Ours are in a pen with 8-foot-tall fencing that is roofed in Top-Flight netting. I really like that stuff: if they get startled and fly up into it, it gives enough to avoid breaking bones. On several occasions, though, those stupid ground squirrels have chewed a hole in the netting and some of the young birds have gotten out. They fly like crazy and some have vanished into the trees or down the road. Fortunately, they're imprinted on the property and all of them have returned. I think we've finally gotten the net up where the squirrels can't get to it.
Regarding noise levels: it's worst in the spring and summer, when the males call day and night. (There's a big-rig driver who likes to lay on his air horn when he goes by, because the peacocks will answer it!) But during the rest of the year, they can still get a little noisy: when they see something they don't like, the alarm call is "SPONK!" and both sexes use it. In hindsight, we probably should not have located the peapen thirty feet from the bedroom . . . .
Regarding noise levels: it's worst in the spring and summer, when the males call day and night. (There's a big-rig driver who likes to lay on his air horn when he goes by, because the peacocks will answer it!) But during the rest of the year, they can still get a little noisy: when they see something they don't like, the alarm call is "SPONK!" and both sexes use it. In hindsight, we probably should not have located the peapen thirty feet from the bedroom . . . .
