If she starts laying and you do not know how to find her nest a few things can happen, if she goes to sitting and it is not a safe place a predator can get her, if she is a confirmed sitter she may sit the eggs till they rot and bust which will attract every wild critter around with the smell and you can loose her also , if she does not know her area well enough and gets scared she can fly off and never return, they learn their area on foot not from the air, it is important they cover these areas before they go to laying and or sitting because if they get spooked and take to the sky and end up far away they will not be homed in well enough to make it back home because they have not learned how to from the ground because they are busy laying and sitting a nestGerald this is the first peahen, only 2 peacocks at this point with chicken hens, no rooster. The peacocks will be 1 yrs old this July and the new peahen is at least 1 yr maybe 1.5 yrs old, we got her so the males would have a girlfriend for next year when they are old enough for breeding. We plan to get a few more peahens in the next few weeks because of course 1 female to 2 males isn't going to work in the long-run but there are no peahens for sale in our area so we have to travel an hour away to an amish auction that takes place twice a month....I'm still searching the area for someone that has peahens for sale so i can buy more than 1 at a time but it's just not happening yet...hopefully in the next few weeks we will have a few more peahens for the boys....the boys are very docile, we have cats, dogs etc and they all comingle with no issues, and they are happy to have their new girlfriend here, they have been hanging around the run all day talking to her and displaying and she has been talking back etc...it's my hope to get more hens asap and introduce them the same way, that way they are all the new kids and there isn't any that have been here for months or years that would chase the new girls away. Why should i leave her locked up during breeding season so she doesn't run off? What would make her run off during breeding season?