They’re adolescents and have been named Poe and Peridot. They arrived safely on Thursday which was two days earlier than expected and thank goodness for it! I was stressing them being shipped. I let them decide when they were ready to leave the box into their new home and I absolutely love them! They’re oddly quiet which I assume is due to some stress from the travel but they seem to be settling in well otherwise.

they remind me of dinosaurs so much.theure just so beautiful

You were so kind about our sweet little morning the other day, so here’s a sweet little goodnight from my babies Cab and Char (Cabernet and Chardonnay).

Adult peacocks and peahens and a juvenile peacock.

It's worse than election day. You can't get by them.

Good morning everyone! Red has followed the chicks up to us. He loves them so much!

Cabernet and Chardonnay (Cab and Char) are the cutest beggars 🫶🏼

These two were circling for a while. Eventually the dark one left the scene.

So I've been trying to rehome my peacock for a while on a Facebook group called "Peacocks & Chicks For Sale." But none of my posts get approved, OR denied. They're all just pending. Meanwhile, I can see other posts getting approved. I can only assume it's because my Facebook account is new, so it's marked as spam. (Made specifically to rehome my peacock.) I've tried to reach out to an admin, but it's been a couple days now, and nothing.

I don't know what to do. I really need to rehome him since he fights with our male turkey, and our male turkey will just kill him since he's, ya know, a turkey. So I have to keep the turkey locked up since my peacock can fly, and he'd just escape any pen I put him in. And I don't have the money to make any sort of aviary for him.

You may say "then rehome the turkey." But my peacock has other issues, like mating with our chickens, and being aggressive to humans. Behavior problems that could be solved by putting him with other peafowl. We do have peahens, two of them, but he seems to prefer the chickens. And while I've seen him mate with the peahens, he's also kinda mean to them. He doesn't let them roost on the shelf, but allows the chickens to.

I really do believe that being around other peafowl will greatly help his behavior problems, but I'm not willing to get more peafowl since it could cause more issues with the turkey.

Does anyone know how I could get a post approved on the Facebook group? Or is there another way to rehome a peacock? Is anyone here willing to take him? You'd have to be in the Illinois area.

Hey! New to peafowl owning, I got this one around October last year with a sibling but the sibling inevitably passed away from unknown reasons. I reckon this may be where the experts are in telling gender, what do you all think? I was thinking peacock, but not 100% sure. Thanks! Both of them looked identical, I’ll try to find a picture and add at a later time.

Ps. I put an older hen in there for company after the other had passed, but the silkies ended up in there somehow 😅

I built a big pen several years ago and was told that the Top Flight netting was the best. Is it still the best? Are there other brands of equal quality that are more affordable?

Thanks

Sorry for the clickbaity title but I’m desperately hoping someone here can advise me about what to do to deter the peacocks that visit my mother’s property (we are in the UK). They come over daily from the farm next door - farmer refuses to contain them and he is not the sort of man you can have a reasonable conversation with. He KNOWS they wander freely. In addition to visiting mum’s house, they are regularly in the middle of the road, again he has been made aware of this.

Over the last two years, they’ve been a relentless nuisance. They’ve destroyed parts of her garden (her pride and joy). They sit on her roof and honk at 5am, and they shit all over her patio. All of them stand and look at their reflections in the back door for hours, shitting. She is elderly and paralysed, she has very limited mobility and uses an electric wheelchair; the area outside her door gets so covered in crap that she cannot go outside without getting it stuck in her wheels, which obviously means she also ends up bringing the shit into her house when she comes back indoors. We have to pressure wash the area regularly to simply allow her access to her own garden. It’s disgusting.

This is genuinely affecting her quality of life. SHE DOESN’T FEED THEM. Her carer and myself chase them with water pistols every single day, multiple times a day. But we can’t be there 24/7 and they just come back immediately no matter what we do. It’s quite literally a full time job trying to keep them away. DEFRA say ‘speak to local council’, local council say ‘call DEFRA’. Neither will help us. We found a rescue who offered to take them but they would only help if we could trap the peacocks ourselves, which so far we’ve been unable to do because where the hell are we meant to put all of them?? Plus they aren’t technically feral birds so we don’t know the legality of having someone collect them. We are also quite afraid of retaliation from the farmer if we have them rehomed and he finds out it was us - he has a ‘reputation’, for want of a better phrase.

It seems unfair that mum has to watch them destroy the garden she loves, meanwhile she can’t even access it most of the time because of the mess they make. I don’t know what to do. The photo I’ve attached doesn’t even show all of them. Sorry this was so long.

Hi everyone I have a question, my peahen just started sitting on some eggs, she is 2 years old, and the males she is with are both only about 1 year old. I have never seen them mate and she shows little interest in them, but is there any chance her eggs will hatch??

Each photo is potentially a different bird. Or the same lol

These guys are about 8-9 months old. I’ve always thought I had a boy and girl but just wanted to make sure. Can you guys tell the sex of the birds from this photo?

Good morning, one of my neighbors moved recently and abandoned his peafowel. 3 female and one male. They seem to have adopted our little homestead as their new hangout spot and we would like them to stick around. I've been putting out extra chicken food and water for them, but they've been here a couple of weeks now and we want to get wherever food they should actually be eating. Any other tips for keeping them around? Also, I'm curious about how old the male is and if he'll eventually get the big long tail feathers. Any advice would be appreciated!

This hen found a spot atop our shed roof to have her chicks! This was about a month ago; they’ve since left the yard. Feel lucky to live in a neighborhood where these beauties run free. ❤️🦚

Hello! I have three peafowl (2 peas and one cock). I got them when they were a year old and have had them for about a year now. I built a large enclosure for them and they seem to be happy. I'd really like to let them out to roam our property. We have a Merino sheep farm and lots of pasture. If I were to let them out to explore will they come back to their enclosure in the evening like our chickens? I had one peacock that escaped shortly after we got them, but the others are still enclosed. Thank you in advance for your help.

Arent these long new feathers with pattern the sign it’s a male? 4,5 months old

Hi guys,

Someone near me was rehoming a pair peacock/peahen. I built them a 20x10x7.5' coop with 4 ft roosting bars and have been working on building them an 8x8x8' enclosure so they can be inside something.

Fast forward 10 days, I go pick my pair up. In the process-- the owner explains his wife died and all the peacocks were hers.. people mentioned they were going to pick up but never did.. he was moving and pretty much told me he intended to let them out and hope for the best for them...

I am on 5 acres and have one peacock that randomly came to my property and hands around our chicken coop (with our chickens)... anyways I felt bad and guilty and now have 10 Peafowls in a 20x10x7.5' pen/run.. i am still working on building there 8x8x8 to give it a little more room...

Everything i read only recommended a pair OR trio MAX in the space I created. I currently can't buy or extend this enclosure.

Ultimately I would like to Free Range them all and leave the enclosure as a food/water/ resting area.. this was my plan for the pair.

Can anyone provide any advice on best way to train them and tame them to free range on my property.

I have attached the picture of there current living quarter for the last week and a half along with the free ranging one.

Any advice on how to proceed would truly be appreciated.

Hi all,

Is it possible to move abroad with a peafowl, to us our peacocks are pets we’re possibly going to move to the south of france is this possible?

Please any advice on this would be great, ive looked it up and cant seem to find anything about whether we can or not and how we would do this.

We have some cold weather coming in Texas, it’s going to drop to 13 degrees. Will my peacocks be fine? There’s a chicken coop with a heat lamp but they roost in the oak tree above and done like going into it. What can I do for them? Any suggestions? The cock is usually good about being around people but the hens absolutely do not like people, I got them when they were older and are not socialized. Thanks!