How Many Peafowl?

[Amerraucana101]

HI all,

I was wandering how many peafowl can I put on one acre of land and what breed would you suggest a beginner get? I thought about peach and/or white what do you all think? I LOVE peafowl!!

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Good luck rounding up any peach

 

[mustangkid]

If you are just starting with peafowl, the Blues should be easier and cheaper to find with Black shoulder a close 2nd. As far as how many for your property, if letting them run free plan on them going to your neigbors and not staying home.

 

[Amerraucana101]

I live 2 hours from this place. http://www.leggspeafowl.com/incub.htm and they sell peachs, Is there any that that you see on this websit that would be good for a beginner? they sell so many defrent kind of pefowl.

 

[Amerraucana101]

Thank you so much I will see if I can get Blues.

 

[AugeredIn]

You can certainly get cross eyed at Brads place. What is your budget and we will help you spend it! If he had peach available I would say go for it. I think there is a long and distinguished list for those, however.

...... And no particular color/pattern is better than any other for a begginer. Pick what you like!

 

[connerhills]

Just a comment on the Peach. They are a sex linked color and not fast to reproduce ... to bred them it helps to understand how to breed with sex link genes. I have a 3/4 spalding male split to peach and 2,, 3/4 spalding females of peach color and one ( maybe 2 ) 2012 hatch peach chick. I have bred these for 6 or so years and they are peach not cameo. These are for sale as a unit, I will not seperate them .. They are not cheap like swap meet chicken roosters at fall sales . If interested call me at 417 753 7383 . Also I have charcoal male and split females to sell proven and I hatched charcoal chicks this year.. George A Conner ,,, Rogersville, Mo.

 

[Amerraucana101]

Thank you soooo much AugeredIn and connerhills for the information. I am looking to buy a pair of peafowl and i will spend anywhere from 100-300$ for a pair but i don’t think that i will be able to get peafowl this year

i need to ask my neighbors if they mind that I get peafowl and I need to see if they will let me free-range them. As well as I need to build a coop for them to live. I have a neighbor up the road that has blues so when the coop is done I may get some from her but I like the white and peaches.