Peacock as a Daddy?

[red horse ranch]

I have a 2 year old pair of peafowl and the hen is broody for the first time on 6 eggs. I'm curious about how the males are with babies. I will keep her confined separately with the chicks when they hatch for a few weeks but I would like to know how he should react when she takes them around him for the first time. Will he hurt the chicks or help raise them?
My peacock spends a lot of time watching the chickens and guineas thru the fence when they have little ones running around and I just don't know what to expect.

 

[KsKingBee]

He will be fine with the chicks.

He might even help feed them like this guy did. I let all the hens have the last eggs of the season and let them raise them in the breeding pens. I have never seen any peacock hurt the chicks.

 

[red horse ranch]

I'm so glad to hear that. When do you let the cock in with her and the chicks? Or is he with her thru the hatching? I do have a pen that I will move her and the chicks to when she hatches. Right now she has her nest on the hay in the barn.

 

[KsKingBee]

Mine are always penned during the breeding season, well except for a few cocks and yearlings that free-range all the time.

 

[Midnightman14]

Depends on the cock bird sometimes they are fine with young ones sometimes they will kill them.

 

[red horse ranch]

I guess I'll keep mama and babies confined separately then. I don't plan on keeping any little ones but chicken math happens with peafowl too, I suppose...