I have 5 peafowl. I keep them in a 40x50ft. pen with 15ft. tall netting because they can fly. 2 are India Blue peafowl (common type) one is a pied white eyed, the other is a pied, and the last is a blackshoulder. Here is Alto, my yearling male India Blue... This is Dragon Bird my three year old pied white eyed... Here is Pip, my yearling India Blue hen... Here is Ice, my three year old blackshoulder hen... Last but not least Damsel, my two year old India Blue pied hen... Peafowl are found in almost all zoos. They are a very popular bird and do really well free-range. They don't scratch as much as chickens or turkeys so they won't mess up pretty gardens and they eat bugs and kill snakes. Males only make the loud "Ahhhh ahhh" call when they are of breeding age, which is three years of age. This is also the age they get their first train, which is not really their tail but tail coverts. The real tail is much shorter and is used to support the train in display. Peafowl do not cost much to buy, adult birds can cost $100 here in the US, but are higher priced in Australia. I am a member of the UPA (United Peafowl Association) which is a great association of peafowl owners and breeders. There are tons of different breeds of peafowl thanks to the dedication of breeders who want to make new colors of peafowl. The Green Peafowl (species like Javas, Indo-chinese, and Burmese) are very exotic. These birds are more wild than the blues (India Blues), and are more pricey. Green peafowl are of course green, but they have scale like feathers on their neck with a yellow loral patch (yellow patch on face). Unlike India Blues with their fanlike crests (the feathers ontop of their head) Greens have a crest that is tight and doesn't fan out (sort of like a closed fan). Green peahens (females) unlike India Blue females are just as colorful as the males sporting the same colors normally a bit duller though. They don't have trains yet are just as striking. Greens and blues have been breed which has created a hybrid called a Spaulding. Spauldings normally are turquose looking, yet some are called Emerald Spauldings, meaning they have a high % of green blood. Some Emerald Spauldings look just like a green peafowl, but are not so for people looking for a pure green peafowl they must watch out for Emerald Spauldings, they can look just like greens. If you want to know more about peafowl in general than feel free to ask questions or if you want to know more about my peafowl, like how I care for them, what are their favorite foods, how I got them, ect. then you can ask stuff like that too.
Lol what?! Good news, my peahen Ice has laid an egg and is now setting on it! I was afraid she wouldn't set, but looks like she will!
Nice birds, I always enjoyed them. I wished they weren't so loud, and the ones I have had have been pretty stupid. Hopefully yours haven't been.
Like a horse they just tried to find ways to hurt themselves. For instance walking into the road, jumping into our dog kennels, and venturing outside the barn at night instead of staying safely inside. You should incubate your eggs then you would get more chicks. Have you thought about getting any other birds?
I can't tell you how many zoo peafowl I've known to fly into lion or tiger enclosures... and not fly out.
Lol my birds do only one stupid thing. They act like they can't fly over fences. Sadly my peahen Ice is sick, so we will have to treat her. We will be incubating her eggs because she won't incubate them. I candled them today and they were not developed so she has not been setting on them like she should.
Okay finally a new update... Ice Dragon's train Here is part of their pen...It is 40x50 ft. and 15ft. tall with netting as a top. Alto with his first eye feather. He will be two this year! Damsel Some "enrichment" lol this is Alto pecking at a can we use to hold their sunflower seeds.
Hello everyone. Just wanted to revive an old topic to talk a bit about how my peafowl are doing. I have 7 right now (3 males, 4 females). Their aviary has filled out with different plants a lot. I have been able to find some tough plants that peafowl will not destroy. I hope to make 2-3 more aviaries. I want a new aviary for green peafowl. I love green peafowl so much, and they are endangered, so I really want to take on breeding them. Anyways I also have a website with many more photos on there so here is my site for my peafowl and I do sell peafowl and peafowl feathers so keep that in mind: The Bamboo Peacock 3 year old India Blue split to white or pied peacock Peep. 4 year old India Blue Pied peahen Damsel.
What's the average clutch size for peafowl? Are they like chickens where they have to be socialised as chicks in order to interact with their species as adults? Is there a visual way to determine the gender of a chick or do you have to wait for the full plumage to develop?
