Rural Gardening: Boy peacocks or Girl peacocks?, 1 by kenboy

kenboy wrote:
Nadine and Terri, this year gather the first clutch of eggs and set them under a brood hen then let the peahen set her second clutch. This way your more likely to end up with something after all is over. Peachicks are very prone to getting worms and where a chicken will live through it, peachicks will sometimes die in just a few weeks. I keep my peachicks off the ground until they are about three months and then worm them every other week. Once frost has hit they are good to go. Terri, I know you have not had chickens and other fowl for very long, so your soil is not as contaminated with worms that affect peafowl and your peahen raised her own brood but the longer you have fowl on your place, the less likely your hen can do this.

I am pretty sure both of you have Purple hens and I now know that Nadines cock is split to Purple. He came from a friend in NY and is not kin to any of my birds. You two could trade birds to keep fresh blood and produce Blues, Blue Pieds, Blue Silver pieds, Purple, Purple Pieds, Purple Silver Pieds and Whites.

This is a young Purple Spalding cock;