Rocky64
Chirping
- Jan 25, 2015
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Thanks for the info.Some people house peafowl with chickens and some don't. I don't have chickens so I don't have to worry about it.
Chickens are hardier to disease, so they can be carriers of something and you won't know it but once you put the peafowl in the same pen with them, the peafowl could catch it and get sick. It is for this reason that some people never keep peafowl in a pen with chickens, or even in a pen formerly used by chickens.
On the other hand, there are some people that keep them penned together without any issues. I bought a few peafowl from a guy who would put chickens in with his peafowl. I know of a large peafowl breeder that likes to put 1 chicken in some of the peafowl pens to help clean the pen of extra food that the peafowl don't eat.
I think if all of the birds are on a regular worming schedule that should help prevent issues. Like once you get your new peafowl worm them right away.
Like I said I don't have chickens, but from being on this site for a while and visiting other peafowl breeders, I have noted that some NEVER keep the two birds together, while others keep them together without issue and without worry. At the same time I have seen people lose a lot of their peafowl very quickly from things like blackhead which in some of the cases I think it was given to them by the chickens, but I can't be 100% sure on that.