Thank you! Our ducks free range, and the peacocks ( if we get them) will too. So I will set up a seperate water source for the peacocks and refill it everyday. How much water does a peacock need every day?
It varies according to the season. We use two-gallon buckets in the summer and 1.5 gallon heated dog bowls in the winter. If free-ranging they will drink wherever they want but if you provide water put it at the feeding station.
Thank you for the information! Can you eat peacock eggs?
Yes, you can eat peacock eggs.
A hen will lay once a year. We’ve had a girl sit on 2 eggs and a girl sit on ~10. It depends on the hen. If you take eggs off her she will continue to lay until she gets a clutch to sit on.
A two-year-old hen will lay from four to eight eggs her first year, a three-year-old hen will lay ten to twenty eggs, at around six years of age the numbers start to decline. There are a number of factors that regulate how many eggs a peahen will lay, feed, environment, number of other hens competing for the same cock, number of birds in a pen, general health of the flock, and some say the alignment of the planets, CME's, etc. As long as you take the eggs she will lay in clutches with short breaks through the breeding season. I have had years that the egg production was poor and one year that my average of hens two to five years was 42 eggs per hen, so many laid more than the 42 average number of eggs. However, an egg laid does not equate to chicks hatched. Last year was just awful here, we only hatched 339 chicks out of 1800 eggs laid. And that is why we do not sell eggs.
