Peep goes bad

[zazouse]

 

[Phage]

Sorry to hear that MF

We have a sort of similar situation but with a hen.
We have a pied IB male (3Y) a cameo hen (3Y) and a java hen (2Y). All are super tame.
The java hen really like people, especially me and gets bullied big time by the other 2 birds, especially the cameo hen. She really prefers people. However on 2 occasions she has jumped from a perch onto my daughters. One daughter has spent a lot of time with her, the other is not into the peas much and virtually never goes in there.

Is this just trying to perch on the girls or is this aggression? The girls who were 12 and 14 at the time were pretty shook up but not really hurt.

Also at 3 years is the peacock likely to show aggression even though he has not up till now?

Apart from the 2 episodes with the Java hen, none have ever shown any aggression, but I have to say I have been very careful going into the pen for the last week or 2 since the peacock has been displaying a lot.

 

[MinxFox]

Peep didn't do anything aggressive today so he might have just gotten over excited or jumpy. I have had Peep jump onto my back before, once when he was on a higher perch and I was getting the food bowl and he jumped down onto my back which was really funny and another time when I let him in with the adults and my peahen Damsel scared him and he flew onto my back (once again I was messing with a food bowl) to escape Damsel. Today I opened the door to Peep's pen to let him into the adult peafowl pen. Peep is the height of an adult but he isn't as wide as an adult yet so I thought he might do better with the adults. When I opened the pen door and he walked out Ice ran up to him and I blocked him from Ice and Ice ran into the peafowl pen because I hadn't closed the door yet and she ran around kicking at the whites and so I had to herd her out of there. I opened the door later for Peep to go back out and this time made sure Ice was in another area of the pen and Ice's peachick Xena (all of Ice's peachicks are much smaller then Peep and they are all girls) Xena walked up and took on a threatening walk to Peep and puffed up and she didn't even have to jump at him and he was flapping around scared and ran into a narrow corner and got stuck and backed out of the corner and Xena lifted up her train making herself look bigger and Peep got so scared so I jumped in and did what I always do when another bird scares him which is getting really close to him and petting him and he hid his head in my hair then I let him back in his pen.

I can REALLY tell the difference between people raised peachicks and peahen raised peachicks. Ice's chicks are really tough little fighters but I think they get that from their bossy momma.

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Glad to hear that Peep was his old sweet self today! (after getting intimidated by the tough girls...)
It sounds like everyone is overexcited these days, this is a big time of year for them.
And Peep's probably at a difficult age...it seems as though it's sort of the peacock equivalent of being a teenaged boy (no offense intended to any teenaged boys who may be reading this).

 

[deerman]

Minxfox .......yes looks like peep. See you as a peafowl. At this age he was try to set a pecking order. Dont let him get away with his behavier.

I used a leaf rack. Or the landing net to keep mine away.

Just dont trust him during the breeding season. A peacock full grown. Can do alot of damage mine surpise me at 3yr old. With their nails and spurs. They can give a nasty cuts....in my case he did bring blood. He does fear my net or rack.


Like this to be a warning ...best never to single raise a peachick by hand. As a bunch i have not seen this.....its the imprint on humans.....in deer buck fawns if imprint have been known to kill their owner during the breeding season.

 

[Honeybchickie]

I hand raised my peacock, Wild Bill, from a hatchling. He firmly believes I am part of his flock. He thinks he needs to be inside the house (I do not let him inside anymore and haven't since he was several months old). Billy is now three years old. He has attacked me during mating season and actually cut the top of my head open with his spurs while I was mowing the yard. Not to mention the giant scratchmarks down my back. He constantly tries to "herd" me, he flies onto my vehicle when I'm trying to leave and he will chase my car down the road. I am in an abusive relationship with my bird and I am the victim!! LOL I love him dearly, but if I could have done things differently, I would have. He even has a flock of peahens now, I thought that would help. It only helped a little. I had to finally catch him and trim his spurs, and carry a net around, which helps tremendously. It's sad because I really can tell that he doesn't understand why I won't "mind" him. LOL AND, I will say on the kicking or whatever disciplinary action you might take, if you don't nip that behavior in the bud early on, when he is older they want to fight. They are big birds and there have been a few times where he will do a superhero jump / min flight in the air and somehow try to dive bomb me. NO BUENO. Good luck.

 

[deerman]

just think of the peafowl flock......one peacock will be at the top of the pecking order, but sometime another peacock may try him.

SO ALWAY SHOW THEM YOU ARE THE ONE IN CONTROL. this is for those imprint,.

now the pure greens, and real high % spalding......can be mean without being imprinted, but every ib i have heard or seen mean has been a single raised imprinted ones.

myself i only had one ,out of thousands of peacocks i had over my life....

 

[ezcruiser2001]

Peep sounds like some peacocks I had many years ago. I hatched them from an incubator and raised them myself.
I had 3, and 2 out of the 3 were very aggressive. Sweetpea was the worse. (He was anything but sweet) When you raise
peacocks yourself, you really can't instill a sense of fear of humans in them. Their real mothers would make a warning sound if
threatened by something and lure them away, but we don't do that when we raise them. (I have come up with a sound, purely by
accident to get them running for cover when they're young) Peacocks are very territorial, so your peep probably didn't want you in
his area at that time. My sweetpea would attack people who walked in his territory and he would chase my husband to the car
and chase the car down the drive and lunge at the tires. He barely tolerated me and in the end I just accepted it. What else can
you do. The other peacock wasn't quite as mean and the third one was as sweet as a lamb. I would be cautious around peep and
caution other people if they get around him. But really, they are just being what they are. Hopefully, everything will work out.

 

[deerman]

I rasied many hundreds over my life time...they dont need to fear humans. If raised with others can still can be tame...i only had one.....single raised with nothing but me....thats wbere he got imprinted.

If it was those hatch in incubators and raised together......just about every peafowl got there would be MEAN

 

[MinxFox]

just think of the peafowl flock......one peacock will be at the top of the pecking order, but sometime another peacock may try him.

SO ALWAY SHOW THEM YOU ARE THE ONE IN CONTROL. this is for those imprint,.

now the pure greens, and real high % spalding......can be mean without being imprinted, but every ib i have heard or seen mean has been a single raised imprinted ones.

myself i only had one ,out of thousands of peacocks i had over my life....

That is what I was thinking. I know Ice can be very bossy and jumps on anyone that stands in her way from being the dominant peahen except and adult peacock of course...I am going to discipline Peep if he tries to jump at me again because I realize that if I don't do something my favorite little peacock will end up being my first mean bird. Once again Peep was good today. He did some displaying so I watched out when I was in the pen and he was displaying but he was good. He flew up onto the perch and I tried to hand feed him but he pecked at the food but didn't really eat it. He was more interested in getting pet. I think this breeding season I am not going to try hatching eggs in an incubator. Raising Peep was very awesome and I might hand raise some peachicks again but I really like having the peahen raise her chicks. The hen raised peachicks get so much more important lessons and such and I feel kind of bad that Peep doesn't like his own kind that much but I am proud to be able to teach Peep how to scratch in the leaves for food and how to catch bugs and things like that. My mom said Peep could be a movie bird because if you tap on a perch he flies up there. He is fairly smart in my opinion. I wish that I could have hatched another peachick with him too but he was the only egg that developed.