What do peafowl eat to grow up, meat or feed?

The peafowl is a bird of relatively high value in our country; it can not only be kept for viewing but also eaten, so many people raise it. But to raise peafowl, you need to understand their habits, so what do peafowl eat to grow up? Meat or feed?

1. Peafowl have omnivorous feeding habits, tolerate coarse feed, like eating green feed, and mainly eat corn, wheat, sorghum, soybeans, soybean cake and various green grasses.

2. Peafowl mainly feed on mushrooms, tender grass, leaves, termites and other insects. They usually walk around foraging, love wild fruits such as yellow raspberry and wild pear, and also eat grains and grass seeds.

3. Green peafowl have relatively fixed foraging times, mostly foraging at dawn and dusk, and rest in dense forest at noon. They are omnivorous, like eating fruits such as Pyrus pashia and yellow raspberry, and also eat grass seeds, tree seeds, rice grains and seedlings; animal foods include locusts, crickets, lepidopteran and coleopteran insects, as well as frogs, lizards and so on.‘

Feed formulas:

1. Growing peafowl

Feed formula: corn 60%, bran 8.5%, soybean cake 18%, fish meal 8%, yeast 3%, shell powder 2%, salt 0.5%. This feed is used for adult peafowl.

2. Peafowl during the laying period

Feed formula: corn 45%, soybean cake 16%, soybeans 10%, fish meal 10%, bran 8.5%, bone meal 5%, yeast 5%, salt 0.5%. This feed is used for peafowl during the laying period.

3. Peachick

Feed formula: corn 40%, soybean cake 20%, bran 6%, fish meal 14%, millet 7%, wheat 6%, minerals 2.7%, salt 0.3%, bone meal 2%, yeast 2%. The crude protein content of the diet is 22.6%, and the metabolizable energy is 11.9 MJ/kg. This feed is used for peafowl before 50 days of age.

4. Medium chick peafowl

Feed formula: corn 45%, sorghum 5%, soybean cake 18%, soybeans 6%, fish meal 8%, bone meal 4%, bran 10%, yeast 3%, salt 0.5%, shell powder 0.5%. This feed is used for medium chicks before 6 months of age.

5. Young peafowl

Feed formula: corn 38%, whole wheat flour 10%, bran 4.6%, sorghum 3%, soybean cake 21%, soybean flour 8%, fish meal 10%, yeast 3%, bone meal 1%, shell powder 1%, salt 0.4%. This feed is used for young peafowl before 22 months of age.

6. Breeding peafowl

Feed formula: corn 48%, whole wheat flour 5%, bran 5%, sorghum 2%, soybean cake 20%, soybean flour 5%, fish meal 8%, yeast 2%, bone meal 2%, shell powder 2.5%, salt 0.5%. This feed is used for breeding peafowl.

The above feeds must have additives such as multivitamins and trace elements added as appropriate.