I have a "baker's dozen" peafowl!

I got another peacock (the male with the feathers) & 3 more peahens (white, silver & pied) for my anniversary! I must be the luckiest woman alive!

Sorry Jesseree! Don't know anything about peafowl, but what good are they except very pretty birds? I'm listening.

They make great sentries; we used to hate the ones my aunt owned. When, as teenagers, we came in after curfew they would always loudly announce our arrival: "HELP! HELP, HELP!"

jessaree, how beautiful! They all look so happy. My first and only male is doing well. I think he might be molting, though. Do you know when they molt? I'm a newbie with the fowl things ;)....

Haystack, my peacock, Mr Chicken, is in with 9 Brahma pullets and one possible male Brahma-was-supposed-to-be-a-pullet. The peacock gets along very well so far with the hens and whatever the other one is (I'm taking photos of him/her tonight and posting to get oppinions). We have a bold coyote population on our property and we actually witnessed one coyote approaching the chicken run in broad daylight. Mr Chicken was up on his perch scanning the horizon (pasture under hay and very difficult to spot anything of coyote size until they are close). Boy, talk about noise! The hens went running for the coop post haste. My DH and I work many hours and can't be home to monitor the chickens as we would like. We keep the hens and the peacock in their run and have enforced it to the point where we feel confident that it would take a long time to work through the fencing and the ground blocks. But we've decided that Mr Chicken is earning his keep as an early warning alarm system. He also put on quite a tail display as the coyote was running away from the noise. Of course coyote would have won without the fence, but still.....not to mention the fact that he is a really funny guy!

Peacocks start to moult in early summer. As soon as my hen hatched her eggs, he realised that he wouldn't be needing that tail any more and started to drop feathers. The whole train is gone now.

Ah, good. I was a little worried about him. Thanks for letting me know jylgaskin!

The older cock in the boackground looks like he may be split to white by his white wing feathers. Because pieds are co-dominent to white, if he breeds the Silver Pied hen you will get some Silver Pied chicks. Bred to the White hen, you will get 1/2 White and 1/2 split to white.