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    please read if in the north east, missing peafowl

    Try Craigslist with pictures. I had success with this last year when one of mine escaped. I got the 1st call 3 days after I had posted. A number of people had seen him but didn't know what it was a he was a yearling and not very colored yet. In 8 days, he was over 5 miles away in the next town...
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    My yearling boys are finally hand feeding!

    We got these 2 IB boys last autumn at about 4 mos old. They were given to us and we were not really prepared so it was a chaotic few months getting a proper pen and shed built for them. For a long time, they were only comfortable with me in or around the pen. When the school year started up...
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    Ugh...kids

    I have a pair of year old peacocks and one of them was "at large" for 10 days before I got him back. We made all of the classic "newbie"mistakes and chased him around in the woods for hours that first day. I was able to catch his brother pretty easily as he is very docile. I put an ad on...
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    Do young peacocks like toys?

    I have a pair of IB peacocks that will be a year old this summer. I noticed that they will pick up sticks, feathers and anything else that they can find in their pen and flip them around....almost as if they are playing with them. These are my first peafowl and I am learning as I go. My...
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    10 mos old male missing crown feathers

    I got my first peafowl last Fall; two male IB's. They are very bonded and seem to get along just fine but they emerged from their shed one morning a couple of weeks ago and one of them was missing all of his crown feathers (the ones on top of his head if I am using the wrong terminology!). I...
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    Meet Mr P - pic heavy

    Mine are 10 months old....can't wait until they are this color! Beautiful pictures!!
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    Funny story

    I had a standard poodle years ago that would find and carry around baby birds in her mouth without harming them one bit. I would ask her to release it and she would gently put them on the ground. Those retriever types have such a soft mouth!
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    New thoughts on catching free range peacocks?

    I just went through this with a 10 month old male. Both of mine are skittish and don't allow us to get too close esp. my husband. We made the mistake of chasing him around for a couple of hours when he first got out and he really took off. I put an ad in Craigslist and I was contacted...
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    10 month old male escapee

    Good news!! I posted an ad on Craigslist and he was spotted by someone in the next town abot 4 miles away. He was hanging around on their back deck looking at himself in the glass door and eating bird food on the ground below their feeder. He seems to be fine; I was able to snag him with a...
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    10 month old male escapee

    My two were very bonded and the remaining one was honking at day break for a day or two but has, seemingly, given up. I live in a rural/suburban area where the houses are 1/2 acre apart with conservation land around them and two large ponds on either side of the main road. In hindsight, I...
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    10 month old male escapee

    Thanks!! We got the two of them as 3 mos old babies in October and they have been penned up until now. My husband lets them out into the yard (their pen is inside a chained link yard for our dog) for short periods if it is sunny out etc.. ....maybe 6 or 7 times since October and they had always...
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    10 month old male escapee

    I have two 10 mos old males and they both escaped Easter Sunday. I was able to catch the more docile of the 2 but the other is still at large. Our area is wooded properties alongside a large pond. We chased him around for 2 hours that day to no avail. My question is this: how far will he wander...
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    Midnight Black Shoulder White Eye Pics

    What a handsome fellow!
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    Young Peafowl

    My peachicks are about 6 months old also. We got them in October. My husband built them a shed with a fenced enclosure and they started out running in and out of the shed all day as if the open door was a novelty. They spend about 25% of daylight hours outside of the shed now but that may be...
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    Two boy chicks......will this work?

    No, I don't have other birds. And I wasn't intending to get involved with breeding any (yet). I just hope that they will be happy as a pair of bachelor guys!
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