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Keeping male peachicks together

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Washy

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Date Posted: 06:36:25 09/30/08 Tue

After much research on the web I am about to buy several pea chicks tomorrow (South of France). I am on a steep learning curve and have found your message board very informative.
My question is should I buy two pea hens and just one peacock, or should I get more males? I am an experienced chicken owner and as we have lots of space my 3 cockerels tend to avoid each other and rarely fight, in fact one shares the coop with the main man and his ladies. So will the peafowl be the same.
Thanks for any replies, as I am a newby I ay be able to bury some of the spam with lots of questions.
Washy

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Re: Keeping male peachicks together

Author:
D C T --friendly poultry orthopedist
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Date Posted: 09:26:49 09/30/08 Tue

I keep my peafowls in "secure pens" because here in
Georgia USA there are plenty of varmints (predators)
wanting to eat poultry at my expense. One adult peacock
per pen is best. If you are going to "free range" then the
picked on bird should be able to escape from persecution
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yes, this website is plagued with some "varmints"
spamming us with non poultry topics.

[> [> Subject: Re: Keeping male peachicks together

Author:
Washy
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Date Posted: 13:05:05 09/30/08 Tue

Thanks DCT.

I have plenty of space so I am considering free ranging, but I know I have to keep them in for a good while to get used to me and the place. Tomorrow I will put them in an ark itself inside an enclosure while I check them out for bugs, etc. and we finish off the netted polytunnel and their roost. I am not trying to save money by free ranging as we have had outbreaks of bird flu in France and when that happens all birds have to be penned and the pens not only netted by covered with tarpaulins, I just love all my animals to be free as much as possible. I am used to chickens on my lap and llamas looking in the windows.
Thanks again and I am sure I will have more questions.

I love the word varmint......!!
Washy

>I keep my peafowls in "secure pens" because here in
>Georgia USA there are plenty of varmints (predators)
>wanting to eat poultry at my expense. One adult peacock
>per pen is best. If you are going to "free range" then
>the
>picked on bird should be able to escape from
>persecution
>===========
>yes, this website is plagued with some "varmints"
>spamming us with non poultry topics.

[> [> Subject: Re: Keeping male peachicks together

Author:
Linda Feaster (peaceful)
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Date Posted: 12:03:53 12/18/08 Thu

>I keep my peafowls in "secure pens" because here in
>Georgia USA there are plenty of varmints (predators)
>wanting to eat poultry at my expense. One adult peacock
>per pen is best. If you are going to "free range" then
>the
>picked on bird should be able to escape from
>persecution
>===========
>yes, this website is plagued with some "varmints"
>spamming us with non poultry topics.
I am curious how you keep you peacocks from wandering away.
I have tried keeping them in enclosed for a time 2 months and introduced a female , I have other birds and chickens but they seem to wander down the stream to neighbors who have other peacocks.
Should I continue to herd them home or will they come back on their own?

[> Subject: Re: "VARMINTS"
Author: D C T --friendly poultry orthopedist [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 08:07:26 10/01/08 Wed You are welcome OK, I just got out the dictionary and found that "varmint" is an alternate to "vermin". anyhow it is a word used by rural people for pest species of animal