Peacock VS Guinea Rooster...

[texascowboy1979]

So... I dont know if this is normal.. but my IB Peafowl and Guineas are free range.... they have been for about 6 months... everything has been fine... but just the other day... one of the Guinea roosters keeps taunting my Peacocks... and yesterday, the peacock was chasing the guinea rooster all day... and I mean all day... NOn stop running... and its all because of the guinea... Ive separated them and then the guinea will find the peacock and make the peacock chase him... I think the guinea gets pleasure out of tormenting the peacock...

Im afraid that the peacock will run him self to death.. is this possible?

Thought, advice... anyone with similar situations?

 

[Kev]

Peacock won't run himself to death.

Bad news, that is just how guineas are, they can get pretty mean and cause problems like this. It is also very possible the guinea will turn the tables on the peacock and end up making life very miserable for peacocks, guineas will do great harm if they are harassing birds and are able to corner or completely wear one out to the point it can't move much anymore. You do need to worry when guineas start to gang up on other birds.

I also had free range chickens, peafowl, turkey and guineas. There were "no problems at all" for the first year after the guinea pair first came here. Then the male started harassing all roosters.. he damaged ALL rooster tails. For a couple months, it was just roosters.. but when they had babies and they were full grown, they started harassing all chickens and the father started going after the turkeys(believe it or not.. the turkeys became very frightened of them.. they were relentless!). But they left peacocks alone for some reason.. until for unknown reason they seriously tried to corner one male and very much looked like they had the intent to actually kill him- they were 'body slamming' him every time he tried to stop to take a breather.. and the males would just about get on top of him and bite his face/head. That was the last straw.. clipped wings on the guinea males.. which helped a lot- birds were able to escape them easier.

My last straw was when one of the confined peafowl accidentally got out... they went CRAZY on it and caused it to fly away before I could get it back inside.. they were on it like burning glue. Sold off all guineas except for a pair and one white daughter and kept them confined to a pen by themselves, permanently. Enough was enough. This is almost a year, still think of getting rid of those three too.. the male still acts very aggressive to birds in the next door pen or anything walking by.

 

[chickenzoo]

I have a peacock and a BR Turkey Tom. It is a love hate relationship. Sometimes they tolerate each other, sometimes they will fight then chase each other at a quick walk. The tom Turkey will go inside the round pen corral and the peacock will be on the outside, and they will follow each other in that circle, round and round - all day. They will stop, take a breather, might even change sides, and then do it again......... crazy birds.

 

[arherp]

I would pen up the Guinea - or tie a chain to his leg.

 

[texascowboy1979]

ive noticed its only one of the males that agrivates the male peafowl only...

 

[Kev]

That's often how it starts.... either just one guinea is doing it at first.. or they are targeting just one "thing" only.. Like I said, first year, no problems at all. That's a long time. Then guinea targeted "just roosters" for a while.... then it was all barred/cuckoo chickens(and all roosters too).. then all chickens.. was that way for a good while.. then the turkeys.. was just the chickens and turkeys for a while.. then the peacocks. Every 'step' was very sudden and seemingly totally out of the blue on one day and stayed that way forever.

 

[texascowboy1979]

is this just somthing that the males will do? cause if its just the males... I can come up with something... or is it the entire species?

There great for tick control... dont get me wrong... so I'll have to find a compramise...