EGG - PEACHICK - JUVENILE - ADULT
Breeding season is April to September and rarely it goes to October. The peacock's show there courtship to the peahens by lifting up there tail feathers which causes to push up the colorful train. Many people think the train is the tail feathers, but if you look closely you will see sturdy brown feathers in the back of a peacock, those are the actual tail feathers.
One peacock may have as many as five peahens to breed with.
One peacock may have as many as five peahens to breed with.
This shows you the air sack
growing through incbation
Once the peacock has mated with a peahen, an egg will develop between seven to ten days. If you know that eggs are coming it would best to fill a wooden box with hay for the peahen to lay her eggs. She will have to sit on the eggs for about 28 or 29 days straight. 27 days if its hot out and 30 days if its cold out. During this time the peahen is called broody.
If you would like to see if a egg is fertile or living, you can candle it. Candling is when you put a light under an egg to see the blood veins and embryo of a chick.
Here's how to make a candler!
What you need:
Cardboard
Scissors
LED flash lite
Take the cardboard and cut a hole small enough for an egg to fit into but not to fall through. Take a 14 day old egg from under a peahen or out of a incubator. Place the fertile egg on the hole and shine the flash light under the egg. If you see blood veins or a big red dot in the middle it's fertile. Do this all quickly and place the egg back under the peahen or put it back into a incubator.
If you would like to see if a egg is fertile or living, you can candle it. Candling is when you put a light under an egg to see the blood veins and embryo of a chick.
Here's how to make a candler!
What you need:
Cardboard
Scissors
LED flash lite
Take the cardboard and cut a hole small enough for an egg to fit into but not to fall through. Take a 14 day old egg from under a peahen or out of a incubator. Place the fertile egg on the hole and shine the flash light under the egg. If you see blood veins or a big red dot in the middle it's fertile. Do this all quickly and place the egg back under the peahen or put it back into a incubator.
Here is an egg being candled
You can chose to incubate eggs by letting the female sit on them or using a incubator. Using a incubator will cost a lot of money and you could end doing every thing wrong. Using a peahen is risky and if you don't have one its a lot of money too. Our peahen would not sit on the eggs the first four days and the eggs died. Here is a VIDEO I FOUND, ABOUT HOW TO MAKE A INCUBATOR:
PEACHICKS
Before the eggs hatch you need a brooder. A brooder is a box where chicks go after they have hatched.
Here's how to make a brooder!
What you need:
250 watt heat lamp
Thermometer
Wood shavings
marbles
2 Feeders
20% protein chick starter
Sav-a-chick Electrolyte & Vitamin Additive
Plastic Storage tub
Fill the tub an inch and a half of wood shavings. Place the thermometer directly under where your going to put the heat lamp. The chicks need 99 degrees the first week and then you lower it about 2 degrees each week, so it would be best if you experiment with the lamp first. When the chicks hatch you have to let them dry. During the time their drying you must get the food, water, and heat lamp ready. Mix the packet of additive into a gallon of water and pour it into 1 of the shallow dishes. Pour the chick starter in to the other dish. Place the marbles into the water dish, this will attract the chicks and prevent them from drowning. It may help to get some mesh and cover the top of the brooder, because peachicks can fly after a few days.
Take the chicks when they'r dry and dip there beaks in the water for a second. Put some chick starter on your finger close to the chick, and it might help to make a "Peep! Peep!' sound to them.
Clean the brooder when it smells really bad and take wood shavings out of the water if it gets in. It may help to put the water on a plat form tall enough for the peachicks to drink from but not kick wood shavings in to it.
When the peachicks are a year old they'r juvenile. Peachicks that are juvenile look like an adult and are all most the size as an adult. The only differences are the colors, males don't have trains, and sexual maturity. Peachicks stay Juvenile until they'r three years old and can mate.
When the peafowls are three years of age and can mate the cycle goes over again. The peafowls may live to be fifty years old if kept by humans. In captivity they may only live to twenty.
Here's how to make a brooder!
What you need:
250 watt heat lamp
Thermometer
Wood shavings
marbles
2 Feeders
20% protein chick starter
Sav-a-chick Electrolyte & Vitamin Additive
Plastic Storage tub
Fill the tub an inch and a half of wood shavings. Place the thermometer directly under where your going to put the heat lamp. The chicks need 99 degrees the first week and then you lower it about 2 degrees each week, so it would be best if you experiment with the lamp first. When the chicks hatch you have to let them dry. During the time their drying you must get the food, water, and heat lamp ready. Mix the packet of additive into a gallon of water and pour it into 1 of the shallow dishes. Pour the chick starter in to the other dish. Place the marbles into the water dish, this will attract the chicks and prevent them from drowning. It may help to get some mesh and cover the top of the brooder, because peachicks can fly after a few days.
Take the chicks when they'r dry and dip there beaks in the water for a second. Put some chick starter on your finger close to the chick, and it might help to make a "Peep! Peep!' sound to them.
Clean the brooder when it smells really bad and take wood shavings out of the water if it gets in. It may help to put the water on a plat form tall enough for the peachicks to drink from but not kick wood shavings in to it.
When the peachicks are a year old they'r juvenile. Peachicks that are juvenile look like an adult and are all most the size as an adult. The only differences are the colors, males don't have trains, and sexual maturity. Peachicks stay Juvenile until they'r three years old and can mate.
When the peafowls are three years of age and can mate the cycle goes over again. The peafowls may live to be fifty years old if kept by humans. In captivity they may only live to twenty.