Or does it need a companion? If so... what is the perfect breed of chicken or other poultry that would make a good companion? My grandkids and I found a wild peafowl egg inside a rabbit hole on a hike. They wanted to "save" it- there was no nest around and it was about 10" into a hole - so would not have made it. These trails back up to a huge park that has free-roaming peafowl- that is how I know what the egg is. I told them chances of it being a viable egg were slim- but I put it in my incubator anyway. Since we had no way of knowing when it was laid, or anything about it- I expected nothing. Candled Today (day 8) and there are a wonderful network of veins and an eye! We are thrilled and feel it's miraculous! but now I need to know how to raise the little fella if it makes it the full 28 days to hatch. I have hatched and brooded many chicken chicks -but have no experience with peafowl. I have read it will imprint on me- that is fine- but what about when I'm gone? I think it would be best for it to have another bird companion. I have a place for it once it moves outdoors- it will have a large netted flight aviary on the ground- and we are moving onto acreage before the Fall of this year.
Thanks in advance for any advice. This is really exciting
Thanks in advance for any advice. This is really exciting