GREEN PEAFOWL

[Dany12]

This is the first egg ... she should lay yesterday ... and then nothing!
It's a bit like IB peahen of 1 year old ... trying ... laying! ... a game !
.... imitating mom !

 

[Pfauenfreund]

This is the first egg ... she should lay yesterday ... and then nothing!
It's a bit like IB peahen of 1 year old ... trying ... laying! ... a game !
.... imitating mom !

The age has nothing to say. I have 4 year old hens which sometimes are not laying in the two days frequency. Sometimes they are laying only every 3rd or 4th day. You should prepare some nesting places where the hens can hide for laying and breeding, then normally you will not have the problem that eggs will be laid openly somewhere in the aviary. This is always bearing the risk that they will start egg eating.

Yesterday my two year old hen were laying the first egg and she were using direct one of the prepared nesting and laying places. I still have not found the perfect design for natural breeding. It seems that the imported hens are very sensitive about the breeding place. Every year I getting a little bit closer and I hope next year I will have found the perfect solution that the most of the hens will breed by themselves.

I hope next week I will get the first natural breed chicks for this year.

 

[MinxFox]

I trust the new methods and the science and do it with DNA testing. This is working up to now for 100%. It is nice to know the sex when they are two weeks old. Not every new thing is better than the traditional way but some.

I keep forgetting about DNA sexing. I guess I would pay Josh to test a few of the peachicks? I don't know I don't want to put him through too much hassle I am happy he is letting us buy green peachicks because I always thought he was only willing to sell more common varieties as peachicks and not green peafowl.

Yesterday my two year old hen were laying the first egg and she were using direct one of the prepared nesting and laying places. I still have not found the perfect design for natural breeding. It seems that the imported hens are very sensitive about the breeding place. Every year I getting a little bit closer and I hope next year I will have found the perfect solution that the most of the hens will breed by themselves.

I hope next week I will get the first natural breed chicks for this year.

Do you have a really shaded area in your aviary? My peahens have nested in the cast iron plant (Aspidistra Elatior). It does best in full shade and it forms thick clumps which are great cover for the peahens. I don't know if the green peahens would consider it, but I figure the more natural looking a nesting spot the better for them.




Good luck I hope you can get natural chicks!