Hi! I saw this post on Reddit of a peafowl being raised by a chicken and thought of you! Why do I suspect this might be a bad idea? Apologies if this is something you've responded to before.
it's actually fine!
The only real downsides to that setup is that chickens are generally over being moms by around 2 months of age, and peafowl will follow mom around for the first at least year, often 2 or 3, until they start raising babies of their own. But, unlike turkeys who can get aggressive about chasing their poults away, chickens generally don't really care if their previous babies are still hanging around, they just aren't going to baby them anymore. Peafowl are generally fine with this- as long as they can see mom and hang out, they're pretty independent starting around 3 months, and as long as the hatch happened early in the year, they'll have more than enough feathers to be fine not sleeping under mom after a month or two.
The only CONCERN is parasites (chickens often carry loads of worms and coccidia and lice without showing much by way of symptoms, while that kind of load would knock a pea on its ass even as an adult, so it's easier to pass between mom and baby w/ chickens), but ANY peachick raised on the ground should be checked regularly for parasites, with a chicken or a peahen or a turkey. So that's only a concern if the owner isn't doing what they're supposed to be doing regardless of mom.
