Firehouse Farms
Hatching
Interesting that I have seen in another post that someone else's wandered off during a full moon as well. Wonder if the moon phases affect them that much?!
Should I let my peacocks roam free?
- Thread starter dracoe19
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- Aug 9, 2015
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WoW!! I'm only on 5 acres. Mine are really good!! They hang around the back mostly but I am more like 500 ft from the road. I did have two pair but I gave one male to a friend who sold hers then came down with cancer. Unfortunately he did come up missing later. My 2 females seem to lead most of the time. They hang together and they go further. When all 4 were here the other male hung with them so maybe my oldest male is just different. He was raised in a pen first 3 years and escaped me after I got about a week later. Interesting differences and I'm new here, so I want to read more. I am sorry for your loss.
Wizard Birds
Hatching
- Jul 20, 2017
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Here's how I got my white peas to stay on property (it worked for me & was easy). I got some guinea chicks which I wanted to eat bugs (read Palmetto & Ticks), brooded and raised them to 10mths, then let them from barn and kept eye on them (herded back to barn for a week until they learned to go home every night). They know the property (2.4 ac) and stay on it. This year I got a pair (different breeders to keep lines better) of white peas - male just starting train. Kept in separate pens in barn with guineas but letting guineas run daily. After a month clipped peacock wing and released from pen to hang with guineas - nobody out for a week, then let guineas back out with peacock following - they taught him the property in 2 days. Kept peahen penned another 10 days, clipped a wing and let her out. NONE have left yet (it's been 3 months). The peas actually go to barn before the guineas.
The peas trail the guineas around the property and yell when they can't find them, will also hang out with the white leghorn hens we have. Hope this helps some one.
The peas trail the guineas around the property and yell when they can't find them, will also hang out with the white leghorn hens we have. Hope this helps some one.
Clipping a peas wing is dangerous to the bird making it difficult to avoid predators.
lyndadale
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- Jan 16, 2013
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I would love to know how this turned out.
Captain Peacock
Hatching
- Mar 6, 2023
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Even with clipped wings mine flew over a 9' fence. Without clipping they were making around 50' into nearby cottonwood trees to roost.
Hi i have 2 male peacocks they been in a pen for 5yrs, i have 10 acres and would like to let them free range but im very afraid they will fly and leave, any suggestions on what can i do, so they wont leave my property or fly away? and also would they go inside their pen by themselves at night or i have to put them myself? thanksI could write all day but i am tired had a long day.
5 acres would be nothing for my to range off of but you can teach them where to stay by herding them back to the area you want every time they leave it, it takes time and lots of it and sometimes ya may have to refresh their memories but once they learn they pretty much stay where you want them or at least mine do.
We had our road paved to the farm and first thing the peas did was try to walk to the end of it , i would run litterly down the fence row and cut them off and slowly herd them back, after that i would bring my Aussie dog and have her herd them back once she learned what we were doing every time i saw them on the road i would send my Aussie girl to fetch them up and after a few time of that they have never ventured down that way again.
They are noise birds and mine will follow /chase and harass anything that does not belong here so with such small acreage they could easily follow something off your place.
I do believe the younger you can get them free ranging the better, i bought an older pair and let me tell ya they had no problem walking to the back of this 100 acres but they also learned where they could and could not go, the onces i raised up and turned loose at 4 months were very cautious and it took along time before they would range far.
People will tell you to keep one penned and the others will stay but i have not found that to be true here, they will go off and leave one penned no problem but if they get seperated free ranging they will call to each other.
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If you need to know anything just ask, i am in my second year with peas but have free ranged other birds for years so i have learned alot from them.
Only let one out at a time to begin with and always feed them in the pen. The one outside will want back in the pen at night, the next morning let one out again. Once they get used to coming back at night to eat and roost they will continue without you having to close the pen.Hi i have 2 male peacocks they been in a pen for 5yrs, i have 10 acres and would like to let them free range but im very afraid they will fly and leave, any suggestions on what can i do, so they wont leave my property or fly away? and also would they go inside their pen by themselves at night or i have to put them myself? thanks
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