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Peacocks, also known as peafowl, are large colorful birds that live in India and Asia. The peafowl diet consists of vegetation including seeds, fruit and insects, particularly arthropods, and small animals and reptiles, particularly snakes, even poisonous ones, which they exhaust by encouraging them to strike out in much the same way that the secretary bird does.
These peacocks live in private homes, on farms, and in zoos or wildlife refuges. 7. Peacocks were a delicacy in medieval times. Weight And Length: Male peacock weighs around four to six kilograms, while females weigh about 2.75 to four kilograms. These peacocks have a bit of a different diet than their wild cousins.

Most of the peacock farmer raise them for the purpose of producing their colorful feathers. The male Peafowl can have up to 150 brightly coloured feathers on its tail coverts. After mating, the female scrapes a shallow nest in the ground and lays between four and eight buff-colored eggs.
The length of peacocks is about six to seven feet, while the Peahens are about three to 3.5 feet long. A sign of poor nutrition in peafowl is mature peahens not laying eggs during the peafowl breeding season. In ancient times, travelers brought these animals from their native land of India to display as ornamental birds in many other countries.

These birds are often kept in captivity for religious, aesthetic or sentimental reasons for over 2,000 years. The females incubate the laid eggs, which hatch in about 28 days. Peafowl are omnivores that feed on insects, plants, and small creatures. The male peafowls tail is a strong outward signal of health and the better the peafowl's health the more tail feathers they will have.

Peacocks that live in their native habitat, in the forest for example, will probably consume snakes. Corn, wheat and other grains are a common food source for peacocks. Green peafowl differ from Indian peafowl in that the male has green and gold plumage and black wings with a sheen of blue.
They are part of the tail, but actually the feathers that cover the true tail. Green peacocks are protected wildlife animals in China while farmed Indian peacocks are considered edible. The male peafowls (called peacocks) have long, colourful feathers Female peafowls (called peahens) have shorter, brown feathers.

The peacock's head is shed by brush-like crested feathers displaying beautiful outlook. The tail length of the male Peafowl can be 4 - 5 feet. When raised in captivity, the domestic peacock are often feed a commercial bird and poultry feed. A Indian peafowl is a bird of the Phasianidae family.

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