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10:05 pm
Wed 16-Mar-11
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Hi All,I have a small pen approx 10mtrs x 6 mtrs got six hens no cockrels would like to put another type of bird in with them,any ideas ? Cheers Gus
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Tue 22-Sep-09
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Hi Gus, welcome to the forums. Someone will have the answer for you any minute now.
I'll try that again!
2:25 pm
Supreme Being
Thu 24-Sep-09
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Hi Gus and welcome.
I have Khaki Campbell ducks and drakes in with my hens. Apart from the rare squabble it seems to work pretty well.
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Wed 12-May-10
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Hi Gus and welcome to the forum
from experience most tame fowle will rub along with chucks ,you will get some squabbling to find out the pecking order but they will sort it out between themselvs , there are a few crossover deseases to watch out for but not comon on a small scale ,the most common one being dlackhead ,but easily treatable if found ,and you have a good size run so they should be happy enough MOS
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5:04 pm
Wed 16-Mar-11
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THANKS EVERYBODY I WAS THINKING ABOUT MAYBE A GOOSE OR BREEDING SOME PEAFOWL,DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS TYPE OF BIRD? CHEERS GUS
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Wed 30-Dec-09
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MOS said:
Hi Gus and welcome to the forum
from experience most tame fowle will rub along with chucks ,you will get some squabbling to find out the pecking order but they will sort it out between themselvs , there are a few crossover deseases to watch out for but not comon on a small scale ,the most common one being dlackhead ,but easily treatable if found ,and you have a good size run so they should be happy enough MOS
Eh, MOS, what's 'dlackhead' ?? Is this special MOS-talk? Is it in code? 
(Sorry, MOS, I don't keep chickens, so I've no idea what I or you are talking about - perhaps I'd better get back to crocheting, ay?) 
5:42 pm
Supreme Being
Thu 24-Sep-09
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Don't worry Val. I have no idea what he is talking about either and I can't even go back to crocheting.
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5:46 pm
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Wed 30-Dec-09
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Danuta, do chickens get blackheads? If so, perhaps MOS is byslexic ??
5:52 pm
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Thu 24-Sep-09
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I've got a hen WITH a black head. Does that count???
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Supreme Being
Wed 30-Dec-09
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That must be the case, then - having a black head!
But - is that a disease .........?
6:27 pm
Supreme Being
Mon 21-Sep-09
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Yes it is a disease that is quite serious in turkeys but not so serious in chickens. If they are grown together they are fine so I am told.
Hi Gus, I don't know about raising peahens but I do know that either or both the peahens/peacocks make a dickens of row that sounds like crying children. A farm used to have some and I could hear them clear over the hill, not sure how far away it was but the noise did carry a lot. 
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Thu 24-Sep-09
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Joanna, you are absolutely right. I used to have a peahen that flew in in an electrical storm and didn't leave for about three years. She was a menace. She used to go and sit on my plants in the greenhouse and she did make an awful noise at times, but not as bad as a peacock. She made quite a mess in the hen run and was a bit of a bully to the hens at times.
I did however miss her when she disappeared and often wondered what happened to her.
I still would not recommend getting some though.
By the way, my hen with the black head is a black hen.
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Mon 21-Sep-09
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I did wonder if maybe it was just the male that made the noise but suspected it wasn't.
I thought it might have been a black hen Danuta 
hehe
10:23 am
Sat 12-Aug-06
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JoannaS said:
I don't know about raising peahens but I do know that either or both the peahens/peacocks make a dickens of row that sounds like crying children. A farm used to have some and I could hear them clear over the hill, not sure how far away it was but the noise did carry a lot.
Same with Guinea Fowl. We had to ship ours out to a farmer because of the incredible din they made.
We have had ducks with our chucks too. No problem.
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