Provide a wooden shelter similar to a small shed or barn. You can bed this area with straw and keep a warming light inside. Provide large shed or barn, if you have nesting peahens. Use hanging dishes inside the shed for providing foods, and keep the water elevated so that you do not get droppings in it. You will need to cover their pen, because peafowls are great flyers. Usually peafowl like to roost at night. You have to make suitable roosting place for them inside the house.
Ensure well ventilation system. Make the house suitable enough for preventing all types of predators, such as raccoon wild dogs or foxes. Peafowls are omnivorous. They eat almost everything whether any plant or animal matter. Wild figs, berries and nuts are favorite foods in season, but seeds, grain and leaves are staple items all year.
They also love to catch and eat mice, frogs, small snakes, various types of small mammals, various types of insects such as ants, grasshoppers, termites etc. Usually they drink water during their midday rest and while eating in late afternoon.
They drink again just before going to roost. You can also feed your peafowl a wide range of crops and fruits such as bananas, chilly, groundnut, paddy, tomato etc. If you have any peachicks, you can feed them turkey starter feed, boiled chicken eggs etc.
There are some advantages of mating during this season. Peachicks benefit from the abundance of food resulting from the rains. Peacocks show their trains and dance for attracting the peahens. Each peacock mate with 5 to 6 peahens in his group during this season.
After successful mating, peahens lay eggs. Usually it takes about 27 to 30 days to hatch their eggs. Taking good care of your peafowls is very important for good growth and also good health of the birds.
So, always try to take good care of your birds. Always try to keep good contact with a vet in your area. Peacock farming is well-spread throughout the world and it is considered as a very lucrative business. Most of the peacock farmer raise them for the purpose of producing their colorful feathers, and also for selling live birds to the fanciers. The peacock experiment was operating smoothly until they discovered the cat food on our front porch.
Instead of frolicking among the trees, they hung out on the porch near the cat food. They started perching on the rails of the porch and the roof of the house instead of in the trees. The birds are beautiful, but their guano is not. Little fecal Hershey kisses were everywhere on our porch. I had to clean and spray down the porch daily.
The experiment was over. Fast forward eight years when I got word of a new peacock experiment happening in my neck of the woods. My oldest son wants peacock feathers for his homemade fishing flies.
If he can keep them off my porch, in three years he might have a tail feather to use fishing and new found patience to test. Up-to-date agriculture news in your inbox! We are glad you have chosen to leave a comment. Please keep in mind that comments are moderated according to our comment policy. Toll-Free Thursday, November 11, Co-ops that once brought electricity to rural Ohio work to offer….
That is up to you to decide. They need about sq. Raising peafowl is a decision that should not be taken lightly.
While there are many good things about the experience, there are also many drawbacks. Reactions: EverythingDucks and PhoredaBurds. Latest reviews WannaBeHillBilly 5. An excellent summary about the pro's and the con's of keeping peafowl. Great link-collection. Helped me to decide not to keep peafowl in the forseeable future. Shadrach 4.
This would be me. I never considered keeping them and found a few pieces of useful information in this article. I would have liked some extended details on how to house them, although the links provided extended reading that covers this.
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Should you add peacocks to your homestead? By Aislinn Sarnacki Last updated Jan 10, An India blue peacock at 4Ds Farm in Maine. Photo by Scott DeMoranville With its dazzling fan of colorful feathers, the peacock is the prima donna of domestic birds.
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