Peacocks

[Tom Kirk]

Hello every-one (i'm a newbie!)

We have 9 hens + 1 cock (chcikens) and i was wondering how/if you could have peacocks aswell?

do you keep them the same as chickens?

Thanks
Tom Kirk

[snapdragon]

having lived close to some of the noisy devils I'd avoid 'em like the plague they just don't know when to shut up

[Stonehead]

They taste good with ginger sauce, though. I ate some at an Elizabethan themed banquet a few years back.

[frozenthunderbolt]

they are a sarden poxing nusence. the are noisey and not to put it to dellicately their shit sticks and stinks more than anything else i have come accross.

taste ok, tend to be tough (wild birds ive eaten) eat clover, fruit, grain, new veges from the garden and olives from the tree . . .

[Eigon]

We used to look after chickens (William and the Matildas - all bantams) and our bosses then got a pair of peacocks. Darius and Roxanne were pretty straightforward to look after, much like the chickens, apart from the time Roxanne took it into her head to disappear down the valley, and wouldn't come back because she'd found a bungalow with a floor to ceiling plate glass window she could admire herself in all day (we managed to get her back eventually).
The worst thing Darius ever did was when my husband was planting peas. My husband went along a whole row, carefully planting each pea - and then looked up to find Darius following him, and eating all the peas he'd just planted, one by one.

[QuakerBear]

My Granny kept them in India with their chickens and other animals. They were apparently okay, but then they had a lot of land.

[Esther.R]

A friend of ours has a peacock on her croft, he is basically a pet though. Causes a stir among the tourists in the summer when he sits on the croft house roof and opens his tail He has no girlfriends but seems happy enough displaying to her hens