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Subject: peahen disappearence Author: Johanna Ammentorp (worried) [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 11:58:30 06/26/07 Tue Hello, I have 1 peacock and 2 peahens. The peacock is 2 1/2 and the hens are 2 years old. I have two questions. I thought that they did not breed until 3 years. One of the hens is sitting up in my hay loft on what I think are mostly chicken eggs. Maybe some of her own? My other female seems to have disappeared. She was here the other day in the morning and gone in the afternoon. No sign of any animal killing her, which would be odd during the day. Could she be nesting? Would she stay gone for a month? Johanna [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: peahen disappearence Author: Peafarmer [Edit] Date Posted: 12:17:47 06/26/07 Tue Two year olds sometimes will lay. A month is about the right amount of time. To find out what she is sitting on - look. She may not like it, but that;s the only way to tell. If she is sitting on pea eggs and chicken eggs you might want to remove the chicken eggs. They will hatch first and she will leave the nest with them - the pea eggs will die.

[> Subject: A FEW PEAHEN FACTS OF LIFE.... Author: D C T --friendly poultry orthopedist [Edit] Date Posted: 12:31:08 06/26/07 Tue The very first peahen that I ever had laid twenty nice eggs when she was two years old and from those I hatched and raised thirteen peachicks. She was with a three year old peacock but I have had some peacocks that did become fathers at age two. In a warm climate the average size peafowl egg hatches in TWENTY SIX days. People living in chilly climate persist in saying that it takes TWENTY EIGHT days and those are the people that write the books. But if a peahen is trying to hatch infertile eggs she will stay there either forever or until a rotten egg bursts or until her keeper removes those eggs. My peafowls are in secure pens. Free range peahens will hide out in the bushes to lay and incubate their eggs. If the owner can not find her the bobcats, coyotes, owls, or other predators can easily find her eating the peahen for the main course and the eggs for dessert.

[> Subject: Re: peahen disappearence Author: DMFarms [Edit] Date Posted: 20:13:29 06/26/07 Tue Two year old peahen will normaly all way lay I have never had one that did not except java hens they normaly don't lay till 3 years old. One year old hen will sometime lay we have hatch chicks out of one year old hen with mature males. I have a yearling pen and there 4 or 5 hens laying in there but no mature male. Your hen is probably setting on eggs and will show up with babys if something don't get her.

[> Subject: Re: peahen disappearence Author: deerman [Edit] Date Posted: 09:05:31 08/08/07 Wed >Hello, I have 1 peacock and 2 peahens. The peacock is >2 1/2 and the hens are 2 years old. I have two >questions. I thought that they did not breed until 3 >years. One of the hens is sitting up in my hay loft >on what I think are mostly chicken eggs. Maybe some >of her own? My other female seems to have >disappeared. She was here the other day in the >morning and gone in the afternoon. No sign of any >animal killing her, which would be odd during the day. > Could she be nesting? Would she stay gone for a >month? > >Johanna My 2yr old hens lay also,and a few of my early hatch yearling lay, I keep 2 yr old males with my yearling hens just in case. Nice to hatch a few,than none of their eggs. 2Yrs old for the india blues,and 3yrs for the greens. Did you find the hen?