@senil888 @greenleafsama it⌠Itâs not wild OR exotic. They are domestic game fowl in the US, the same as turkeys and pheasants. Theyâre farm animals at this point. Like chickens, just with different care needs. Theyâre sold at farm auctions and game bird swap meets alongside all other kinds of domestic fowl, and most of them arenât even that expensive, like you can get a plain blue like that for $50-100 around here, which is the same amount I paid I adopt my cat. Theyâve been bred so domestically and for so long that there are literally hundreds of color/pattern mutation combos. Do you even know purple peafowl actually exist? Bronze? Opal? Silver pied? Even most of those wonât put you out by more than $200 if youâre just looking for a pet. People pay more for dogs. Rats, mice, rabbits, and guinea pigs are considered âexoticsâ by vets, but that doesnât mean we havenât domesticated them.
Chief was almost certainly being sold because someone hatched him on purpose from their pets. Chances are good that if these two have a âlocalâ livestock auction, they live in some approximation of âthe countryâ rather than the city, so Iâm guessing they are perfectly capable of keeping both of these birds just fine. Whether they do or not I donât know, but even if they donât, it wouldnât change the fact that plenty of people on farms do.
Like me, for example. Hereâs one of my purple kids looking for some attention. Thatâs their pen in the background. He was out free ranging with my chickens.
One of my ladies begging for a treat:
Hereâs a baby I was babysitting for a friend down the road that has them. Two of my other neighbors have them too.
Like. Theyâre galliformes, the same as chickens, the same as turkeys. They look fancy but I promise you, theyâre not.
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