How many eggs does one peahen lay and what time frame is that?

[Birdrain92]

Does anyone here sell the peafowl eggs? Or the peafowl chicks?

Depends on the area you are in. I've got some peachicks and I'm in Idaho but I don't ship my peachicks.

 

[allbirds4me]

Thanks so much, my beleif always is anything is a price of what someone wants to pay for

So eggs not being bred..aren't doing me any good just going in the trash right?

Sooooo, I guess your saying..sell them eh?
Hehehehe

not for hatching eggs, only for consumption at that point in time.

 

[oldguy]

I have 6 hens all in pens with 3 cocks I averaged 42 eggs per bird last year. But I was only feeding laying mash to them all year. The earliest I got an egg last year was late February. I did maintain a 85% hatch rate last year also. So I've had very good luck with my flock!

Good to know - thanks!

 

[Bee Buzy]

Do you all leave your eggs in the pen for the Peahen to hatch herself? thx

 

[Birdrain92]

Do you all leave your eggs in the pen for the Peahen to hatch herself? thx

The second clutch I let my hens hatch.

 

[Bee Buzy]

thx

 

[lalady59]

What age do they start?

2years for hens

 

[lalady59]

What age do they start?

I'm sure you know by now but I just went through my FIRST Laying season and tho i probably didn't collect the FIRST of my peahen's eggs, I did incubate the first ones I found and those did hatch !!!
I felt like they wouldn't bc often the first from a chicken aren't fertile. My 2 hens were 2 this season, and that's not a SOLID 2 meaning she was a June 2015 hatchling herself and I got the first egg in April. Also my male (4yrs) and she had never mated that I witnessed.

 

[lalady59]

I'm sure you know by now but I just went through my FIRST Laying season and tho i probably didn't collect the FIRST of my peahen's eggs, I did incubate the first ones I found and those did hatch !!!
I felt like they wouldn't bc often the first from a chicken aren't fertile. My 2 hens were 2 this season, and that's not a SOLID 2 meaning she was a June 2015 hatchling herself and I got the first egg in April. Also my male (4yrs) and she had never mated that I witnessed.

I forgot to mention MY OWN QUESTION. My peafowl free range and my question is how many eggs on average does a hen lay during one season? Bc mine free range I was lucky to find any. Between both hens I collected only 7 and hatched only 3.

 

[lalady59]

Also I read in a group that the hens take a break between clutches.
Thank you

Thanks so much, my beleif always is anything is a price of what someone wants to pay for

So eggs not being bred..aren't doing me any good just going in the trash right?

Sooooo, I guess your saying..sell them eh?
Hehehehe