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He brought home pea fowl eggs six years ago and stuck them under a laying hen. Three hatched and the two males with their six foot long tails are now the undisputed rules of Hitt’s farm.
According to Hitt, the tails grow a foot a year. The birds lose their colorful appendages in August and September and the feathers start growing back in February, two feet for a twoyear-old, three feet for a three year old and so on. “They have every color you can imagine. They’re like a rainbow. You know the saying ‘Proud as a peacock?’ Well, it's sure right.”
And these strutting definitions of pride have plenty to strut about. Their exotic hues seem out of place alongside the faded paint of wagons and tractors and the dull browns of March farm fields. They belong against a backdrop of shimmering waterfalls, wild orchids and rain forest.
All the color isn’t in the peacock’s tail. Necks that sway and undulate like a belly dancer’s tummy are bright blue—a blue that the sky tries for but never quite achieves, a blue that would turn the Mediterranian Sea green with envy. A feathered comb crowns the head and the peacock's masked face, stark black over snowy white, lends the bird an air of mystery.
Wings speckled cream and brown in an imitation snake skin pattern are banded with wide stripes, first black and then orange, that merge into the tail. And oh. what a tail it is. Carried straight out behind, it’s a banner of irridescent shades of emerald green, jade green, lime green, mint green and deep, dark green melting into still deeper, darker green, all streaked with gold and hues
Spring Event
The Washington Baptist Church will have their annual Spring Event on Saturday. April 17, beginning at 10 a.m. along with the Fodderstack classic race.
Hot lunches will be served and there will be other features including a plant sale, odds and ends sale and a bake sale.
Any donations will be greatly appreciated and the public is invited.
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