Hi Hap,

I have read that peafowl were originally raised for food. If I remember correctly, one of the problems with raising them for food is that they don't grow as fast as other fowl, nor are they nearly as good at converting feed into meat as other fowl such as chickens.

If they were grown for food, they must not be too bad to eat. I think that they are also in the same bird family as are pheasants, and may in fact be a very large type of pheasant.

Regards,

Gandolf