Jane, I raised peacocks for many many years. I had whites, blues, and black shouldered. A student's father did a job for the whites, Mikie and Sissie, and left them in my large range pen for my birthday. Our school paid for one day a week one on one teaching, I did the other two days a week free out of concern. A year later, on my birthday I came home to white peas.
From: Kevin <kraney51@yahoo.com>
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 4:16 AM
Subject: [CHICKENS-101] Re: Unusual Livestock Guardians
After a speeding teen trashed my back, knees, and feet, my horses, goats, sebastopols, rouens, muscovies, peacocks, ET...and several breeds of chickens all had to be rehomed.
Cathryn rainbowsilkiesTM in Michigan
From: Kevin <kraney51@yahoo.com>
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 4:16 AM
Subject: [CHICKENS-101] Re: Unusual Livestock Guardians
HI Janet, I absolutely love peacocks. They are sooo beautiful, once when we used to live in a little village, their was a pair that used to meander into our garden in the eve & if it was a hot night & we had the living room windows open, they would anounce their arrival right under the windows & often make us jump out of our skins, lol. Then we would go & give them their bread, We loved them:) Jane & co
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, "jajeanpierre" <jajeanpierre@...> wrote:
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> This morning as I was tending to the chickens, I had the macaws out flying. In the field not 20 yards from my chicken pens and parrot aviaries were my neighbor's pair of peacocks.
>
> Unlike some of my other neighbors, I love the peacocks. They let the world know when things are not right in their world, sounding the alarm for avian predators and unusual trucks driving down the road. My parrots know to be on guard when the peacocks sound an alarm.
>
> I've never noticed the peacocks sounding an alarm for my parrots, but they are rarely near the parrots flying. Today, both parrots buzzed four feet over the heads of both peacocks. Neither peacock made a peep and continued about their business.
>
> I've been worried that my chickens will become used to my parrots flying over head and then not worry when a hawk is above. My scarlet has about a four-foot wingspan, so should be scary to a chicken, but they are not. I hope they will learn the difference. The peacocks certainly understand the difference.
>
> Janet
>
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, "jajeanpierre" <jajeanpierre@...> wrote:
>
> This morning as I was tending to the chickens, I had the macaws out flying. In the field not 20 yards from my chicken pens and parrot aviaries were my neighbor's pair of peacocks.
>
> Unlike some of my other neighbors, I love the peacocks. They let the world know when things are not right in their world, sounding the alarm for avian predators and unusual trucks driving down the road. My parrots know to be on guard when the peacocks sound an alarm.
>
> I've never noticed the peacocks sounding an alarm for my parrots, but they are rarely near the parrots flying. Today, both parrots buzzed four feet over the heads of both peacocks. Neither peacock made a peep and continued about their business.
>
> I've been worried that my chickens will become used to my parrots flying over head and then not worry when a hawk is above. My scarlet has about a four-foot wingspan, so should be scary to a chicken, but they are not. I hope they will learn the difference. The peacocks certainly understand the difference.
>
> Janet
>
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