BABY Peachicks By Preferred Peafowl

01/01/2020

Photos sent in of David M’s birds. Yearling males displaying and the whites sure do look magical! White as snow!!

01/01/2020

Pictures from Guadalupe M. and Lynne H.

08/03/2019

One last trip to Columbia, MO and then Tulsa, OK next weekend. Let us know if you need birds! It has been a terrific year! Thank you all!

07/26/2019

Important message: if your babies had identifying leg bands, now is a good time to clip them off with finger nail clippers. If you aren’t sure just go ahead and double check!

07/13/2019

See you in Des Moines and Council Bluffs tomorrow folks!

07/09/2019

Price List! We do our best to get you the colors you want! But ALL colors are beautiful! You just can’t go wrong with Peafowl!

Hatching is winding down and color availability depends on how many of each color will hatch!

07/08/2019

Omaha AND Des Moines....you’re next! Delivering this Saturday July, 13th. I contacted everyone who has ordered. If you believe you ordered but did not hear anything from me, let me know.

If you haven’t placed an order, but would like to, it’s not too late! Get ahold of me at 816-588-1292.

-Scott

06/29/2019

Happiness is discovering something new.. Order TODAY!

06/29/2019

Columbia/Kansas City pick ups are tomorrow PLUS Shipping updates and other drop off info:

If you would like birds but haven’t sent an order, send me a message ASAP! If you’re on our way, I’ll bring extras.

Kansas I-70 delivery: I’ve talked to everyone on our list and your birds are coming Wednesday evening July 3rd! If you haven’t heard from me send me a message or call me at 816-588-1292.

Des Moines, Council Bluffs, Omaha: your birds are coming Saturday July 13th!

If you ordered birds or are interested in birds in the Springfield or Joplin, MO area shoot me a message now!

Lastly, we have had a lot of people ask about meeting in between...we will be coming from the Kansas City, MO area and are willing to make stops along the way if you are in between one of our destinations. If you have yet to order we can try to work something out!

06/26/2019

Preparation for your new birds (No it doesn’t have to be fancy!) The big THREE Food, Water, Temperature!

Food: You’ll need Game Bird Starter Feed (crumbles for babies) You can get this at almost any farm supply store but we get ours at Tractor Supply. (Double check with your tractor supply because I have heard some areas not every tractor supply had it available but they could order it. Its by Dumor and 24% protein. It’s about $17 for a 50 lb bag. It’s a little cheaper if you go to MFA.

Water: just use a 1 gallon Chick waterer that you can also get at farm store. I do not recommend using just a water bowl because they can fall in or get their feathers wet. Birds that get wet also get cold. And that’s a problem when they are supposed to maintain a warm temperature.

Heat: Have a pen big enough you can have heat on one side and a “cooler” side for them to get away from the heat lamp if they prefer. Birds standing directly under the lamp and huddled up are telling you they are too cold and you need to lower the lamp. Birds that avoid the lamp are probably too warm and you need to raise the lamp. Since they can fly at 1 week old, I use a water tank with a screen top and set my heat lamp directly on the lid. It’s about 2ft off the ground and the birds should be going back and forth eating and drinking or possibly sleeping (They sleep a lot. And sleep hard! They aren’t dead! 😆) I find that an unfinished basement with cool steady airflow is an ideal place for your brooder. Lots of people use their garage as well and that’s fine as long as temps don’t rise above 80-85 degrees in the garage. The birds need a heat lamp their first 6-8 weeks of life and the heat lamp will be about 99 degrees alone. If the garage gets above 80 then your brooder (with a heat lamp) will be much hotter! Just something to consider when you choose your brooder location. I never advise trying to brood outside. The temperatures and humidity change to rapidly from day to night time. That’s why a basement gives you a great place to have one constant temperature the whole time. Not up and down.

Flooring: we used to use pine shavings but we got tired of the dust. It’s way simpler to use a cage with a wire bottom or even simpler, if you use paper towels and change them out every couple days it’s pretty easy! Paper towels are great because they allow easy grip on the birds feet and they can’t “slip”. Avoid using really slick material like news paper. Sometimes I’ll still use newspaper but I wrinkle it up really good and they can walk on it just fine without slipping.

06/18/2019

A couple BIG UPDATES...

1) They’re starting to HATCH!
2) We have built this brand new facility just in time for hatching which we plan on housing peachicks and using as our Hatchery. If you are doing local pick ups this will most likely be the building you will pick up at.

If you are located in Columbia/New Florence, MO or the Kansas City Missouri area I should have contacted each of you already to let you know we will be delivering your birds June 29th. If you believe you ordered, but did not receive a notification, please send me a message or call me at 816-588-1292.

Good people of Kansas... I will be contacting you shortly. If I can squeeze in the trip I will deliver birds during the week or the weekend of June 6th.

Omaha, Des Moines, and Southern Missouri I will be in touch with each of you as the birds hatch. We want to bring as many birds with us as possible to allow people to choose the ones they want! Colors are usually not a problem to let you pick out aside from limited amounts of Cameo and Opal.

If you have any questions at all, send us a message or give me a call! Thank you! Hope all is well with everyone!!!

05/20/2019

Here are our local pick up locations. Also...

We Ship! If you need Shipping check back with us in late summer for availability. We are always willing to provide people from across the country with birds, but we want to make sure the weather is cool enough as well! We care about our birds!

04/15/2019

Strut your stuff!!

It’s that time of year again. Get your orders in now to have peachicks by hatching time! We will be delivering peachicks starting in June. If you send deposits be sure to include a phone number so we can let you know we got your order. Deposits are just $10 per bird and will be subtracted at pick up time!

Send to:

Preferred (or Scott Alexander)
13615 Petty Road
Kearney, MO 64060

03/29/2019

Flock, muster ostentation, cluster, lek, pulchritude, pride or bawl, no matter what a group of peacocks is called, Texas A&M University at College Station is...

03/13/2019

2019 price list is HERE!

NO day old chicks! Everything will be at least 7-14 days old, eating and drinking and monitored by an Animal Science graduate.

India Blue Peachicks: $50
Pure White, Black Shoulder, India Blue Silver Pied: $55
India Blue Pied: $60
Opal, Cameo: $75

Deposits are $10 per bird (just to prevent orders and having no shows) and can be paid through the “Shop Now” button on this page or by cash, check or Venmo. All mail can be sent to myself: Scott Alexander 13615 Petty Road Kearney, MO 64060

Thank you for your business and we look forward to providing some happiness to you this year!!! Feel free to send us a message if you need anything.

03/06/2019

Last year we sold completely out by August!! Reserve your Peachicks today by sending your Name, Phone Number and Deposit.

We accept deposits through cash, check, Venmo, or PayPal. Click “Shop Now” to go to our PayPal link or mail to:

Scott Alexander
13615 Petty Road
Kearney, MO 64060

Deposits are $10 per bird to reserve yours for time of pick up. This is simply to prevent no shows. Deposits are nonrefundable.

Secure PayPal Link (you don’t have to have paypal in order to send deposits)
https://paypal.me/ScottA92?locale.x=en_US

Go to paypal.me/ScottA92 and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

03/06/2019