Welcome to the Peacock Information Center.
Serving the peafowl world since 1980.
Tonight Show
If
you missed Dennis Fett, the Clarinet Playing Peacock Farmer
from Minden, Iowa, Co-Owner of the Peacock Information
Center's appearance on the Tonight Show starring Jay
Leno on Friday 12-19-08, playing his disappearing clarinet
act, In the segment called "Does This Impress Ed Asner".
There is good news, you can read a full description
of Dennis Fett's wonderful experience on the Tonight Show
on our peafowl Blog web page.
Click here to see photos and read the
story!
Dennis Fett standing in front of the Artists' Entrance to
the studio of the Tonight Show
2nd Photo is of Dennis
Fett & Jay Leno courtesy of The NBC Tonight
Show
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View Dennis Fett's Tonight show recreation
See
Dennis Fett & Debra Buck on Attitudes talk show
Starring Linda Dano.
Click here to
view
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Below, you will learn all about the
Peacock Information Center, the history and the services we
provide. Be sure to visit our links on the left and right
side of this page. Hope to hear from you soon and visit all
of our pages often as new things are posted everyday!
In 1980, when Dennis Fett and his wife Debra J. Buck
co-founders and co-owners of the Peacock Information Center
near Minden, Iowa got married, they never had any idea what
kind of journey the next 29 years would take them. When
Deb's pet pig, Charly, suddenly died, Dennis asked her what
she wanted next and she said peacocks. The rest is history
with a record two hours and thirty-five minutes of
television airtime featuring their life and work with
peacocks/peafowl.
This amazing record of television air time started with the
debut of their first self published peacock book titled,
The Wacky World of Peafowl released in 1986. This book is
now in its 7th printing and has sold 8,000+ plus copies to
date and is still selling well today. This book became an
overnight success in 1986 because there was no information
on the subject at that time written by actual breeders.
This book was self-published long before the Internet was
up and running for the general public in 1986 and it sold
out in several months.
In 1989, Fett woke up in the middle of the night with a
musical melody in his head. After transcribing it to music
paper he asked his wife, Deb, to write the words to it.
Their musical creation, "The Wacky Peacock" gained national
attention. They were invited to be a guest on a national
talk show making their national television debut on the
Lifetime channel show called "Attitudes" starring Linda
Dano, in New York City in 1990. Fett had a Bachelor of
Music Degree and studied clarinet for six years with
Professor Joseph Allard at the Juliard School of Music, New
York City. Besides his peafowl endeavors, he is in his
eighth year teaching elementary vocal music and elementary
band in Northwest Iowa.
Soon after their national television debut, the thirst for
more information on peacocks/peafowl had the couple self
publish a second book in 1990. The Wacky World of Peafowl
Volume 2. What made this second book even more of a success
is that Fett & Buck had enough prepaid orders to pay
the printing bill before going to press. This book is now
in its 4th printing and still selling well.
In 1991, Fett & Buck started the Peafowl Report, the
first and only bimonthly publication featuring everything
peacocks/peafowl. This publication is now in its 17th year
of publishing.
In 1996, Buck & Fett created the first and only web
site on the Internet featuring peacocks/peafowl
information, Their site was given the prestigious USA TODAY
HOT Site award in 1997. Today, peafowl.com receives 6,000+
page views each week.
Much to the surprise of Fett & Buck, the subject of
peacocks/peafowl had garnished lots of attention from the
printed media getting the attention of an astounding 29
newspapers and 44 magazines worldwide featuring their work
with peafowl/peacocks such as: USA Today, New York Times,
Time Magazine, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Vogue,
Guidepost, Organic Gardening, Animal Fair and many more
! (See http://www.peafowl.com/resume.htm for a
detailed list).
The New York Times says "Dennis Fett has an encyclopedic
knowledge of peafowl." In addition, Fett and Buck were
featured in Writer's Digest Magazine as being one of the
three most successful self-published authors in the USA.
These credentials will assure that you will be provided
with the most comprehensive information anywhere!
Not to be outdone, the work of Fett & Buck was also
featured on 24 radio shows/stations all over the USA.
The colorful image of peacocks also caught the attention of
11 national/worldwide TV stations/networks and 11 local
television stations, such as: Good Morning America, NBC
Today Show, Hard Copy, Attitudes talk show, (Lifetime Cable
Talk Show) Wildlife/Human Nature (Australian worldwide
syndicated) CBS's Prime Time Pets, Real News for Kids
(syndicated kids show)
Even with this record, Fett & Buck have not been
sitting back and resting on past works, as they released
the Wacky World Of Peafowl music video on DVD in June of
2006. This funny and humorous music video tells how the
couple started their life with peacocks/peafowl featuring
the song they wrote.
In addition, Fett and Buck self produced and released The
Wacky World Of Peafowl DVD. The Wacky World Of Peafowl DVD
is a companion to their two best selling peafowl books and
Peafowl report newsletter. The DVD runs approximately 83
minutes long and gives an instructional and visual view on
raising peacocks/peafowl. It was produced, written,
directed and filmed by the couple right on their own
peacock farm in rural Minden, Iowa.
The Wacky World Of Peafowl DVD includes the following: the
peahen's egg laying process, the candling of hatching eggs,
egg hatching and a fascinating view of a peachick
developing in the egg showing the embryo moving inside the
egg, the peahen's nesting habits, a cat attacking a peahen
and her peachicks, brooder house for peachicks, types of
incubators for hatching eggs, species, the fighting
peafowl, feather production and molting feathers, watering
peafowl in summer and winter, feeding your peafowl and the
kind of feed to use, peacock and peahen sounds, peacocks
mating peahens, pens and housing size. The DVD concludes
showing how peafowl can survive winter in the snow!
If we still have your attention, the above information on
our work since 1980 will assure you that our 2 peafowl
books, The Wacky World of Peafowl, Volume 1 & 2, the
Peafowl Report newsletter, and The Wacky World of Peafowl
DVD will provide you with the most comprehensive
information on the subject of peacocks/peafowl found
anywhere!
Although Fett does not have a poultry science degree or
formal training in poultry, his 33+ years as a music
educator, along with his 29 years of first hand experience
in raising peafowl, he has educated 1000's each month on
peafowl. He did this on his web site, peafowl.com, and with
his two books, Wacky World of Peafowl, Volume 1 & 2,
The Wacky World of Peafowl DVD and his Peafowl Report
newsletter. With all of the above work on peafowl, Fett's
reasearch has him holding the record of writing &
publishing more on the subject of peacocks/peafowl than
anyone in the USA and the world.
In addition to peafowl, Fett is a Music Educator and plays
clarinet. He is also known as the Clarinet Playing Peacock
Farmer. He plays a novelty clarinet act at all his peacock
programs. This act has gained Fett national attention.
On December 19, 2008, Dennis Fett made an appearance
on the Tonight Show
starring Jay Leno playing
his disappearing clarinet act in
the comedy segment called "Does This Impress Ed
Asner". This act
requires Fett to play his clarinet all together and then
gradually disassembles his clarinet taking it
apart piece by piece, ending up playing only the
mouthpiece.
We hope to serve you soon with all your peafowl needs and
we wish you well as you enter into, The Wacky World Of
Peafowl!
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