Keeping them home!

[TomCynth]

Can anyone please help!!!! We have one peacock and two peahens. All of the animals on our farm are free range. We brought them home kept them penned for a few weeks then allowed one female to go out. After a week or so we let the other hen out. They did wonderful! Then after some time we allowed the male out. They stayed around the farm for a couple of days then off they went. Three weeks later they were caught miles and miles from our farm. We have them home again and penned in a large pen we have built for them. My question is will we ever be able to allow them to be free range and them not leave. We were very lucky this time to get them back. I love them but I hate to see them in a pen their entire lives. Can anyone help?????

Thank you

Cynthia

 

[zazouse]

Can anyone please help!!!! We have one peacock and two peahens. All of the animals on our farm are free range. We brought them home kept them penned for a few weeks then allowed one female to go out. After a week or so we let the other hen out. They did wonderful! Then after some time we allowed the male out. They stayed around the farm for a couple of days then off they went. Three weeks later they were caught miles and miles from our farm. We have them home again and penned in a large pen we have built for them. My question is will we ever be able to allow them to be free range and them not leave. We were very lucky this time to get them back. I love them but I hate to see them in a pen their entire lives. Can anyone help?????

Thank you

Cynthia

I highly do not think you will get them to stay put after what they have already shown you what they will do, hatch some wee peas from them and start fresh with babies and they will be homed in on your place.

This is a bad time of year to turn any new peas loose if they are of breeding age, they are breeding and nesting and will be the hardest time to keep up with them, i know i have over 40 here that free range.

 

[TomCynth]

The new home we built them is wonderful Three perches at different levels for them. DO you have any recommendations on nesting boxes? Or something I can do on the ground for them? When they were on their field trip the home that fostered them until we got to them had peacocks. They said they thought one of their peacocks did his best to get one of the hens preg. She had NOOOOO feathers left on her back end. So Im not sure if we may have a chance to raise some peachicks or not. Im wanting to prepare a area just incase for her to make her comfortable.

Thank you for your input!
Cynth

 

[zazouse]

Mine always make a divet in the dirt like guineas do but if they are laying up high they will creat a nest out of what ever is up there to dig in. I got a second year layer that won't stop lying on my greenhouse roof , her eggs keep rolling off and breaking , i need those pied eggs now and she will not stay off the roof

I never had a peacock make a hen bald on their backs, do you have photos of her?
Wold love to see photos of them if you have any

 

[TomCynth]

This is not a great pic but what I have right now. The kennel is not finished yet.

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[TomCynth]

 

[TomCynth]

The kennel is 12x12 with a high arch on top. Three perches are inside at different levels. Still going to close of one side, the storms come in pretty much the same way every time.

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Hello and...


Sorry to jump in here to say, although your pen looks very lovely! It may be small for three peas. Usually people say at the very least 100 square feet per bird.

Also do you have any predators in your area? If so you might think about how to predator-proof your pen.
I speak from experience when I say that creatures can get in the smallest of openings!
Here's Peggy with some very luckily friendly intruders:





It's hard to believe, but I saw skunks getting in through the openings in the chain link!

 

[TomCynth]

Thank you for jumping in. The pen is the fastest thing we could get up when we moved them back home. We will be expanding. All of our chickens free range and we have had no problem with predators ( knock on wood) for years now. We tried to free range these guys but they went in a field trip. Lol.

 

[Dany12]

... an idea ! electric fencing ;