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Your llamas and poultry should get along well together. When my chickens are free ranging, they like to get beneath the llamas when they eat, to glean and eat the grain that falls from the llama's mouth as it scarfs its food.
I have hear from a number of people who have llamas and poultry that they get along well. So how many llamas do you have? If you do not mind me asking?
I just purchased two llama males. Both are pretty young and will need to be gelded soon, but they are so sweet and already halter/lead rope trained. I love them already.
For those of you who did not hear at POOPS we have been having trouble with our neighbor's dogs getting in our yard and killing our chickens. They also taught my dog that chickens are food so I had to find her a new home (one without birds but a lot of land). Trying to find a solution to stop the dogs from getting into the yard, I was researching guard animals and llamas came up in the search. My thought is llamas do not eat chickens and they will protect the property from dogs, coyotes, etc. The other added benefits are they will keep the placed mowed, their poop makes great fertilizer and the hair when they are sheared can be used to make some wonderful things.
Plus they like to go for walks and you can put packs on them to carry your stuff while walking. Not to mention they are so cute.
Ok I will quit talking about llamas, except to mention that my peacock is quite taken by them and follows them around everywhere.
We have two female llamas in OKC and a "family of 4" on our property in Eastern Oklahoma. We got them to be guards for the goats and if you do have a family dog, it is important to allow the llamas to see the dog through a fence for a week or two to get the idea that YOUR dog is part of the family. Llamas protect family from predators.
It is good that your llamas are halter broken. Some of mine were halter broken when we got them, but once the halter was off for a few months, we haven't been able to get it back on them. The crias have never had a halter on, so it will be a challenge to teach them. (another project for a later time) What I like most about llamas is that they have a community poo pile and will all use the same area for a month or more and then move on and make another community area. It makes their poo, which can be applied directly to the garden without composting, very easy to gather.
What kind of peacock do you have? We have black shouldered peacocks, but they don't free range. I don't know if my husband (or the peacocks) would survive if the peacocks were to roost on his truck, so they are in their own huge, very tall pen.
