Peacocks are hearty and easy to keep, even in cold districts. Peafowl can be quite sociable and often display their feathers right in front of you in the springtime. Many also live and breed in parks and gardens. The male peacock in the spring not only displays his gorgeous tail feathers. You can feed peacocks the same as any pheasant or game bird. The diet provided by many people includes mixed grains, game bird crumbles , and a variety of greens. The birds hardly ever become sick and many peacocks have been known to live for decades.
When raised on the game farm and are well settled, many people find that peafowl don't stray far from home. They can, of course, also be kept in covered pens if you want to make sure they don't wander away, and they live and breed well in pens. But they need to be given enough room, and many breeders also keep pheasants with them if kept in a spacious area.
Peahens are excellent mothers, but peachicks can be reared just as well in a brooder. They are among the easiest birds to raise. One thing to be careful about is to give them good shelters in the autumn and winter following their birth, as they are not fully grown before eight or ten months.
Call ducks are the most popular breed of waterfowl. They are small (about 2 1/2 lbs. or so) and thus are more easily cared for because they require much less space. They eat much less than larger forms of waterfowl. Calls feature short and deep bodies and heads which are high crowned, wide in skull, and a bill which is very short and very wide.
One common characteristic of the Call needs to be taken into consideration if noise would be a problem: the females have a loud call. Even though they have not been selected for their calling ability for many generations, they retain a tendency to be noisy when excited.
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