They are very easy to tame down and are incredibly friendly and curious birds. The odd female has been known to do this display as well. Young males particularly like to practice this when they have an audience. He moves his neck in a snake-like manner while bouncing forward on both legs with his tail flung up in the air. This breeding display consists of the the male tilting as far forward as possible without falling on his head with his wings spread and his cheek feathers slanted forward to cover part of his eyes and beak. Impeyans do make a high pitched scream/shriek when they feel threatened and a hiss/heavy breathing noise during their breeding display. See Scintillating Copper Article for predator proofing set-up.Pens contain grass, but since Impeyans are rooters, need to move to another pen every 1-3 years to let the grass come back.1 Impeyan Hut (1' x 1' x 2' high) containing straw in the corner for laying eggs.Pens are covered with 2" diamond top-rite.25' long x 10' wide x 6' high with a 4' x 4' x 4' house in the middle.You can mix quite a variety of ages and sexes without problems. Chicks are very easy to raise together with their own kind.After they are toughened up, they are moved to an outside chick pen. After they are off of the heat for a few weeks, they are moved outside to the pheasant house (has outside grassy pens and a heated inside house part where they are blocked in for the night).The heat lamp is attached to a dimmer switch so we can turn down the amount of heat as the chicks get older until it is turned off completely. All of these brooding pens have wire bottoms with a heat lamp at one end and feed & water at the other end. They stay with this grouping until they are sold. They are then transferred to an all Impeyan 2' x 6' pen for the next 7-9 weeks. After a few days they are separated into a 2' x 4' baby pen for about a week. They start out in our round 18" brooder pen with a mixed assortment of chicks. They look like tiny brown and black striped sumo wrestlers with stocky stubby legs.
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