Embarassed at your peas?

[frenchblackcopper]

How many here has been embarassed by your peas behavior? Not all of you have a "Thang" in your flock to relate to as we have here,consider yourself all very lucky. But this is not about that "twink" it's all my breeders acting crazy here last Sunday.
Had a friend come here on Sunday and he knew we had grown large in peafowl but had not seen Pea Palace nor any of the breeding birds. So I offered him a view inside of the Palace to see everyone. Everything was fine until he turned and started to walk down the walkway between the pens. The honking started,hens started flying around,and the males all did the same. You would think a bobcat was inside trying to get a meal!
I guess I never realized my group might,,,,,,just might recognize me. Or tolerate me? Or like me? After he left a few hours later I had to feed and water them and it was like nothing happened. Roadtrip was displaying inside his pen and I actually had to move his train to get him to move to fill the feedbowl. Majik,my Midnight male flew off the perch to the ground as he normally does and he too needed coaxed out of my way.
My wife had no issues with them while I went down south a few weeks ago and all she has done is maybe once a week help with chores just to look at the males.I guess since we don't make pets out of them here I took their calm demeanor for granted. But I never expected such a huge change in how they react to strangers. Anyone else notice this?

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Of course they like you! And clearly they feel completely at ease when you are around. That's a good thing!

But...
I really stopped in here to say how relieved I am that this didn't turn out to be some slanderous story about the Thang.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

I have had this happen with my peafowl. My cousins came over and one of them wanted to take pictures of our birds. They were tolerating that, but the spalding got scared when a little kid ran by the pen and he went flying like crazy and seemed like he would not touch the snow. He got to a tree stump and just stook there for a while honking. Then in the next pen my white peacock just came flying out of the shed and went straight into the netting. He was a free ranger so I do not blame him! I definitely notice that with my ducks. They can really tell people apart.

 

[Pfauenfreund]

This is an absolute normal thing! You as a breeder should not forget, very often, when somebody is visiting you, you go in and catch some birds. This combination when a stranger is in your facilities and you are catching birds they are linking together. In my facilities it is same, they are very tame, but as soon as they hear the sound of a strange voice they are going crazy.

Here an interesting story. In December 2011 I visited Fritz in Thailand to pick up my first batch of peafowl. I stayed there three days and everything was smooth. At the last day Fritz were catching the three offsprings of one hen for me and two hours later I left his place with the birds.
Exact one year I came back for the next batch of birds. When this hen heard my voice (she was not able to see me) she started to fly into the netting and the fence. We were affright that she will kill herself. For my whole stay it was same. After I left the hen was completely tame again.
I’m sure they don’t forget anything and especially the combination of strange people and bird catching they will remember.

Regards
Reinhold

 

[casportpony]

My mature birds go nuts when new people walk by their cage, but not because new people = catching as those aviaries are my breeders and pets and are never sold. They are used to be caught my me for worming, but they aren't afraid of me, just strangers.

-Kathy

 

[zazouse]

My birds all walk up to perfect strangers and try to eat their keys or whatever is hanging off them, they never meet a stranger and if i tell you not to park somewhere you better listen cause there are some places here that are peafowl exclusive and you will have peas on your auto if you park in these areas.

My DH has a heck of a time doing anything around the barn or conex boxes all the wee peas want to get in on the action.

I think penned bird don't feel they have an out like free peas do so they tend to be more inquisitive.

 

[DylansMom]

How many here has been embarassed by your peas behavior? Not all of you have a "Thang" in your flock to relate to as we have here,consider yourself all very lucky. But this is not about that "twink" it's all my breeders acting crazy here last Sunday.
Had a friend come here on Sunday and he knew we had grown large in peafowl but had not seen Pea Palace nor any of the breeding birds. So I offered him a view inside of the Palace to see everyone. Everything was fine until he turned and started to walk down the walkway between the pens. The honking started,hens started flying around,and the males all did the same. You would think a bobcat was inside trying to get a meal!
I guess I never realized my group might,,,,,,just might recognize me. Or tolerate me? Or like me? After he left a few hours later I had to feed and water them and it was like nothing happened. Roadtrip was displaying inside his pen and I actually had to move his train to get him to move to fill the feedbowl. Majik,my Midnight male flew off the perch to the ground as he normally does and he too needed coaxed out of my way.
My wife had no issues with them while I went down south a few weeks ago and all she has done is maybe once a week help with chores just to look at the males.I guess since we don't make pets out of them here I took their calm demeanor for granted. But I never expected such a huge change in how they react to strangers. Anyone else notice this?

Mine act the exact same way. I am in those pens usually twice a day or more if the weather permits, and they could care less. I have to move fanned trains out of my way constantly, I duck under occupied perches to grab eggs and they just sit there and occasionally try to drop a bomb on me( if you know what I mean). But the minute a stranger is in that barn, they act like nut cases. I know a lot of people have left thinking why would they ever want to deal with such high strung animals. I can walk up and pet some of mine if I'm alone and they are not ones that I hatched and imprinted, they are just very used to me, but never if I'm not alone.

 

[zazouse]

Drop the bomb

 

[Little Ondine]

My neighbor's pea foul comes into my yard regularly and raids my chickens' food. To my dismay, she doesn't seem afraid of me. I even was able to catch her and throw her over the wall once. Pesky buggers. Maybe I should wear a mask?

 

[DylansMom]

Drop the bomb

Yep! That's the bomb I was talking about, the "PeaBomb". Good thing I'm a pro at dodging them.