Peafowl.com Report Bloghttp://www.peafowl.com/index.htmlPeafowl.com Report Blogenpeafowlmail@peafowl.comCopyright 2008 Peacock Information Center2008-04-13T08:21:44-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:25:46 -0500Trained Peafowl Part 2 & 3peafowlmail@peafowl.comTrained Peacocks2008-04-13T08:21:44-05:00http://www.peafowl.com/peafowlblog_files/b56bec9e7ac7b5c9cb7004bb33d4ff60-6.html#unique-entry-id-6http://www.peafowl.com/peafowlblog_files/b56bec9e7ac7b5c9cb7004bb33d4ff60-6.html#unique-entry-id-6The second vintage video clip from the 90's has Dennis Fett showing off his peacocks and peahens jumping up several feet into the air on command.  The birds really love jumping up for treats all year long.




The final classic video clip shows Fett's  peacocks and peahens untying his shoes.  This unusual behavior happened one day when several peacocks and peahens found some treats around owner Dennis Fett's feet. Soon they were picking at his shoe laces and later started  untying  his shoes if Fett stayed in one spot long while doing chores. 

 ]]>Corn prices hit $6.00 per bushelpeafowlmail@peafowl.comPrice of corn2008-04-04T15:13:18-05:00http://www.peafowl.com/peafowlblog_files/df73e30d5e97b4c697e181c6f3827f36-5.html#unique-entry-id-5http://www.peafowl.com/peafowlblog_files/df73e30d5e97b4c697e181c6f3827f36-5.html#unique-entry-id-5Bushel! They say it's even going up more the next year as well, not good news for peafowl owners and breeders.

See the story on this page http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080403/corn_at_6.html?.v=6

The price of corn, game bird food and any product that includes corn will cost us more! I hit the roof on 1-14-08 when the price of corn was $4.57. Yes, I know that all prices go up but this much of a price increase was never expected. Now 4 months later we hit record prices. If you think that your billfold expenses for your peafowl is the only place that it is going to cost you, think again. Every animal that is fed with corn will have a higher price because of the corn prices.

I may make some mad but this is a way to steal more of our hard earned money in every part of life to include the price of heating our house along with the high price of gas for our cars and now corn.

The price of peafowl will get higher and higher because of the price of corn. This is not good as this will depress an already slow peafowl market in 2008. We look to see an even slower peafowl market for the next 18-24 months and possibly longer depending on the price of feed and other items associated in the raising of peafowl.

We have always promoted peafowl for 28 years and wanted as many people as possible to have them. However, as prices increase, people will not be willing to spend what it really costs to breed peafowl. It should be noted that peafowl are one of the most expensive birds in the poultry world. This is due to the fact that it takes peafowl 2 years to breed.

Please report to us the cost of feed (corn & 28-30% game bird) in your area and we will post a list of what we get to see what is going on all around the USA.

Also please write us your feelings on feed prices and we will post them on the blog.

In the future I plan on allowing people to post comments on each blog entry. Till then, please e-mail us your feelings...include as much info on yourself for this blog.

Till next time, keep peafowling!]]>Clarinet Playing Peacock Farmerpeafowlmail@peafowl.comClarinet2008-03-20T10:05:02-05:00http://www.peafowl.com/peafowlblog_files/34b658f5df6e51291dfea965fc1ca04e-7.html#unique-entry-id-7http://www.peafowl.com/peafowlblog_files/34b658f5df6e51291dfea965fc1ca04e-7.html#unique-entry-id-7
Fett returned to the stage after a 25 year hiatus from playing his clarinet to be a finalist in Iowa's Got Talent  contest (In April 2007) to perform a clarinet solo called Immer Kleiner (always smaller). This song requires Fett to start playing his clarinet all together and then gradually start taking it apart piece by piece, ending up playing only the mouthpiece. Fett chose to dedicate his entire musical career of 34 years to teaching music education in the public schools foregoing any professional playing aspirations and opportunities.

Although Fett feels that this performance of Immer Kleiner on YouTube could be better and wish it was, he released this video as an encouragement to all past instrumentalists to pick up their instrument and play again for fun.

