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You are best using the fishing net, the leg hooks are designed for domestic birds- because wild type birds are more flighty and designed to escape--- hooking the leg can cause injury alot easier.
You are best using the fishing net, the leg hooks are designed for domestic birds- because wild type birds are more flighty and designed to escape--- hooking the leg can cause injury alot easier.
We got them home the beautiful things and the hen had beat the skin off her head trying to :escape" the cage she was in. so i put thm in the hoop house and let them settle this evening while feeding i went down to feed them and to bluekote her head (didn't want anything happening to my beauties. The male freaked out in a major way manage to hit the door of the house with so much force the not compleat latch flew open and both of them flew out and into the woods behind our house!!
After reading your story- (sorry for your loss)- I thought of several questions.
1. Were they in a wire cage? It is best to transport peafowl in the plastic dog crates with the wire door or cages that are low so the birds do not have room to jump upward and hit/scalp there head. With the dog crates it is darker so the birds are calmer, and you can place a towel over the door to help also.
2. Were the birds free ranged at there orginal home, and if so were they raised by the parents or brooder raised? IMO- Birds that are parent raised and free ranged, are alot more stressed & flighty when caught and placed into a transport cage- as they are not used to any comfinement or handling. Birds that were brooder raised are more used to being handled and less stressed. Didn't get me wrong- you should be able to transport either safely, but just alittle different in how.
Anyone considering buying older peafowl should consider how they were raised before you purcahse, so you can prepare accordingly. We tell our customers- that if you buy brooder raised peafowl that are over 6 months old, you need to keep them penned for about a month before letting them free range. If the birds were parent raised you should keep them penned a few weeks longer. AND the older the bird you get- the longer it should be penned before free ranging.
We use chickens to incubate and hatch peafowl. We also at times let the chicken raise the peachicks, we never have to worry about those chicks raised here flying away then.
Randy www.spectrumranch.net & www.sosranch.net
Check out our egg auctions on ebay- seller name: spectrumranch
After reading your story- (sorry for your loss)- I thought of several questions.
1. Were they in a wire cage? It is best to transport peafowl in the plastic dog crates with the wire door or cages that are low so the birds do not have room to jump upward and hit/scalp there head. With the dog crates it is darker so the birds are calmer, and you can place a towel over the door to help also.
2. Were the birds free ranged at there orginal home, and if so were they raised by the parents or brooder raised? IMO- Birds that are parent raised and free ranged, are alot more stressed & flighty when caught and placed into a transport cage- as they are not used to any comfinement or handling. Birds that were brooder raised are more used to being handled and less stressed. Didn't get me wrong- you should be able to transport either safely, but just alittle different in how.
Anyone considering buying older peafowl should consider how they were raised before you purcahse, so you can prepare accordingly. We tell our customers- that if you buy brooder raised peafowl that are over 6 months old, you need to keep them penned for about a month before letting them free range. If the birds were parent raised you should keep them penned a few weeks longer. AND the older the bird you get- the longer it should be penned before free ranging.
We use chickens to incubate and hatch peafowl. We also at times let the chicken raise the peachicks, we never have to worry about those chicks raised here flying away then.
Randy www.spectrumranch.net & www.sosranch.net
Check out our egg auctions on ebay- seller name: spectrumranch
