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Posted on December 18, 2024 by Gail Damerow — Leave a comment

Peafowl Varieties — Which is Which?

Cackle Hatchery® offers Assorted Peafowl Chicks for sale. What you receive when you order this assortment depends on what’s available at the time. To help you determine which is which, here is a brief guide to the peafowl varieties that might be included. Color vs. Pattern Color refers to the dominant color of the peafowl. […]

Posted on July 22, 2021July 30, 2021 by Gail Damerow — Leave a comment

6 Tips for Raising Peafowl

Once you have weighed the pros and cons of keeping peafowl, and have decided the pros outweigh the cons, you are ready to embark on your peafowl-raising venture. To help you get started, here are six tips for raising peafowl. Brooding Peachicks House peachicks in a brooder until they grow enough to stay warm on […]

Posted on July 16, 2021 by Gail Damerow — 1 Comment

6 Pros and 6 Cons of Raising Peafowl

Peafowl (Pavo cristatus) are large, attractive birds that originated in India and Sri-Lanka. They are about the same size as turkeys (Meleagridis gallopavo), to which they are closely related. The term peafowl denotes the species. The male is a peacock, the female is a peahen. The babies are peachicks. Like everything in life, raising peafowl […]

Posted on October 1, 2020 by Gail Damerow — 2 Comments

Why Do We Call the Turkey a Turkey?

Wild turkeys, indigenous to the Americas, were kept by Native Americans for centuries before the arrival of Europeans. Early Spanish explorers are credited with transporting American turkeys to Europe. There the birds were selectively bred for a couple of centuries before being brought back to America by early settlers. From those birds sprang the domestic […]

Posted on August 15, 2019 by Cackle Hatchery — Leave a comment

Geese: They’re More Than Meat and Feathers

Goose flesh makes a delightful dinner entrée and the feathers can be used to make a comfortable pillow, but the eggs are yet another reason to raise geese. When we don’t need them for hatching, we use eggs from all our flock – turkey, duck, chicken, goose, guinea and occasionally pheasant. Nothing goes to waste. […]

Chicken Terms/Definitions/Phrases

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z – A – Addled A rotten or otherwise inedible egg. Or an egg in which the embryo died during early incubation. Age of lay The age at which a […]