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D C T --friendly poultry orthopedist
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Date Posted: 12:31:08 06/26/07 Tue
In reply to:
Johanna Ammentorp
's message, "peahen disappearence" on 11:58:30 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.
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A FEW PEAHEN FACTS OF LIFE....