Damned noisy birds, that is for sure!
Them and guineas are good alarm systems, if you can stand them.
I kept peafowl for about 10 years. It was an interesting, pleasurable, and educational experience. I decided not to replenish the flock when the last one died. At the time I had no close neighbors, and the closest had approved my endeavor.
They are a lot of work in Wisconsin because they need shelter and a heated barn in the winter. I was never able to hatch their eggs, but I used a lot of their eggs in baking. You couldn’t tell the diffence in taste from a chicken egg, but they made hise rise cakes and breads because they are so much bigger — about 2 1/2 the size of a large egg from the grocery store.
They can discern the diffrence between the sound of your car and a stranger’s car and really set up a fuss when a stranger comes on the property. Their cry sounds like “rape” to the uninitiated.
I kept peafowl for about 10 years. It was an interesting, pleasurable, and educational experience. I decided not to replenish the flock when the last one died. At the time I had no close neighbors, and the closest had approved my endeavor.
They are a lot of work in Wisconsin because they need shelter and a heated barn in the winter. I was never able to hatch their eggs, but I used a lot of their eggs in baking. You couldn’t tell the diffence in taste from a chicken egg, but they made hise rise cakes and breads because they are so much bigger — about 2 1/2 the size of a large egg from the grocery store.
They can discern the diffrence between the sound of your car and a stranger’s car and really set up a fuss when a stranger comes on the property. Their cry sounds like “rape” to the uninitiated.