Dennis Michael Fett was born in 1950 in Passaic, New Jersey and resided after birth in Paterson, New Jersey until he graduated from Eastside High School, Paterson, New Jersey in 1969. Eastside High School was the subject of the movie "Lean On Me".

During High School (and also in college) Fett studied clarinet for six years with Professor Joseph Allard at the Juliard School of Music, New York City. While in high school and later in college, Fett was a Professional Musician in the New York City and New Jersey Metro area. He played in numerous professional orchestras for off-off Broadway musicals. He has been an adjudicator (judge) for woodwinds/clarinets for the Iowa High School Music Association Small Group Contest for 25+ years.

During his senior year of high school, Fett won a spot to play Semi-professional baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies triple A farm league. He played baseball for the Clifton Phillies during his senior year of High School before making a career choice of being a music educator.

Fett attended Yankton College Conservatory of Music, Yankton, South Dakota. His musical abilities earned him a 3/4 scholarship. He received his Bachelor of Music Degree in 1973. His major area of performance was Clarinet. Fett has 36 graduate hours in education from various universities throughout the USA. While being an instrumental music instructor, Fett has taken several of his instrumental music students "under his wings" by spotlighting their extraordinary musicial abilities by using his media and Television contacts to showcase them. Fett arranged for a student to meet Doc Severson in 2003 and for a student to appear on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 2005.

After college, Fett taught instrumental music & vocal music in South Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa. In 1980 he married his wife Debra Joan Buck of Minden, Iowa while he was teaching in Iowa. Together they Co-founded the Peacock Information Center in 1980 and in 1986 Fett wrote and self published the book called The Wacky World of Peafowl volume one. This book was an immediate success and sold out its first printing and went into its second and third printing when he co-wrote the second peacock book called The Wacky World of Peafowl Volume 2 in 1990. The Wacky world of peafowl books has sold 15,000 copies combined. Volume 1 is in it's seventh printing since 1986 and Volume 2 is in it's fourth printing since 1990

With the overwhelming success of The Wacky World of Peafowl volume two, Fett and this wife started the Peafowl Report, a bimonthly color newsletter in 1991. The Peafowl report is well into its 17-year and still going strong. Fett left teaching to be on the lecture circuit, speaking at schools, churches, and civic organizations about the "Wacky World of Peafowl".

Fett has a record of writing more on the subject of peafowl than anyone else in the world.

With the success of two self-published peafowl books and a successful peafowl publication, (The Peafowl Report) Fett and his wife were nominated for the Iowa Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1991 and 1992.

With all this success, Fett and Buck's work and studies have been written up in over 30 newspapers nationally, such as USA TODAY, L.A.TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, and THE NEW YORK TIMES says, "Mr. Fett has an encyclopedic knowledge of peacocks".

With Fett's and Buck's musical talents and abilities, they collaborated and wrote a peacock song called, "The Wacky Peacock". Fett wrote the music and Buck wrote the words. They were invited to be a guest on a national talk show on the Lifetime channel called "Attitudes" staring Linda Dano. in New York City in May 21, 1990.

Fett's research on peafowl led him to a major discovery on peafowl behavior. During the summer of 1997 he was granted a Fellowship from Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska to study the mating habits of peafowl. Fett's Hypothesis: Do peahens preselect peacock with larger tails? Results of this study was published in the January/February 2003 issue of the Peafowl Report.

Fett and Buck have won numerous ribbons and awards for their peafowl, ducks, and geese at several county fairs and at the Iowa State Fair.

In 1996 the Peacock Information Center launched the first and only web site dedicated to the subject of peafowl. Their Web Page http://www.peafowl.com is now visited by over 30,000 computers/persons each month.

Peafowl.com was awarded the prestigious USA TODAY HOT SITE AWARD in the February 7, 1997 edition of USA TODAY Online, a free and immensely popular news service on the World Wide Web.

Sam Vincent Meddis, Technology Editor for USA TODAY said, "Earning this designation is quite a distinction. Just as we do with top-rated movies and TV programs, we look daily for Web sites that are likely to be sure hits with readers -- sites that seek to astound and delight, inform or amuse -- by exhibiting excellence in graphics, content or both."

Dennis Fett is an award-winning photographer with photographs of his peafowl purchased by VOGUE MAGAZINE, TIME MAGAZINE, ORGANIC GARDEN, ANIMAL FAIR and many more. His photographs have also received top awards for two consecutive years at the Iowa State Fair photography contest earning him 2nd place.

Although Fett does not have a poultry science degree or formal training in poultry, his 30+ years as a music educator, along with his 28 years of first hand experience in raising peafowl, he has educated 1000's each month on peafowl. As a true educator, Fett chose to publish all his first hand knowledge on peafowl in his two books and his Peafowl Report newsletter.

His vast knowledge of peafowl and experience has him helping people all over the USA with peafowl problems. He was a paid consultant for the city of Rolling Hills Estate, California in 1992. He was commissioned to educate the community and provide a peafowl management plan so those residents could live with the wild peafowl that have been in the community since 1924.

In addition, Fett was also hired to capture a runaway peacock from the King circus in Denison, Iowa when the birds were lost after the performance.

In July of 2000, Dennis Fett, was invited to be a guest on, "You Like Like A Dog" game show on the Animal Planet channel. He was a pet expert (peacock Farmer) and the three celebrity panelists go through three rounds of play to determine who is lying about being the real peacock farmer. The show had a celebrity panel of Doris Roberts, Victoria Jackson, and Kevin Meaney.

Even with all these accomplishments, Fett has not been sitting back and resting on past works, as he & his wife released the Wacky World Of Peafowl music video on DVD in June of 2006.

This song came about 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. This funny and humorous music video tells how the couple started their life with peacocks/peafowl . In addition, Fett and and his wife also self produced and released The Wacky World Of Peafowl DVD in August of 2006. 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.

In 2007 after teaching music education for 33 years, Fett was encouraged by his wife and a former student to resurrect an old clarinet act he performed in college & at community events some 25+ years ago. Fett earned a spot to be a finalist in Iowa's Got Talent contest to perform a humorous clarinet solo called Immer Kleiner (always smaller). The solo requires Fett to start playing his clarinet all together and then gradually start taking it apart piece by piece, ending up playing only the mouthpiece.

After his successful performance at the Iowa's Got Talent contest in April of 2007, he decided to write two additional original musical arrangments using two popular public domain songs where he disassembles his clarinet and ends up with just the mouthpiece. He also created a 30 minute clarinet novelty act demonstrating how a clarinet can be played in several unusual ways. Fett played his novelty act at a Juvenile Diabetes benefit concert, nursing homes and community events.

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.