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  1. thndrdancr

    How to Safely Catch and Treat and/or Medicate Peafowl

    Way to go, now come help do mine!!! I have fingernails so I can hold and pry beak open but have to have second person to dose. I can dose my chickens, well except my huge orps, and Cochin, but the peas it really takes two for me.
  2. thndrdancr

    How to Safely Catch and Treat and/or Medicate Peafowl

    Also if they roost in an area where its not so high, its much easier to wrap that blanket around them after they go to bed. That's how I moved my wary peacock, I had a pen with a low roost and usually just left it open and put food in so he was used to going in and out. Then when I saw him go...
  3. thndrdancr

    How to Safely Catch and Treat and/or Medicate Peafowl

    And sometimes I do this too! :). Although after a while they learn what that sheet means! :lol:
  4. thndrdancr

    How to Safely Catch and Treat and/or Medicate Peafowl

    Has anyone mentioned that stressed pea poop is NOT normal poop? Its toxic on a whole other level. And they do it every time! So yes, be prepared for scratches and throwing your clothes off and showering asap after catching said peas!
  5. thndrdancr

    How to Safely Catch and Treat and/or Medicate Peafowl

    I have a net but my birds also panic when seeing it. :( it gets everyone so riled that I am afraid they will hurt themselves. Ditto on the boys with long tails, make sue you grab the whole tail and not just a few feathers. And grab it as high up as you can. My wildest I have to trap in a...
  6. thndrdancr

    How to Safely Catch and Treat and/or Medicate Peafowl

    I usually use a big dog cage, I set in the pen or the yard, depending on if they are free range a few days ahead of needing to catch them so they become accustomed to the sight of it. Then I start putting cat food in there everyday so they get used to going in there for goodies. After a few...
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