Can peafowl be kept with chickens?

[casportpony]

I've never understood all this preventative stuff, is it only for certain regions?
We moved to a property with chickens and peafowl around 6 years ago and have never gave them anything.

Lots of people will do fine for many years, then all of a sudden they get blackhead and die.

 

[007Sean]

Lots of people will do fine for many years, then all of a sudden they get blackhead and die.

X2, it's a 'ticking time bomb'...not a question of 'If' but of 'when'???

 

[KsKingBee]

I've never understood all this preventative stuff, is it only for certain regions?
We moved to a property with chickens and peafowl around 6 years ago and have never gave them anything.

We tend to be lucky until we are not. One reason I have found is that pens that are used for a few years tend to lose the vegetation and the birds have closer contact with the dirt. Keeping a nice lush carpet of grass will help keep the parasites down but is still not going to keep all parasites from the birds.

 

[Midnightman14]

I've never understood all this preventative stuff, is it only for certain regions?
We moved to a property with chickens and peafowl around 6 years ago and have never gave them anything.

It's a ticking time bomb then. I would get with deworming and other preventative treatments before your birds start dropping like flies.