Feeling sorry for my little Peachick

[TobyRB22]

So...
New to the whole Peafowl thing, I have my little baby separated from my chickens, with his own house and run but in the same enclosure. When I go in to the chicken enclosure, the peachick seems to get very distressed that I’m there and appears to be frantically trying to escape it’s run and house and makes a lot of squeaking noise. When I’m not in eyesight baby seems to calm down. We’ve only had chick 2 days, bought from the local feed store. It’s very young and still has downy feathers on its neck. The store said 45 days old, but I suspect younger but have no idea.
Is the chick just scared because it sees me as a predator at the moment? Or is it going to have issues later on? I try to stay in the area for around 5 minutes at a time several times a day but it seems to get even more stressed. It’s eating and drinking, but I don’t know what I could do to help calm the chick, or if over time it will get used to me.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

 

[KsKingBee]

It is totally stressed out by all the moving and strange people that have handled it. Try some food deprivation so it is hungry when you come to see and feed it. Offer it hard boiled egg and let it get curious about the offered treat slowly so that it will come to you for food. Eventually it will be glad to see you and eat from our hand. Spending time with it will also help.

 

[TobyRB22]

Thank you for your wonderful response. I did think it could be stressed out. I was frightened about depriving it of food, how long would you recommend for? I actually boiled a few eggs for it to give over the next few days, but just placed it in a feed bowl. I will keep spending time with it and I’ve been talking to it too.

 

[KsKingBee]

You can start by removing the food at night and first thing in the morning it will be ready to eat.