Stupid question about peacock and EE hen

[BorderKelpie]

Ok, I was recently given a stray peacock. I also own a hen that HATES other chickens. I put them in a pen together so that neither is alone. I hate the idea of solitary confinement for any animal. I supervised them and originally, they ignored each other. Lately, I've noticed that Candy (the hen) follows Raj everywhere. They roost together, eat together, etc. Come breeding season, are they going to try to breed and is it possible to produce viable young, or should I separate them for whatever reason at that point? Is it even ethical to allow them to try to reproduce if they want to? I know, weird questions, but my mind works in misterious ways....

Thanks ya'll!

 

[deerman]

Link to chicken cross with other birds, never hear about chicken and peafowl. Know peacocks will cross with guinea hens.


http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/BRKHybrids.html

 

[DiVon80]

My neighbor used to breed peacocks and a while back this strange looking leggy chick came in to my yard. I caught it and raised it. It grew up to be a beautiful boy, he had been raised all his life w chickens. He really bonded w this lil hen they were to gether all the time every where. She was a bantam cochin. Something happened and I lost the lil hen. When he got to breeding age he eventually went to where all the other peacocks were next door and we always knew who Stitch was cause he hung out w my neighbors chickens. If they like each other let them live together.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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I was going to say the same thing, that the guinea was the only thing I have ever heard of being able to cross with peafowl

 

[BorderKelpie]

Ok, I will just let them live together, what happens between two consenting adult birds is their own business. This is the most content I have ever seen Candy. If they're happy, I'm happy. Thanks, guys!

 

[Mahonri]

Well if she gets broody and gives you some freaky looking birds, we want pics!!

 

[BorderKelpie]

You got it!

 

[jessica117]

Here is a link to a page with a picture of a peacock x chicken crossbreed standing next to it's chicken mother. I have seen this picture elsewhere on the web. It's most of the way down the page in the grouping of pics under the heading turkey - chicken hybrids.

http://www.messybeast.com/genetics/hybrid-birds.htm

Don't know if it'd work, but from what I can see in black and white (the pic is from 1929) it looks pretty cool

 

[watergoddess]

My peacocks are displaying for my peahens and my chickens. Which is really funny to watch because the chickens have no idea what's going on.

 

[starhikers]

no, they will not mate