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HOW TO CARE FOR PEACOCK CHICKS

🌷Raising peafowl chicks is not dissimilar to raising chickens. If you have the peahen, she’ll take care of her brood; all you really need to do is provide suitable food and keep the housing clean.

➖ If you decide to raise the chicks yourself, you have more work to do, but the birds will bond more strongly with you. 😂

Housing 🏠

➖Basic housing consists of a sheltered house attached to a large pen. While the birds remain small, a chicken coop and run would do but they’ll need more-spacious accommodation as they grow.

➖Eventually, you can allow them to free-range, provided your neighbors don’t object.

➖ Mature peafowl are large and aggressive enough that most wild carnivores won’t consider them as snacks.

➖ Keep the peafowl in a secure enclosure until they are at least 3 or 4 months old. The enclosure has two purposes: to protect them from predators while they are small and to ensure they have a good idea of their home range.

Heating 🔥

➖Keep the chicks in a brooder to start with if they are very young — less than a month old. Despite the size differences, a broody hen could hatch peafowl eggs and raise the chicks if this option is available.

➖Install a heater in the housing for older chicks.

➖ Without their mother, they need another source of warmth; even adults need extra heat in winter.

Diet

➖Provide a shallow bowl or saucer for food. Peafowl chicks get assistance from their mother to start with, without it they’re not great at finding and taking food.

➖ Ensure the bowl is shallow and low enough that the chicks don’t have to stretch or hop to access the food. Don’t forget a waterer.
Feed the chicks high-protein game bird starter, preferably one specifically for peafowl, until they are about 3 months old, supplementing with green, leafy vegetables such as cabbage, dark lettuce and spinach.

➖After that, gradually change their diet to an adult one of pellets.

➖Don’t feed your pets anything too fatty or salty. Peafowl are omnivores; they like all the treats chickens do, including dog food, fruit, healthy table scraps and worms from the garden. The diet should consist primarily of pellets.

Care

➖Shovel droppings from the housing daily; go for a full clean once a week.

➖Bird waste is rich in nutrients and safe for home composting, so use it in your garden.

➖Spend as much time as you can handling the chicks if you want pet peafowl instead of semi-wild birds.

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Considerations

➖You may need to worm peafowl chicks or deal with other parasites, though these are more of a problem for large flocks with little space.

➖ Consult a vet who specializes in game birds and/or poultry for advice.

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➖If you want only peahens or just one peacock and a couple of peahens, bear in mind that small chicks are literally impossible to sex yourself.

➖Peafowl chicks of less than a month old can be sexed only via a genetic test carried out by a vet — they can’t be sexed by checking the vents like other poultry because the organs are too deep inside. Older ones show differences in plumage.

Warnings

➖Peacocks are extremely noisy, and not in a melodious way. If your neighbors wouldn’t tolerate a rooster, they certainly won’t appreciate a peacock.

➖ Peahens are a little quieter, but they can still be pretty vocal. Before rushing to adopt peafowl chicks, ensure that your neighbors won’t mind and you are not breaking any local regulations.

➖These birds are large, and they live for a long time — at least 20 years, sometimes twice that — making them a long-term commitment.

➖ They’re unsuitable if you don’t have plenty of space. They need either an enormous enclosed and covered area or to be free-range, which again involves checking with your neighbors. Not everybody would be delighted to find a peacock rooting through their prize flowers.

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