Can I give my white peacock a bath?

[RedBrush Farm]

The new peacock I purchased Friday, had not been very well taken care of. The cage they had him in waiting for me to pick him up was under their rabbit cages. Needless to say he is a mess. I was wondering if the others were picking at his feathers because of what is ON them vs being mean to him??? Laugh at me if you want, but if he can be bathed please give me some advice

 

[chickmashnoon]

Cihckens can be bathed, so I assume you can bathe a peacock. I believe the danger comes in making sure you don't chill them, you can blow dry their feathers.
look up info on showing birds and there should be inf on bathing, far more than I know about

I guess the big question is- will he let you bathe him? Good luck!

 

[MinxFox]

I don't have experiance on bathing an adult peafowl, but earlier last year I got three white peachicks that were horribly dirty all the time! I got a bucket full of warm water and put some dawn soap (since they use that on oil spill animals) in it and I would grab a chick and plop it in the bucket carefully keeping their head out of the water. They would thrash a bit but mainly they would kinda calm down in the water. You definately should watch out for him getting cold because I didn't think about that and even though I had a heat lamp on for them one of them acted kinda cold and it took that one a while until it was dry and not shaking. What I did was I held it in a towel and dried it as best I could and held it out in the sun. With an adult especially a peacock, I would watch out for those spurrs and their nails. They can easily cut you. Sometimes you really do have to bathe them because it just takes too long for them to get in nice new feathers. Just today I saw one of the whites got some dirt on its wing...It was probably from the rain.

 

[clinton9]

Water must be warm and you can use the vucumn-cleaner for blow drying the peacock.

Hold the peacock in a towel will be ok, as a peacock will feel cold after gave the water bath, by shaky plumage.

Best is to leave the peacock to clean its plumage naturally and the dirty feathers will be replaced by clean feathers during moults.

Peafowls dust-bathing.

Cheers

Clinton.