Girls vs Girls

[Marty1876]

Make them a big pen with a top (My folks use wire, and 2x4's to support it). Put the feeder and waterer under a little roof up against the fence. Make a tiny place you can open it to fill feeders, and add water. Otherwise, ignore them until they start laying eggs, and you get $25 an egg, then you'll be like Keep Em Coming you overbread dorks! Woo Hoo!

Of course, you need earplugs to deal with all the noise still. Once they were sexed, I'd be so rid of them. Call the 4H locally, and find out who can vent sex birds. Pay them to sex them for you, and sell of the pairs. You can still make all the food money from them this way, but only for a year.

 

[Kevin565]

You know that might work. I'm about 2 steps away from having a peafowl rug

. They are just so aggressive. However, I could really use 25 a egg.

 

[Marty1876]

It would make the most sense financially to keep them for now. Make up the peafowl fence, and leave them to their business. In the spring, steal eggs. Make the ideal nest location (you know a little hidden area, maybe a blind of old large tree branches or sids or something) near a good entrance that you stop using once you feed and water them under the little house thing. Just keep them, and once you find out how many hens/males you have, keep 2 hens/male (or if you have three hens, keep two males for insurance) and sale extra males. Then, you'll only have to deal with a few boys. When its time to get eggs (and look through fence to find nests and identify good ways in and out quickly) bring in some fake eggs for substitutes so the girls keep laying, and sell those eggs on ebay. Or, get a bator, and hatch chicks and sell them. If you get parents NPIP tested, you can ship younsters far away from you, and at better prices. Their are folks here on BYC who'd pay good money for peafowl.


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[Kevin565]

I think I could do that. I'm just so afraid I won't be able to keep them alive in winter. I've heard the greens are so much more fragile.

 

[Marty1876]

Well, my moms didn't have too much trouble, but she had blues mostly.

Living in Texas is a lot better than KS for winters. Do they have access to wind/rain protection? You might want to make something small for N and W wind, with a roof if your very concerned. Of course, our always perched up in tree's. They never seemed at all worried. The greens here at the zoo do have access to a building open only to the south, where thier food and water are also kept.

 

[Kevin565]

Yes they have access to protection from the elements. I think they will be okay but I'm just not sure.

 

[TechnoCat]

Maaaaaaaaan, KY just might be getting some rage from Hurricane Sandy. 0-0 Not the hurricane itself, but what's left over. -_- ...

 

[Kevin565]

Hope you're safe TC!

 

[Kevin565]

I'm gonna go grab something to eat then start feeding the animals. I'll be back later

 

[TechnoCat]

Thank you, me too. 0-0
It's already raining. 0-0