peacock as a indoor pet

[muus]

MinxFox, although is hard to find anyone ho sels hatching eggs, we will find it.
The documentary it will be free, i'll post it in youtube and put the link in a new thread. That will be maked in 2 years, you have peafowls and you know they are birds they grow very slowly....
I did'nt think that green peafowls were larger than the blue, in photos seems otherwise.
I'm looking for eggs only, i don't want baby chicks, because they can die during the shipping...
I need to trust with the person who sells me the eggs, if it deceive me, i can't do anything but I will be very careful.
If i can't find anyone, i will make the documentary with indian blue peafowls, there is a men who i know a few years ago and is very good person, he will give me the eggs in a very rasonable price. One time, he was going to sell me a indian peacock with only 20 euros, I was hallucinated!!! I don't buy it because i haven't got any place to put it.

 

[MinxFox]

Even eggs can be hard to use. If you get the eggs locally it should be fine, but peafowl are very hard to hatch if they have been shipped. Someone once sent me six peafowl eggs all wrapped up in all sorts of padding and everything and even after all of that, none of them hatched. All of them got too shaken up in the shipping. India Blue peafowl would be cheaper to use and would probably be easier to work with.

There was a great photo on a website called Peacock Kingdom but the website isn't coming up. They had a photo of a green peacock standing next to a pied peacock and he was huge next to the blue! Mainly they have very long legs.

 

[muus]

I think i'm going to use indian peafowls. I don't want to throw away any egg, i contacted with a person who haves indian peafowls andhe want to sell me 8 euros each egg, I feltstunned, it's very expensive!!! I think my friend it will sell me many eggs from her pair of peafowls, he lives near my home, and the transport is nule.....
I think it's the better for me and for the eggs, that will not going to be shaked.
If I find anyone selling eggs of java peafowls i will buy.
Thanks

 

[muus]

A little think I forgot to tell. The documentary it will be posted in spanish but in a minimum time i will translate it to english.

 

[MinxFox]

Wow yeah I had to look up what Euros to US dollars is...That would be almost 11 dollars for each egg. That is far to expensive. I could see paying that much for several eggs, but not for one! I would do like what you are thinking and get them from your friend. They will probably give you a good deal.

Do you have an incubator? People who hatch out lots of eggs use big fancy incubators, but I use a simple Styrofoam incubator.

I use a GQF Hova-Bator incubator. It has two windows on the top of it and it comes with a thermometer. The one I have doesn't have an automatic egg turner, so I turn the eggs around 5 times a day. I used to turn them less, but so far I think turning them more helps.
Here is a photo of my incubator:


I also have an egg Candler that you use to see if the egg is developing. That could be interesting for your documentary if you got videos of the chick developing in the egg.

 

[muus]

I don't have an incubator yet, my mother is going to buy me one, I'm going to have the Janoel 12. It's automatic incubator and can have 12 eggs of chiken and 6 eggs of goose. I think it's a good incubator because it have automatic turner and themperature. I need to buy a hygrometre to know the humidity.
I only need to buy the eggs of the birds i will breed and the fabric that i will use to do the diapered harnesses for my babies. And the most important, a very good camera, I think I will buy the Go-Pro Hero 3 because I can leave it on the peacocks and see what is the perpective wich are seeing the life. This camera is very expensive, it's more than 300 euros here, i think 400 dollars in USA.
About the candler i will use to replace it a high brigh bulb, it will work too.
You have hatched anytime with this incubator? How many costs this incubator?

 

[MinxFox]

I have hatched several peafowl with my incubator. I don't do a lot of hatching because I mainly let my peahens hatch their own eggs. I have hatched around 10 from this incubator. I had to get used to using the incubator. The first time I tried incubating eggs I didn't get anything but the next time I tried I turned the eggs more and I might have changed the temperature too. It looks like it is going for around $50 dollars so 36.58 euros online but I think I might have gotten mine cheaper at the local feed store.

 

[areeb]

Oh my god!!!!
It's one of the better posts i'be seen in my live(I have seen a lot).
You tell how you care you peacock in your indoor and in your backyard, you explained very well.
I think i will get green peafowls but is very hard to find anyone ho haves here, common peafowls here in spain are a very "common", because that, I prefer having the green one. Are more beautifull in my opinion,and have a lot of elegance, the females too. I want 3 or 4 peachicks but when they grow, i'm going to have only one(a female)and sell the others to anyone who wants exotic species in her garden.
I need to have animals like that because i'm going to do a researchable work on my center, the final work in Bachillerat that it account a 10% of my final note. I've presented my work and a lot of teachers want to watch it. And the other thing because i want that peafowls is for doing a documentary. They are a lot of domesticable birds that don't have any documentary and people want to have that birds, but when anybody have them in home, they feel "too special". 
Here in spain only a few people have poultry animals like a pet, because they don't listen what the people say about that. They are people like that but the most think its nonsense... and i want to change that. They always think the dog and the cat are the only good friends of the man, but I say thats is not so. In the presentation of my work, I said that the goose is the best friend of the man, like the dog, and the majority of pultry animals are understimated and only used for eggs and met.
About the other messages: 
heather03, we wait for anyone who haves peafowls indoor
Blue crick farm, thank you for your information. I know that peafowls are excellent flyers, in a park near by my home they released a pair of peafowls. The male never was seen, but the female stayed a month and leaved the park, or anyone stole the birds(probably is the second) Here in spain you can't have animals near the public....
Thanks

You may want to consider contacting a breeder in Germany, it has many pure green peafowl breeders and that's probably your best chance
Merry Christmas!!

 

[BYC-user-174785]

I doubt they would sell eggs though.

 

[muus]

I'll try to contact with them, but if i can't find anyone, i will have indian blue peafowls.