If you had the opportunity to raise peacocks would you do it? At the beginning of the year a friend of Rick's called him and said her neighbor had moved and had abandoned a peahen and her chicks.
They (the neighbors) had a pair of them and when they moved they took the male but for some reason left behind the female. I'm guessing looks had something to do with it. Rick's friend went over to check on her and found a nest of eggs and then a few weeks later they hatched.
We did not take them (otherwise you know I would be blogging the high heavens out of them) because we wanted to remain on civil terms with our own neighbors who may not relish the sound of peafowl in such close proximity. They are very noisy, you know. The peafowl – not the neighbors.
Last night I had one of those dreams that feels like you are absolutely awake and it's really happening. I dreamed I got up in the middle of the night and looked out our sliding glass door and there was a big peacock standing on the deck, looking in. I looked past him and there were a dozen more on the lawn.
I was so disappointed to wake up and find out it was just a dream. It looked positively bucolic with them out there.
Now I'm wondering if we were too hasty in turning down the peahen and her babies.
Has anyone had any experience with peacocks? Had them yourself or know someone that did?
(I can just see Rick getting very nervous at the direction this post is taking….)
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(those are the actual peafowl that were offered up. How could we have refused at all! They are so cute!)
