female. During molting season, the males shed their train feathers and their grey quill feathers are more obvious. The Peacocks brilliant ‘train' contains over 200 shimmering feathers, each one decorated with eyespots.

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I need 4 females & 1 male , + white peacock male & female. Indian blue peafowls are the mostly raised domestic species and very popular for their mild and timid nature. Some common peafowl breeds are Blue Indian, Black Shoulder, Bufford Bronze, Charcoal, Cameo, Green Peafowl (Java Green), Opal, Oaten, Spalding, Purple, White, Pied etc.

Usually peafowls have three species and rest are the hybirds or crosses. Peacocks dance raising their tail plumage to attract peahens, which is very impressive and mind blowing. Peacocks have very attractive tail and they use their beautiful tail for attracting the peahens.

Peacocks are also among those poultry birds. Generally two legged creatures who have feathers are called birds. Along with profit, people usually keep various types of birds for the purpose of producing fresh food.

From the ancient time, people like bird's egg and meat on their table. I didn't even know only the males had the pretty feathers! The female peahen incubates her eggs by sitting on them, and the peacock chicks hatch after an incubation period of about a month.

During the mating season, the male peacock may mate with up to six different female peahens. The peacock is an omnivorous bird and feeds on insects , plants, seeds, and flower heads. Since we do not have a definitive tradition about the status of peacocks (peahens) - their status is in doubt, and they should not be eaten.

During the Medieval period, various types of fowl were consumed as food, with the poorer populations (such as serfs ) consuming more common birds , such as chicken However, the more wealthy gentry were privileged to less usual foods, such as swan, and even peafowl were consumed. Among Ashkenazi Jews , the golden peacock is a symbol for joy and creativity, with quills from the bird's feathers being a metaphor for a writer's inspiration. 36 The 'eyes' in the peacock's tail feathers symbolise the all-seeing Christian God and - in some interpretations - the Church.

In Hellenistic imagery, the Greek goddess Hera 's chariot was pulled by peacocks, birds not known to Greeks before the conquests of Alexander Alexander's tutor, Aristotle , refers to it as "the Persian bird". Its royal emblem remained the peacock until Emperor Ashoka changed it to Lions , as seen in the Lion Capital of Ashoka , as well in his edicts The peacocks significance of elegance and royalty pertained in India during medieval times, as it was the Mughal seat of power called the Peacock Throne.

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