Hi, My name is Craig and I am one of the directors of Hillview Animal park in Alloa.

Thank you for getting this far and reading our story on what we want to achieve for some of the male peacocks at Pittencrief Park.

We currently have 2 peacocks that came from Pittencrieff Park, and we are looking at building a HUGE brand new enclosure to be able to house multiple boys that need their forever homes.

The Peacock team at Pittencrieff do a fantastic job with the peafowl, and understandably, they need to produce a few chicks every year to be able to sustain their numbers, but also to help people engage and grow a passion for such wonderful birds.

However, in a breeding set up, too many males is not smooth sailing and aggression increases.

Holding an all male flock away from their breeding set up hugely reduces any aggression because they will not have any females nearby to impress and fight over!

So we are looking to raise £1500 to build a purpose built peacock enclosure which will be a huge netted over aviary with high vantage points for them to roost and overlook the countryside, areas to forage, a nice indoor/sheltered area, all at the same time as making this a walk in interactive enclosure for our visitors to be able to safely enter the enclosure and be able to feed the boys, with stand off barriers to make sure the birds welfare is never compromised. We hope this type of set up will spark a passion for this fantastic species.

We are going to be making up a big sponsorship board on the front of the enclosure.

The cost of each post for the structure is about £25, so for anyone donating £25 or more, this will pay for 1 post and we will add your name to the sponsorship board on the enclosure on completion.

Pittencrieff Peacocks currently have some males that need their forever homes, so we are going to start this project as soon as we have the funds to do so.

Any donation is a big help and a step towards our goal, so thank you!

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