peafowl enclosure/coop

[GreenFarmRonaldsvlei]

Hello Peafowl friends.

Our peafowls are free-range, but in the evening they sleep for 12 hours in their own room.
We have a 4x4 meter room where the peafowls also find shelter during the day, especially when it's windy or raining.
They like to stay there and enjoy the view from the window.
We have a 3-seater sofa and an armchair arranged in an L-shape for them to sleep.
They have a bowl of fresh water and some food, and the window is closed with a blind at night.
It is cleaned once a week and, of course, when it's time to litter.
This space should be for 4 peafowls: for our 2 adults and then for the 2 chicks when they're a little older.
They're currently sleeping in the house with us; it's winter here, and they're only 3 months old, without their mother.

Do peafowls have something like an internal clock? They go to sleep at exactly 6:00 p.m. (sunset) and we release them again the next morning at 6:00 a.m. Both the chicks and the adults. Yes, it's not that easy with free-range peafowls. They initially wanted to sleep somewhere else, like on the house, for example.

But our lady had a very bad experience one night. She didn't want to come down and decided to stay there. That night, the weather changed and it stormed with rain and strong winds. There was no way for me to go up to the roof and get her down. Now I stood under the house in the rain, wanting to catch her in case the wind blew her off the roof. Luckily, it didn't come to that, and the sun began to rise. After that night, she didn't want to fly up to the house roof again.
Now she waits until the man does his rounds over the roof, and then they go to sleep.
Our peacock always flies to the roof twice before going to bed. We think he wants to make sure the sun goes down. But then he comes down.

Sometimes when they want to make a fuss and don't want to go into the peacock room. We throw a little food into the room, and when they see it, they're in very quickly.

With the adults, we've noticed that the flying machine doesn't work anymore after 7 p.m. So at night, even with the light on, it's better to leave them where they are. They can't fly anymore and would fall and possibly hurt themselves if you tried to push them down. The only way is if you can grip and hold them properly, it's safe to move them at night. The chicks can fly in the house with the light on even after 7 p.m. Adults have never tried this; they fall like a stone; the flying machine doesn't work anymore.

That's our experience.
We wish you all a good day....

 

[KsKingBee]

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