How do peacocks nest?

Answer 1

The female peacock/peafowl, known as a peahen, will lay random "decoy eggs" around at first, then finds somewhere she can hide the eggs she wants to brood, such as leaves or even just dirt. It's not even really a nest, just a depression scraped in the ground and lined with grass. The pea hen lays eggs once every two days until she has about eight eggs or so. She broods for 28 days, leaving the nest only once per day, and then you get a whole bunch of little peachicks!

Answer 2

A peacock is a male bird, so it cannot lay eggs. The female equivalent, peahen, lays the eggs.

Peahens lay their eggs in a nest on the ground, rather than perching in trees. They tend to build the nests under bushes, in a depression in the ground which has been lined with grass.

Answer 3

No they do not have nests. They lay their eggs in a hole two feet deep in the ground and the baby peacocks have to dig their way out of the hole when they hatch. The baby peacocks are then on their own for the rest of their life.

You may have the peafowl confused with the Australian Brush Turkey

I raise peafowl they area member of the pheasant family as are chickens and turkeys. The wild peahen (female peafowl) the male is the peacock lays her eggs in a shallow nest scraped into a pile of leaves or forest debris where she lays about 8 eggs or so. She sits on them for 28 days and they hatch little chicks much like chicken chicks called peachicks and they follow her about as she finds small bugs and seeds for them to eat just like a mother chicken and chicks.

The Australian brush turkey belongs to the family of birds known as megapodes. Megapodes are found in the East Indies, Australasia and Polynesia. They construct mounds of vegetation to incubate their eggs in.

Using vegetation gathered from the forest floor around them, male brush turkeys build a large and distinctive incubation mound, which can be up to 4 m wide and up to 2 m high. A female will then lay between 18 and 24 white eggs in the mound, with intervals of two to three days between the laying of each egg.

As the vegetation in the mound decomposes, it gives off heat which warms the eggs. The optimum incubation temperature is between 33°C and 35°C, and the male brush turkey maintains this temperature by removing and adding layers to the mound. Temperature regulation is the only assistance the parents provide to their offspring.

The young brush turkeys hatch after about seven weeks, fully feathered and able to run. They dig their way through the layers of the mound and into the open air.

Answer 4

Yes, their nests are usually on the ground and are of a loose structure.