Next year I was thinking of adding a couple peacocks to our flock. We are building a new chicken palace so I was thinking it should accomodate peacocks if I ever decide to get them.
How high to you need the ceilings to be?
Is a 12x12 big enough?
Can they be trained to roost in their home at night like my guineas and chickens?
What should a beginner start with age wise for peacocks? (adults, chicks, juvies???)
How loud are they really?
Do they stray?
Thanks in advance!
Peacocks....what are they really all about?
They are really loud! But more than that they sound very human--like a woman calling for help. Some farmers around here have them. I love them and would definitely get them if I had the space---lots of space far away from anyone else:0)
My peacock, Beep is loose in my yard and only strays next door or occasionally to the front yard. He really isn't that loud, but he is not totally mature yet. I would have to say that he causes less problems than any other animal around here and is very entertaining when he displays (even though he doesn't have his full train yet.) I really love him and would recomend them for anybody.
What size home does he have? And I LOVE the name!
He is named Beep because that is the sound he has always made to me. When I first got him and a sibling, they were about 6 weeks old and I contained them to an 8x10 pen for several weeks, thinking that when I let them out they would return there to sleep. Not a chance. They much prefered the top of the chicken pen as a roost. A neighbors dog jumped our fence and killed the second bird (Toot) a year later (dog went for a long ride to a no kill shelter the next time he came down here). So we now just have Beep. He likes to roost in a couple of trees or on top of the hen house or our roof. If the weather is really bad, he will go in one of the covered pens.
He's pretty funny. We call him the mayor of Williamsburg as he feels that everyone (including me) has it's certain place in the yard and he tries to guide them there. If I am out of the yard and within his sight, he calls for me to come back. He also will fan to drive the grackles away.
I'm looking for a female for him, but they are a bit sparse around here and I can't afford the $100 the guy wants for a grown one.
Even my husband, who said That he'd never have a peacock in his yard (guess who bought him for me!) likes Beep.
Hmmmm I will do some serious reading about them. I just hope NH isn't too harse for them. Especially if they don't want to roost in a house at night. Beep sounds like a great bird and good luck finding him a gal!
Good grief. We live in north west michigan. It's no worse than N.H.
LoraK when I started looking for a goat the first place I visited here in Canandaigua had peacocks. They had taken an old corn crib to house the peacocks (I think there were 3 of them in there) and used an old ladder bolted across the top as a perch. This corn crib had a roof to it. That was the extent of their shelter in a zone 5 garden. They stayed there year round.
MollyD
Just something to look at.
When I was growing up a neighbor had one. The screech was AWFUL and it's favorite place to roost seemed to be OUR railing on our porch. They are beautiful, our neighbor's bird sure wandered and I have not been tempted to get one. Probably like any other creature... when they are your own, you are more tolerant and less apt to think it's a nuisance! LOL
Great looking bird! What does he roost in?
ONe of my peacocks. We will have white ones in June they are soooo beautiful
How loud are they? I need the loudest one. Its war here in Woodsville NH!
They are really loud & scary during mating season. Tips we worm with inject-able ivermect. The house floor is sand ,no smell and here in Louisiana we are prone to worms (not the good kind) So after a good rain or we will wet the sand then we spread salt that kills Worms) parasites.
Trying to remember things as I go sorry.
Joyce
really lovely birds, we'd like to get some as well but like someone said, they are quite expensive
they are not expensive if you find a local breeder.
The lady near me sells hers some @ 6 weeks unsexed for about 30.00-40.00 dollars of course you would have to pay shipping.
The older they are the more expensive.
I just bought 2 female & 1 Male for 180.00.
I am on the waiting list for the whites.She even has lilac geun.
Hi All,
Don't worry about them sleeping in trees in winter. They huddle over their feet anso they wont freeze. I had chickens that wouldn't go in their house, and only had a problem with one, she got wedged in a fence and I didn't find her till she was nearly dead. That winter her feet froze off because she couldn't get on the roost, or tree. She hatched and raised a brood of chicks. She was a big pet!
Audrey
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how nice of you to take good care of her! someone here on DG has a silkie with no feet, becaseu they froze in a water pan!