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Show Rare Birds Hobby of Brent Pyper Family The Chinese ring neck working with his father. variety of bird and is quite While living in Cali- tame, frequently left to doves, which are not really a pigeon but a true dove, Two years ago Spring fornia, Brent had over 400 roam outside his pen. life are the architectural has a birds. Some Honch w and such Brent expectelcomed 'reeds, City 5 of as children the and Java Green perfectionists of the bird years. ancy Kathy Pyper Among Brents present world. If their Steven, Kammie and Peacocks, had to be left nests are not Brent brought behind due to the severity 100 birds are 19 white Katrina. with him from California of the Utah winters. The Indian fan tail pigeons. just right, they will tear his unusual hobby, raising Java Greens, Brent said, When Brent began raising them apart and rebuild. White Peace Doves unusual and rare breeds of are a rare peacock which them they sold for about cost about $1,200 for a $1 per pair, but now as always hatch in pairs and birds. Even as a small boy matched pair. They are with everything else, have a life span of about Brent was involved in his the only breed of peacock prices have risen, and five years. Brent also is raising hobby, having first learn- which has been known to today a pair costs about ed how to care for pigeons attack a man. Brent still $25. Twice a week the some Pieds, which are from his father, Carl owns a pair of Java White pigeons'have their baths, a cross between the lie on Chinese ring necks and Pyper, who also now peacocks, rarities which after which they their sides and fluff out the white peace doves. resides here. Brent feels cost about $350 a pair. A Indian their feathers and pick The rare Pieds can no that his interest in birds each feather clean with longer breed again. His named to the Blue peacock came about due Money in the Pond, as closeness he developed in Honch is a more common their beaks. he calls it, is his wood ducks. He has 23 babies that survived out of 29. He sells the babies to a man in California who in turn sells them to zoos, aviaries, and Wood ducks parks. require a special nesting box to make them think they are in the wild so that they will reproduce. They only mate in the spring of the year, and they moult during the summer, and then in the fall they get their color back again. The wood ducks mate for life; only if one of the mates dies do they find another mate. The incubation period for wood ducks is 28 to 33 days. They climb up a board into a special nesting box which drops Ducks and geese usually seen only in the wilds are part of Brent Pyper's them into the bottom into one-hapeat moss and collection. one-hashavings. After the eggs are hatched the babies climb up the mesh wire out the hole and head for water, never to return to the nest again. Brents wood ducks live in a e cement pond. Brent's pride and joys are his Canadian geese. He raised his first ones from two eggs. They are good watch dogs, he says, as they honk loudly when ... by Nedra Alfred 40-4- lf lf man-mad- r , any one come around. One of ie most interesting sigits in his Japanese Silky Hens. One of his hens has one chick, and the other one has two peacock chicks which she hatched out. .The Silky hen has adopted the peacock chicks and is teaching them how to scratch for their food. The baby chicks have to be taught to scratch for their food. Chicks that are raised in incubators do not ever learn to scratch for their food, as they do not have a hen to teach them, Brent says. When the peacock was out in the yard the hen was not even a little afraid of him and still fought him back away from babies. her are hard Silkies Japaneese to come by. They are an imported bird, and the ones are not as rare as the pure brown ones that Brent has in his collection. The one he knows of no one in this area of the state. On top of his bird cages he has placed deer horns and the birds love to perch on them and look over the neighborhood. Interested people are welcome to come and see the birds. Groups and school classes are more than welcome as it is an education for the students and Brent is like an encyclopedia when it comes to the care and knowledge of his birds. Kathy has her own hobby which is her checkered giant rabbits, Lady and the Tramp, which have two babies at this time. Japanese Getting Married? Let us Print Your Invitations. 1 Quality, Accuracy, Low Prices COME IN AND LOOK AT OUR WORK 835-424- Afcny accessories avtihblt , . . 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