Subject:  ANOTHER EVEREST EMERGENCY |
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Date Posted: 08:07:00 03/02/07 Fri
Way back when Everest was a long legged yearling he was
startled by Gold Dust the cat and had a short but worrisome
adventure. But he no longer has any fear of Gold Dust.
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This morning after I had just fed the chickens I heard the
sound of a peacock hitting the penwire followed by much
wing fluttering. The sound of a peafowl hitting penwire is
common but all that fluttering afterwards did sound like
trouble.
Then I saw Everest several feet up stuck to the end of the
flight pen. So I hurried to the pen speaking some
"peafowlese" words that a peahen uses for calming her
peachicks as I approached Everest, took a firm grip at the
base of both wings and unhooked his left spur from the
dogwire. I placed him on a tire to rest and calm down while
I held him trying to see if he had any injury. All I could
find was some abrasion of the spur that had been hung on
the wire. As I released my grip on his wings slowly and
stepped away from him, his panic departed and his
"attitude" returned.
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Everest has ivory white spurs approximately an inch long.
They are very sharp which is normal for peacocks but the
curve is not. I checked his maternal grandfather and found
his ebony black spurs about the same size but not as
curved. Then I went back to see Neverland, the Insane
whose spurs were small for a 1996 hatch green peacock.
Everest's mother, Malpo, has spurs that curve DOWNWARD.
Everest's spurs curve up.
Some time back I found a rooster hung on the fence by
his spur. This rooster was able to walk away clucking
bravely to tell the world that he was OK
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