Gallinarium
Crowing
Guinea fowl are good alarm birds, but they'll be running for cover with the chickens. Peafowl and geese sometimes eat snakes. Geese help protect other birds from raptors if you're worried about the buzzards, though those don't usually prey on adult chickens. Ratites, (emus, rheas, and ostriches,) can help with foxes, but these aren't exactly hobby fowl. For foxes, your best bet would be to either keep them indoors, or get a reliable guard dog.We want to have a guard bird for our flock. We have brahma chicks around 5 weeks old so they can't go outside yet, we think two rosters and two pullets but we are going to get more pullets if that is the case. But we want to be prepared. We have around 3 buzzards and quite a lot of foxes in the neighbourhood, so we want them to be safe. My grandma really wants a peacock and i heard some neighbours with chickens also have them. The chickens have a big coop and they can go between the prune trees that we have so lots of insects go there. Does anyone have more ideas?