Breeding pairs.

[DylansMom]

I thought so, I just like stories with happy endings.

He looks pretty happy to me!

 

[Jhawker]

How does your porch look nice with out peacock poop all over chairs and deck?
I love mine to free range and peek in the windows but tired of peapoo everywhere.

 

[DylansMom]

How does your porch look nice with out peacock poop all over chairs and deck?
I love mine to free range and peek in the windows but tired of peapoo everywhere.

Everybody asks me that.

You just can't see it.



I used to Free range my Peas, but we had 2 houses built right behind us, on what used to be 50 acres of pasture land. They are way too close and one has "Chicken killing" dogs so we cannot free range anymore. Some of my older birds like Poppie don't show any interest in exploring, he would much rather sun bathe on the porch, so I will let him out during the day when breeding season is over. There is a pair of glass French doors in front of him that are not in the photo, during breeding season he would be battering himself against those doors trying to kill his reflection. Hubby is very proud of his porch and patio, so after Poppie goes back to his pen for dinner I clean up all the poo. The rest are penned, unless trustworthy, then they get to range a little during the day.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

You have a pretty pens!

 

[DylansMom]

You have a pretty pens!

Thanks, they are greener now( well not right now, right now they are white!). I was surprised how much vegetation was able to grow last summer even with the birds eating it, there are very few bare spots now. This is how they looked by late August.

 

[KsKingBee]

Thanks, they are greener now( well not right now, right now they are white!). I was surprised how much vegetation was able to grow last summer even with the birds eating it, there are very few bare spots now. This is how they looked by late August.

I surprises me that you would have anything growing in the pens. How many birds per sq ft do you have in there? Do you plant in the pens or are those volunteer weeds? Those pens look to be about 20 x 20. Very nice.

 

[DylansMom]

I surprises me that you would have anything growing in the pens. How many birds per sq ft do you have in there? Do you plant in the pens or are those volunteer weeds? Those pens look to be about 20 x 20. Very nice.

They are close to 30 x 20 and those are 100% volunteer weeds. We take turns, the outside runs are attached to 2 indoor pens and the birds in those indoor pens take turns getting to use the runs, so one day there may only be 2 birds out there and the next day there could be 8 yearlings using the same one. This was an experiment to see if we could keep vegetation growing in them by making less but larger runs. The outside runs on the smaller heated barn are completely barren and they are 10 x 18, with 3 birds using each.

 

[KsKingBee]

They are close to 30 x 20 and those are 100% volunteer weeds. We take turns, the outside runs are attached to 2 indoor pens and the birds in those indoor pens take turns getting to use the runs, so one day there may only be 2 birds out there and the next day there could be 8 yearlings using the same one. This was an experiment to see if we could keep vegetation growing in them by making less but larger runs. The outside runs on the smaller heated barn are completely barren and they are 10 x 18, with 3 birds using each.

Thank you, I am trying to figure how many birds my new runs would support. 18 x 25 and 18 x 50 not counting indoor space. Legg has his at a density of 60 sq ft per bird in his breeder runs. My 450 sf run plan is to have no more than five, that's 90sf per bird so I may have some vegetation, maybe.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

I'm finally building a large aviary for show birds and yearlings, it will be 50x25 with 11 ft height, it was a greenhouse and now we are changing it put some peafowls there, but its not even half the beauty of your pens LOL, would like to plant something inside but its not easy here.

 

[DylansMom]

I'm finally building a large aviary for show birds and yearlings, it will be 50x25 with 11 ft height, it was a greenhouse and now we are changing it put some peafowls there, but its not even half the beauty of your pens LOL, would like to plant something inside but its not easy here.

Your climate is more desert-like? I wish I could take credit, but that's all mother nature your seeing. I was upset when we put these runs in, because we added fill ground this time and raised everything up, to improve drainage. I had another pen in a different area that I tore down due to poor drainage. There was such nice thick pasture grass and we had to completely cover it with soil, I was afraid the runs would remain barren. However we had a beautiful, cooler wetter summer last year and things grew like crazy. Everything except the bushes growing against the barn is new growth, those bushes are wild mulberry so they produce berries the Peas love to eat, we kept them and I will have to trim them each year to keep them from damaging the netting. Your birds will love the space in a 50x25. When it is raining and muddy here I do not let the older males with long trains go out in the pens, because I don't want their train feathers caked with mud. On those days I will let the yearlings out and open the doors in the runs so they can explore the whole 20x88 space, they love that and often get to chasing each other and jumping around.