JenRoe
In the Brooder
- Sep 8, 2017
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Hi -
We came home from a weekend away and found a peahen had moved onto our front porch. We live on acreage surrounded by forest and we've asked around and found no area neighbors with peacocks. We are unsure where she may have come from, though she must have flown in. We do not hear any distressed birds calling for her. She is a little standoffish, but definitely used to people, and she trees up at night, so likely wasn't penned. We have researched how to feed and care for her, and she seems to be doing well. Her name is Zsa Zsa because she has such an elegant strut.
We have 2 questions:
1. One of my animal loving relatives (who has been very helpful) would like to take her and give her a happy home with their several other peafowl. But it is a 6 hour drive and she'd be in a large dog kennel in the back of a truck (with canopy). She would also need to adjust to a new high-desert climate (vs. her current wet pacific northwest climate). Do we send her on this journey to a really great new home? Or would she be better off if we built out a safer setup for her here and purchased a male (or others) to join her? We also worry about predators here as we see coyotes, raccoons, eagles, black bears and bobcats with some regularity. We rarely see, but also have local cougars and foxes. Her new home, would have similar predators, but isn't so heavily forested so they are more visible from a distance. We are happy with either solution and appreciate your knowledge and thoughts here.
2. Can anyone tell us what variety of peafowl she is? We've researched, but all of the pictures we find to help identify the variety are of males, and we can't figure it out. Here's her picture (with her friend, the stone and rusty-metal quail behind her). Isn't she great?!
We came home from a weekend away and found a peahen had moved onto our front porch. We live on acreage surrounded by forest and we've asked around and found no area neighbors with peacocks. We are unsure where she may have come from, though she must have flown in. We do not hear any distressed birds calling for her. She is a little standoffish, but definitely used to people, and she trees up at night, so likely wasn't penned. We have researched how to feed and care for her, and she seems to be doing well. Her name is Zsa Zsa because she has such an elegant strut.
We have 2 questions:
1. One of my animal loving relatives (who has been very helpful) would like to take her and give her a happy home with their several other peafowl. But it is a 6 hour drive and she'd be in a large dog kennel in the back of a truck (with canopy). She would also need to adjust to a new high-desert climate (vs. her current wet pacific northwest climate). Do we send her on this journey to a really great new home? Or would she be better off if we built out a safer setup for her here and purchased a male (or others) to join her? We also worry about predators here as we see coyotes, raccoons, eagles, black bears and bobcats with some regularity. We rarely see, but also have local cougars and foxes. Her new home, would have similar predators, but isn't so heavily forested so they are more visible from a distance. We are happy with either solution and appreciate your knowledge and thoughts here.
2. Can anyone tell us what variety of peafowl she is? We've researched, but all of the pictures we find to help identify the variety are of males, and we can't figure it out. Here's her picture (with her friend, the stone and rusty-metal quail behind her). Isn't she great?!
