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Peafowl



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The Ostler's love of peafowl led to a drastic career change...

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Dilly Barlow went to visit the Ostlers near Bognor Regis to find out what it was that changed a man more used to analysing death into a man devoting his retirement to caring for the living, sometimes barely living, peafowl - and a woman into an expert on the dietary requirements of the winged things.







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BBC Really Wild Zone: Peacocks
Royal Society for Protection of Birds
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