peacock noises!

zazouse said:

Thank you for the kudos, i love taking pictures

Other birds will not keep them around they will roost with other kinds of birds but do their own thing once the day gets started peafowl like change , they are curios about everything like a 3 year old child.

Clipping their wing will only cripple them they will still be able to jump straight up and clear a fence easily but if a wild critter gets after them they will not be able to fly high enough to safety and will get killed.

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x2 EXACTLY!!!

DON'T CLIP wing feathers on a peafowl. They could end up eaten by a predator or hit by a car or savaged by a neighborhood dog. They need their full flight capability to stay safe.

Clipping feathers won't do anything to keep them around, but makes them very likely to get killed. If you want them to stick around, you have a couple choices. One, take your chances, turn them loose, and keep replenishing them until eventually you get enough of them around that some stay. Two, do as Zaz does, and KsKingBee does, and personally work with them every day on a very large piece of land, teaching them to stay with you. Three, build adequate flight pens and don't free range them.

If you free range, you will in all likelihood lose some birds. Some people lose all of them, others have better luck. It's always a throw of the dice. But there's no guarantee that everything will go perfectly even in pens... birds get sick, injured, etc. But on the whole, they usually stay safer in pens, once you have down the basics of feeding, housing, worming & preventative medicine, and all that every day stuff. People make choices.

I do agree with the assessment that if the birds show up at the neighbors' house, where there is a loudly barking (aggressive?) dog and not so friendly folks, chances of the birds making it home safely are substantially diminished.

Ok so I'm not going to clip their wings! I am going to wait till spring to let them out though. and they HATE dogs so I have no worry of them going near dogs! When our dog barks they run in their house and jump on their roost!

My mom said that were are going to get more peacocks! We are going to try to get a white hen and 2-3 India blues!

birdnerd99 said:

Ok so I'm not going to clip their wings! I am going to wait till spring to let them out though. and they HATE dogs so I have no worry of them going near dogs! When our dog barks they run in their house and jump on their roost!

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ummm, one more thing. If you have only males, at some point mother nature will whisper in their pea-brain ears that they need HENS... Might not be this spring/summer, might be the following year, but for sure by spring of the year they turn three.

Once they notice that they need HENS, they will either yell their fool heads off trying to attract some in (if they are safely penned), or they will do some combination of trying to call in hens and wandering around looking to see if they can find any. They will be much more likely to wander and possibly never come home.

So if you decide to free range, you definitely should get some hens, now if possible, in order to give them some months of confinement with the boys, before you start turning birds out to explore the big, bad, beckoning world.

birdnerd99 said:

My mom said that were are going to get more peacocks!

We are going to try to get a white hen and 2-3 India blues!

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Oh good! I was typing my last post when you put that up. Yes, you definitely need some hens if you plan to free range.

I just love all the info that you guys are giving me! thank you. what types do you have?