Our Leap into Peafowl!

[PeepsCA]

WOW! NICE!!! Now come build me one or 2 just like it!
Congrats on your handywork, what lucky birds!!!

 

[lcw1995]

yup looks great man
maybe i can steal ur idea sometime down the road?
if ya dont mind?

 

[clinton9]

Hi AugeredIn,
You have wonderful new small pen...what that new small pen for keeping ??? chickens ??? muscovy ducks ??? parrots ???

Peacocks are very large-sized bird, with body length: 2:20 metres and are suitable for bigger pens only, NOT less than 10 metres x 6 metres mimumun.

In small pen the peafowls get bored and pluck other peafowls"s crown feathers, so peafowls living in small pen, had crown feathers missed. Plus you have to clean the floor/ground in small pen 2 times a week...peafowls cannot help leaving droppings scattered anywhere on floor/ground. Long train feathers get worn & damaged in small pen.

MinxFox had a very big peafowl pen and her peafowls are happy healthy peafowls, with crown feathers, plus healthy behavior.
She don't often clean the ground of her big peafowl pen, she prefterred to leave to Mother Nature.
MinxFox's peacocks kept their train feathers remain fresh (Never worn/damaged).

MinxFox,
Can you please send AugeredIn your photoes of your big peafowl pen ???

Clinton.

 

[jbourget]

Clinton9, it looks that this pen is very much suitable to house the peacocks the owner has. I do not think they are leaping into peafowl with dozens of birds. you might be right about them getting bored and pecking eachother crests ect but that is only if there are many pefowls...but this person has worked very hard and long on constructing such a nice aviary for thier pets, and you give them the idea they are going to have unhealthy cramped birds. That is WRONG, they will be just fine in the enclosure pictured. Granted they would do much better free ranged, as would all animals, then some do not stick around. That is JMO

 

[MinxFox]

Actually those pens are just the perfect size for breeding. They are not too narrow so the peacock can display and turn easily and I personally like the size and looks of it a lot.

The thing with a large pen like what I have is you can't have many of them unless you are fine with using up a lot of space. Sure I like my big pen but now that I am getting into breeding peafowl we are going to have to make some new pens that might not be able to be so large. I am thinking about having a rotation system or something to let the birds have access to a large pen every now and then.

Those pens look very professional I think your birds will be just fine in there because I have seen much smaller pens with peafowl inside and even then I never saw feather picking.

Have a good Christmas.

 

[millebantam]

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Sorry dude. You are wrong....again. This setup is way beyond adequate for what the owner is using it for.

 

[AugeredIn]

I actually think Clinton is referring to a brooder pen which I have also documented on this thread. It is too small for peafowl so he has a point. It is to be used to brood chickens and such. It might be used occasionally for a peafowl infirmary though.

The main aviary is exactly the same as described to me as ideal by three breeders and I am sure he is not talking about that. The aviary is intended for three breeding groups of one cock and up to three hens.

Thank you all for the kind words and anyone is free to borrow any of the ideas I used. Thats is what the forums are for. If you have any detailed questions, please feel free to ask.

 

[blackbelt]

Great post like the pen. I need to get a couple peacocks come spring. It will be a great addition.

 

[clinton9]

AugeredIn,
I'm sorry I didn't realise you were building the brood pen for mother peahens and their young peachicks.

I understand you planning to have 3 very big pens being built, but wait a min...nextdoor peacock will fight with nextdoor peacock through fence, so you need to put the screens, so next door peacock won't see next door peacock.

Remember to dig the trench in soil & bury the 1 metre strong nettings to stop animals as fox from digging under fence, to get your peafowls.

Don't forget the raccoons can climb over the fences.

Clinton.