Could someone explain

[buff goose guy]

So I am really intrested in peafowl . Could someone explain them and the pros and cons of them . Thanks .

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Wow! You might want to be a little more specific - exactly what do you want to know?

 

[buff goose guy]

Like for free range ing are they okay to be around water fowl .

What do you recommend to do to be sure they don't leave if free ranged


Also if they are a good birds to have overall

 

[zazouse]

Like for free range ing are they okay to be around water fowl .

What do you recommend to do to be sure they don't leave if free ranged


Also if they are a good birds to have overall

Mine are fine with waterfowl till they hatch out babies, if the peas go to meet the newcomers and the momma jumps them for being to close the peas will group up and harass the momma and separate her from her babies, same applies to ducks, guineas, geese and chickens.

You want to make sure they do not leave your home very often if you free range , you spend a good year staying with them and teaching them where they do not belong, like any animal you can not teach them not to do something if they haven't done it, so catching them in the act is important and that means being able to stay home, i am retired and waited to be so before i purchased my first peas, i had a plan and it has worked out great for me.

I have to say that peas are good birds for me to have overall, they make me smile, gets me outta bed on those days i hurt so bad i don't want to move and i love love love to raise them up even though letting them go is hard on me.

How much property will you have for your peas?
Do you have any close visible neighbors or neighbors you can hear?
Are you close to a busy roadway?

 

[buff goose guy]

Right now my farm is 23 acres and strictly only for water fowl but with me going for my phd in 3 years I want somewhere with no neighbors and will probably move my flocks to a bigger farm of 70 or more acrs with multiple average size ponds instead of one very large one .


I've always really Liked peacocks and peafowl in general and I'm gonna be getting some


No there will be no neighbors it will probably be an old cattle ranch so I'll have fencing already up with a few trees but mostly open land .


Not even close to any paved roads , I'm putting the down payment on it in a few days or even maybe a month or two .

 

[zazouse]

Sounds like a great place, you will need to incorporate some way to protect them and their area from predators, i use dog, great Pyrenees are best for keeping things in check and i have a pit bull that kills anything that gets past the check point and is a threat to her birds, i have a herding dog to help when the peas start testing me over the driveway they are not allowed on the other side of the driveway even though it is my property and most of the time all i got to say is (ima gonna get the dog) they turn back .

 

[MinxFox]

Pros -
- There are around 225 varieties of peafowl so you have a lot of choices.
- They are pretty to look at.
- The peacock will shed 100 or more train feathers at the end of the breeding season and you can decorate your house with his beautiful train feathers or you can sell the feathers, make crafts with the feathers, etc.
- They are fun to watch and make you smile. It is really mesmerizing watching a peacock display.
- They don't seem to eat much like chickens from what I have heard. When I first got them I was worried because for big birds they don't seem to eat a ton.
- Peafowl can be tamed down to where they eat out of your hand, follow you around, etc.

Cons -
- They can be noisy. This isn't a con for me because I like the loud call of a peacock, but there are bound to be some neighbors that eventually won't appreciate the noise especially if you peacock(s) call late at night or early in the morning. They really make the most noise in the breeding season but the rest of the year they are pretty quiet. The more peacocks the louder it will be.
- If you free-range them they can be good at hiding in bushes, etc. so they can be hard to find. (at least this was my problem)
- Many people who free-range peafowl lose peahens because when they are nesting they are very vulnerable to predators and so they get killed.
- Even though peafowl are somewhat big you still have to worry about predators like raccoons killing them even if they are penned. I have lost one adult peacock and two peahens to raccoons before and they were all penned.
- Peafowl can be good at hiding illnesses so you have to watch for changes in behavior and also of course make sure you worm them several times a year.
- If they free range you have to watch out for them jumping on a car and scratching it or running out into traffic if you are near a road. A guy at my church tells me often that on his way to work there are always these free-range peacocks that get out in the road and he has to watch out for them.

That is about all I can think of at the moment.
Edit: that sounds like a great place for peafowl!

 

[buff goose guy]

Thanks I'm really excited


Also I've already picked out my colors to camouflage best in the area I'm getting Camo , Spaulding , and Silver .

I have gaurd geese and they've done an excellent job I have American buff geese that are on the critically Endagered list . So that's why I was worried about the peafowl getting along with geese

But i also do have dogs to watch the geese so I think I'm covered

 

[zazouse]

So you want camo colors so you can't find them when they go missing ?

 

[zazouse]

My peas are unpredictable unlike my geese, i got to keep my peas out of trouble the geese i never worry about them but they certainly are not guard geese, yote or bob cat could kill them nothing flat if they could get to them. that is why i have a larger pack of dogs than the coyotes have