Peafowl in a suburban area... Opinions????

[jensen]

Our neighbors have never complained. Maybe we're just lucky...

 

[thefishery]

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I was just wondering how many people had peacocks when I looked in this part of the forum. I had forgotten what they sounded like, it's been so long. This video clip reminded me of going to the NCO club on Shaw AFB as a kid to eat. They had a ton of peacocks running around outside. I remember chasing them and collecting the dropped feathers. They kept the doors leading outside from the dining room and they had a rope going across the door. The peacocks used to stand there waiting for us to go out with scraps. I loved that place.

Now I really want a peacock....if they weren't so darn expensive!

 

[EweSheep]

Not only the males makes alot of noises but the waste they leave behind is ridiculous! Poop on everything! Even on cars!

Better yet, keep them confined instead of having them have the run of the place. Make sure the coop is huge, make like a huge corn silo huge!

 

[EweSheep]

 

[saddina]

Your neighbors will hate you call code enforsement for noise violations and that's in the first week. (sorry being honest) My 1st husband had them, and to be woken out of a sound sleep by the screaming is not something many people will learn to live with. Are you prepaired for the neighbors to phoe the police for "a woman screaming over and over" comming from your place?

 

[Pavo Royale]

Way to go, Ewesheep. Who can top that? A LOT of the bad rap peafowl have gained is from irresponsible owners who have let their free range flocks procreate until they take over their community. I have heard several people from Florida who relocated to this area speak of "wild" flocks of peafowl that do cause a lots of problems. Even large numbers of confined birds with totaly responsibe owners can be a nuiscance if they are not kept in the proper setting. That said, I believe that ONE male in an urban setting can be quite tolerated and even an assett to its community. Kids love them, and I am always anxous to take my birds to appropriate events at schools and churches for everyone to enjoy. I prefer to keep my peacock and peahens penned, but most of my neighbors relish the days I let them out. I am walking on thin ice here, and one complaint can end the bliss, but I am thoughly enjoying them at this moment. Incidentally, I do have an alternative location that I can move them to during breeding season if it is warranted. Peafowl are not for everyone or just any environment, but they are completely enjoyable to own and experience and very rewarding to those with the gall to try. But, only ONE male is the key to the success that I enjoy at this time. I am not sure that even I could live with two!

Ok, now I have peace with those who bash peafowl. What I don't understand is those who CHOOSE to live with guinneas! HA!

 

[deerman]

Well my numbers are down now, 60 maybe. Was up to 100 breeders, believe it NOT one person has complain. Myself I love their call, lot better than a pack of barking dogs. This year even had two neighbors get some from me... Very few of mine free range..

The thing get me, I have had peafowl starting in the early 80s. Is it FAIR for people new to the area ,to build these new homes and then start complaining, about what has been there for years I say NOT. Seen this happen, if you dont like the noise and smell in the country. DONT move there and expect those farmer to get rid of something they have had for years.....


Now in the case of the OP , first timers bring something in may getsome complaining. I would let them know, but like my neighbor some people do like the call, yes mostly in the spring. Some peope like a rooster crow some dont........

 

[Barry Natchitoches]

Peacocks in Suburbia?


ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!!!


I live on a five acre place, and a neighbor had a peacock.


That thing would fly up in the trees 40 feet above and at least 125 feet away from where my wife planted her vegetable garden.


It was bad enough that the peacock decided that he "owned" her lettuce plants. He ate them while they were young, and so she went out to replant them.


That is when the peacock attacked her. It must have thought she was going after it's food, when in reality she was planting more lettuce.


At any rate, this huge, noisy bird came swooping down from out of nowhere, gunning towards her. She described it later, saying it sounded like a Nazi bomber swooping down at her. She was bent down, digging in the dirt at the time it began its aerial attack (she has bad knees, so she bends down like one does when touching one's toes, to dig planting holes and plant plants in the ground), and she bolted up suddenly when she heard the loud noise coming at her. She has blood pressure problems, and when she instinctively bolted up from the stooped position like that, she blacked out for a moment. It was extremely frightening to her, because she didn't even know the peacock was up there in those trees until it began to swoop down on her.


My wife hates guns and has never shot a living creature in her life. But when she recovered enough to respond from the attack, she ran inside the house and grabbed both of my shotguns and emptied both of them in the direction of that peacock. Our state law allows that, BTW, as long as it is on your own property. She did not succeed in killing it -- I had to do that the next week when it came back on our property while she was trying to work in her garden.


Peacocks are so cute, and people just don't realize that these birds CAN be dangerous under the right (or should I say wrong) set of circumstances.


That peacock potentially endangered my wife's life, betweeen its willingness to swoop down from those tall trees screaching so loudly and my wife's chronic health condition. I did not hesitate to shoot it, and offer no apology for it -- my wife's safety is more important than a bird's anyday.


If you do not have a large enough place to keep that bird on your property at all times, then do not get it. In most states nowadays, it is illegal for a pet of yours to wander off of your property anyway (with the exception of cats).

 

[hrdwrkgrl]

My mom said they make great watchdogs. I don't think the noise would bother me. Loved the video ( big smile). I want some.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

couldnt agree more with ya there Deerman.
I just inherited our family farm a few years back, 130 acres my grand dad bought way back in 1940. We have always lived and farmed this place ever since. Well, my neightbor passed several years back and their kids sold off their farm, 175 acres, to a #$%& subdivision developer. Waiting for the complaints you mentioned to start! Kind of dare them to start actually, as we are now being contantly bombarded by tresspassers, kids on 4 wheeeler, people hunting (in MY deer stand) etc. I'd much rather have someones peacock walk threw my yard than all that junk.
But, we have about 40 peafowl, all penned too, and 50-60 wild turkeys, and oh 200 ish bantams, so probley wont be long before one of them wants to say something about them.
Personally, I love every sound they make!