Im getting peafowl. problem: ive never had them and know nothing about them. please help.

[nathanmouse]

Lol I've already scoured all those websites!

 

[MeepBeep]

Many people seem to think they sound like a lady screaming for help. I don't think peacocks sound like that

The people I got my local eggs from this year live about a mile away from a nature preserve... They told me that pretty much every breeding season they get at least one visit from the po-po on a "wellness" checkup due to someone reporting someone screaming for help... The police know full well what it but they still stop by as part of the followup after someone calls it in...

 

[MinxFox]

It is always funny when you have someone over that doesn't know about the peafowl, or they don't know what they sound like. Once one of the peacocks calls, the person says, "What was THAT!?" I have 3 peacocks and usually they don't do much calling together so I enjoy visiting other people with lots of peacocks and hearing them all chime in once one starts calling. I really enjoy it but I could see some people not appreciating it. When I went to buy Damsel, my pied peahen, the peafowl breeder I got her from was surrounded by houses. There was a house a few feet from their peafowl pen. I was amazed that they had around 20 peafowl in such a developed neighborhood. That would have been me though if all our neighbors were fine with me having peafowl. The people who complained the most about the idea were people we knew very well. I keep my peafowl at my grandma's and she has neighbors but they are not so close. On one side is a family friend's house and on the other is a granite warehouse. In the way back there are woods.

When telling neighbors about getting into peafowl, we would always mention that they can be noisy, but then dispel some of the myths of peafowl. Some people really think they are terrible. I just hope that whatever happens in my lifetime, that I will be able to find a place to live out the rest of my life raising peafowl without any worry of people moving nearby and then complaining about the birds. My Grandma's is a nice place, but areas around her place are already being developed and a wall-mart went in down the road and it is only a matter of time before the big parcels of land next to her get sold off for commercial stuff. My dad remembers when the road in front of my grandma's house was a dirt road instead of a busy road.

 

[new 2 pfowl]

I sincerely apologize for jumping on you like that, Nathan!

We do get some crazy showing up people here who just get peas without thinking about their safety, etc. first.
You are clearly not like that and I did not mean to discourage you in any way.
I know there is a lot to learn and it must seem overwhelming!

So please accept my apology, and a belated...

 

[new 2 pfowl]

That is so true about the noise!

Sometimes I sit outside to make phone calls, and it's funny the way the person on the other end of the line will just suddenly stop in the middle of their sentence when the peas get to hollering. I've had to explain what it is to people and I'm not always sure they believe me!

That's too bad about development creeping up on your Grandmas/peas house, MinxFox. It's not easy to find a good place for peas...

 

[MinxFox]

Yes unfortunately someday I am sure my peafowl will not be accepted at my Grandma's. I really hope I can live on my parent's 120 acres in the country. As I have said on another thread, my mom is working on house plans for living on their waterfront property so I doubt they will be living on the 120 acres (although my dad would probably rather live there). If I had all of that land it would certainly be different. I could free-range some peafowl, have more room for pens, and be able to have a fresh start to better plan a pen setup. The only neighbors are friends of ours and keep lots of horses. They offered me to ride horses with them so I could get my horse fix without having to have one, and it is all on a dirt road which I love. My dad has talked about what I could do with the land so he is for the idea. Of course I don't expect to live there right away after college. I am sure it will be years before I have just the right setup but at least that gives me lots of time to learn what works and what doesn't. I also hope I can always stay in this area. I would hate to have to move but I might have to for a job in Graphic Design (or whatever I end up with).

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Anyways I am trying to think of something on-topic to say, but I don't know. Sorry about that!

 

[Garden Peas]

Yes unfortunately someday I am sure my peafowl will not be accepted at my Grandma's. I really hope I can live on my parent's 120 acres in the country. As I have said on another thread, my mom is working on house plans for living on their waterfront property so I doubt they will be living on the 120 acres (although my dad would probably rather live there). If I had all of that land it would certainly be different. I could free-range some peafowl, have more room for pens, and be able to have a fresh start to better plan a pen setup. The only neighbors are friends of ours and keep lots of horses. They offered me to ride horses with them so I could get my horse fix without having to have one, and it is all on a dirt road which I love. My dad has talked about what I could do with the land so he is for the idea. Of course I don't expect to live there right away after college. I am sure it will be years before I have just the right setup but at least that gives me lots of time to learn what works and what doesn't. I also hope I can always stay in this area. I would hate to have to move but I might have to for a job in Graphic Design (or whatever I end up with).

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Anyways I am trying to think of something on-topic to say, but I don't know. Sorry about that!

Dreaming about future peafowl owning plans seems perfectly on-topic to me

 

[MeepBeep]

I was amazed that they had around 20 peafowl in such a developed neighborhood. That would have been me though if all our neighbors were fine with me having peafowl. The people who complained the most about the idea were people we knew very well.

I live on the cusp of conflict... We live on a 30 acre farm, unincorporated and zoned 'Rural Estate" basically the same as being zoned agricultural in my area... But, the ironic twist is that literally across the street is an incorporated and gated "up and up" retirement community lets just say they are not always happy with what I can legally do across the street from them, and I'm not shy about doing what I can legally do even if they don't like it...

 

[MinxFox]

Haha reminds me of the story one peafowl breeder once told...A person from the city moved out to the country right near them and then soon called the cops on the peafowl breeder because the birds were noisy. The cops laughed and said they were a peafowl breeder and they were there first so deal with it.

The worst story about a unhappy neighbor is the story someone on here posted about when their neighbor came over and poisoned most of their peafowl. That was so terrible! If only everyone could just accept that people will do what they will do with their own land. Some people want to live in a neighborhood with houses that all look the same and are a foot apart from each other, and some people want to live like the people on that show Ice Lake Rebels where they live on a frozen lake and don't have to pay taxes.

I love stories where neighbors really love peafowl. My grandma's neighbor loves them and Garden Peas I like how you said your neighbor has peafowl as well. I would say it would be fun living in a neighborhood that was just all BYC peafowl people, but then I think we would all have more trouble selling peafowl although we could all combine to be one large peafowl breeding facility.

 

[MeepBeep]

Haha reminds me of the story one peafowl breeder once told...A person from the city moved out to the country right near them and then soon called the cops on the peafowl breeder because the birds were noisy. The cops laughed and said they were a

Sadly this has become the norm in my area, some of the local village hall meetings have got real ugly... We are getting a lot of Chicago and surrounding urban/city spillage into my area and they just can't accept the fact that their new association governed neighborhood is surrounded by long time rural homes and farms with different rules and laws...