Fett has had fun over the last year since his played at the Iowa's Got Talent show and was also bitten by the performance "bug" after returning to the stage. He was inspired to write two more novelty arrangements like Immer Kleiner and performed one of them at a juvenile diabetes benefit concert. Fett and also created a 40 minute clarinet novelty act that also features him singing the peacock song he & his wife wrote.




]]>Our Trained Peacockpeafowlmail@peafowl.comTrained Peacocks2008-03-18T23:27:11-05:00http://www.peafowl.com/peafowlblog_files/bf3badb4d21ebcf31fc1f7717aac08b8-3.html#unique-entry-id-3http://www.peafowl.com/peafowlblog_files/bf3badb4d21ebcf31fc1f7717aac08b8-3.html#unique-entry-id-3
]]>Read a story from Lowell's Limerickspeafowlmail@peafowl.comA story from Lowell's Limericks2008-03-16T13:47:25-05:00http://www.peafowl.com/peafowlblog_files/5e9e6e87e870fcac6d49787f048d3d83-8.html#unique-entry-id-8http://www.peafowl.com/peafowlblog_files/5e9e6e87e870fcac6d49787f048d3d83-8.html#unique-entry-id-8


Lowell’s Limericks & Life Stories
by Lowell Henry Buck
Edited by Debra Joan Buck

Chapter 4, “Growing Up”, Page 41

Drive To Town – 1926

My brother and I thought I would be fun to drive my father’s car to town. I was 5 years old and my brother ‘Bob’ was 4 years old. Town was four miles away. We had seen our father drive many a time so we knew how.

The car was a model ‘T’ Ford and to start it my father parked it on a hill. He had the emergency brake on and a rock in front of the back wheel and when he wanted to start it, he took the rock out, released the emergency brake, put it in gear and that would turn over the motor to start it. The farm buildings were on each side of the lane built on the side hill. The corn crib was the last building and from there was a gate to the pasture.

My brother was to drive; imagine a four year old driving, I was to get the rock out to release the emergency brake. I got the rock away from the wheel, got in beside my brother, released the emergency brake and down the hill we went, past the chicken house, the cob house, the house, the barn, the hog house, and finally past the corn crib, through the pasture gate, which for some reason was open, out into the pasture and there coasted to a stop.

The miracle is that no one saw us doing anything. My father thought he had left the emergency brake off and the car rolled out there without anyone doing anything. My brother and I didn’t volunteer any information either, another secret between my brother and me.



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]]>New Web Pagepeafowlmail@peafowl.comNew Page2008-03-15T18:06:21-05:00http://www.peafowl.com/peafowlblog_files/7ad48dd8cf206085353715084222167d-0.html#unique-entry-id-0http://www.peafowl.com/peafowlblog_files/7ad48dd8cf206085353715084222167d-0.html#unique-entry-id-0
Peafowl.com was the first peacock/peafowl page up in 1996 during the internet maiden years. We have seen the internet world grow the last 12 years as everyone had to be on the internet. I can recall the local NBC affiliate asking me what was this http://www thing. Many people felt that the internet was a waste of time . We never felt that way as it has made the world of peafowl bigger today!

We have been writing on our web page since 1996 and when people started using the term blog, I was amused that everyone had to have a Blog. I never wanted one and our Newsletter headline page as our web page was today's blog. I even said I would never use the term "blog". I have become like everyone else as I now have a "blog"! and caved in. Our new web design program has a real nice page to "blog" and now this is our new Peafowl Report On Line Edition.

I will not commit to a regular schedule but will write as time permits. I am sure I will do so more often as this is new and will do less as time goes on. This will be a tease to our printed version to the Peafowl Report that will soon start its 18 year!


We hope you will come back soon and often as we will provide lots more photos of your peafowl and later on you home peafowl videos for our 1000's of visitors! Keep tuned for details of how and what kind of photos and videos we are looking for.

In closing this first entry, we hope for a fun future with our new web design and hope you like it as much as we do!

Dennis M. Fett,
Director/Founder
Peacock Information Center












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