Peep goes bad

[clinton9]

Remember: Forgiving, understanding, patience, no hitting, no kicking.

If he kick you again...turn your back and walk away or give him a push.

Remember Peep is like a teenage boy, need training and patience.

Patient reared peafowls are harmless, unlike naughty imprinted peafowls who don't know how to behave & end up kicking people.

Strave the aggressive / naughty peafowls, would be last resortment only.
Not feeding the naughty peafowls that kicked people, for 2 days, will help peafowls learn to behave.

Hitting, kicking the peafowls, are useless as this only causes the peafowls to become wary.

 

[deerman]

Remember: Forgiving, understanding, patience, no hitting, no kicking.

If he kick you again...turn your back and walk away or give him a push.

Remember Peep is like a teenage boy, need training and patience.

Patient reared peafowls are harmless, unlike naughty imprinted peafowls who don't know how to behave & end up kicking people.

Strave the aggressive / naughty peafowls, would be last resortment only.
Not feeding the naughty peafowls that kicked people, for 2 days, will help peafowls learn to behave.

Hitting, kicking the peafowls, are useless as this only causes the peafowls to become wary.

sorry disagree walking away after a attack ,just shows the peacock is the boss.....sworry better a good kick (even if it kills the peacock).....better than losing your eyes which easy could happen. Just alway be prepare

 

[MinxFox]

Yes I agree with Deerman, and I would hope I wouldn't kill him but I would give him a good enough kick to let him know I mean business. With deer, bears, ibex, and even squirrels and little birds you can observe that when they fight or get in a conflict of territory or something the loser is the one that backs away. If you own wolves you can't back away, you have to show them you are the pack leader so they show you respect and don't end up killing you one day. The animal that is strong and tough usually does well. For example my peahen Ice is a big peahen larger then my other peahen Damsel. Ice will assert her dominance to other birds by pecking and kicking and she did just that to Alto. When Alto got bigger, he fought back and chased Ice all around and put her in her place and now she runs from him. If Alto never stood up for himself and just did nothing when she attacked him he would still be under her control.

You have talked about not feeding peafowl for two days in another topic if I remember correctly and I don't really think that is a good idea. Taking away the food is only going to make the peafowl hungry and they will not understand why they are not getting food.
If you have a bad peafowl hitting or kicking it and thus making it weary is probably what you want to happen. That way the bird will be too afraid to attack you. I don't like weary peafowl but I sure like a weary peafowl over one that wants to attack you.

I have been keeping an eye on Peep and he has been very good. He does sometimes randomly flap around so I still haven't ruled out that perhaps he just spooked or was flapping around and accidentally hit me in the face...

I can't no for sure since I wasn't watching him. The only 'bad' thing Peep does is peck at my clothes, but that isn't really bad, it is just annoying.

 

[Frosty]

If you do have to put him in his place later, I would recommend going after him right when he acts out so it's an immediate consequence. And I agree, they won't think 'if I do this I won't get food'. That doesn't work with any critter, they just don't put two and two together like that.

 

[deerman]

The killing part i threw in their.....just to show them who is boss....no need to really kill one.

What work best for me was the net.....if he act like he was ready to attack, i would net him.them hold him down with my hands......he was still tame out of the breeding season.

Funny any of by birds that have been netted....all will run it they see the net. I have to hide it behind my back.

 

[Honeybchickie]

The net works wonders.

 

[deerman]

 

[deerman]

thats my mean boy....no not my grandson ,but his buddy....super tame if not breeding time