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If you have two adult males together you never know what happens. They can start to fight and if you miss the right time to separate them you can have a very bad surprise.

I never had a problem. I always used as written a wire mesh 50x50 mm mesh size. Maybe with other birds like pheasants etc. such things can happen. With peafowl I never had any problem. For me netting has more risks. The peafowl can be caught in the net which is very dangerous.

French, I used a zinc coated plain wire with a diameter of 3.5 mm. On each steel beam I went once 360° around to prevent that the tension between the different fields will be added. When you have snow on top it will give a lot of tension to the wire and when you go once around the tension...

Hello Frosty, yes I have some experiences. I don’t know how much snow you get in winter time but my aviaries were still ok when I had 20 cm snow on top. If I had that much on top I were shake it down to avoid an overload. Over the whole area I made steel crossing with 3x3 m and on all cross...

Hello kuntrygirl. my recommendation is, if ever possible prepare approx. 30 square meter (270 square feed) per bird. Then they will have plenty of space to run an if the hens will have chicks they have still some free space. Regards PeaChecker

I never started a discussion about free range or pen keeping. That free ranged birds are exposed to other risks and predators we don’t have to discuss. For me this is a discussion I would not do, because I’m confident that you can keep happy birds in both ways. The only discussion point is the...

Hello Shawn, you always write in your post so gentle. Everybody can read my post, this is a good idea and all can see that I never had anything personally against you. For my understanding I have mentioned some objective comments without any personal background. But how you were treating me in...

The sizes and numbers I took from your post. I never mentioned anything about the conditions of your birds. I just mentioned the point, that we see many pictures of peas without crest etc. and this is manly a problem of overloaded pens. I know that Indian Blue and all separated mutations are...

If you really thing that a size of 20’ x 20’ is big enough for 11 peafowl then I only can say pure birds. Why we see so many pictures of peafowl without crest and sheared feathers? The reason is the pens are too small and the peas are having boredom. They are pressed together and then they start...

I’m shocked, you all are discussing about sizes which are cruelty to animals. If you are not able to build bigger aviaries then you should give away your peafowl. The absolute aviary minimum size for one pair is 20 x 30 feed. But whenever possible it should be 900 square feed. The aviary should...

Hello Dani, during the mating season it is normal that green peafowl are doing such a parade. In the past I could observer this already many times. But it is nice to see this once in a video which was made in the nature.

Due to the bird flu it is prohibited to import peafowls form Thailand to US. You have to contact “Pfauenfreund” see here https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/736439/official-stud-book-pmi-tn-for-pavo-muticus-imperator. He has imported pure once from Thailand. He will have probable some offsprings...

I agree with you, as long as the birds are kept as pets nothing happens. But why it is so difficult to find any pure greens? Too many people sold high % spaldings as pure greens and finally everything is mixed together! If you keep them as your own pets it is not important if they are pure or...

Hello destinduck, I'm new and maybe I have to learn a lot, but I can compare pictures and your greens are looking different to any picture of wild once. It would be nice if you explain me the reason. Regards PeaChecker

Destinduck, nice to see that you have now peafowl too. I expect the train was broken during transport and catching. I studied the pictures in details and having some doubts that they are pure greens. The following issues are looking for me like high % spalding. 1. Crest length 2. The green in...

Hello Arbor, this is not so easy with protected animals, due to the whole CITES procedure. You nees somebody in Germany or other countries who has the permit to keep the birds and who will get import approval. Then you have to wait some time (I don't know exactly but I heard 6 month) and then...

Hello CG, what you want to tell us. Maybe it needs some background information, but I'm not able to follow you. Regards PeaChecker

Bases on my knowledge, it is completely prohibited to import from Thailand and no exception is possible. If somebody did it I expet he is in big trouble now. Regards PeaChecker

Beautiful, it would be nice to have such good Imperator here in US. I will try to find some money to import some of your chicks in future. Best wishes for you too PeaChecker

PD, based on what you wrote I see two problems. 1. How you will find sub type pure birds? As you wrote you don’t have that much experience in this. In Thailand many things are going on, greens form Europe are imported, mixed with Thai birds etc. and all are available. If you as an American...