Show off your Peas!

[Garden Peas]

Birdbrain you can tie your birds' legs and leave the door open and he will come inside.

Safer to put them in dog crates....

 

[thndrdancr]

That would give me hope for my silver pied, except we had only lived here 2 months when he disappeared and even my IB got lost a month later but was thankfully found.
He also went on a walk with the hens and all returned but my pretty boy. .
And I do think they have memories, I think they learn over the course of their lives. Otherwise chickens could never be clicker trained, and i have to believe they are smarter than a chicken. I have had some very intelligent chickens in the past so don't know. I would think any animal learns over its lifetime and peas have much longer to learn, thus starting out, my opinion probably same intelligence but learn over time puts them ahead of the game? Might not be but stands to reason.

 

[zazouse]

He's been gone for three years. He flew off when he was a yearling. Last time I saw him was the beginning of this year in a horse's grain bucket eating the grain so I knew he was still alive but I just never thought now he would show up. After all he's 4 years old now so he's been ready to breed for a year now. Maybe it might be since Thora and Marshmallow calling may have brought him back. Hearing a male looking for a hen wouldn't attract him. Another thing I'm worried about is could he keep sticking around that Colbolt will keep trying to fight him and never breed Sage? I haven't seen any fighting yet just Colbolt pacing trying to find away to get to him.

I thought you only had peas for 3 years, and the ones you did loose were killed by a neighbor?

 

[Garden Peas]

It is clear that the birds here recognize different people -- which depends on long term memory. And there was fence-pacing over the chicken separation for much longer than 10 days... So my experience suggests to me that they have memories which last much longer. And we know that 10 days is not long enough for birds to be released to free range if they have lived elsewhere.

Anybody wanna share whether peas "forget" what it means when someone walks in with a net (say after a 10 day interval?)

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Safer to put them in dog crates....

I meant only when he is watching.

 

[Garden Peas]

I mean you take a peacock out of his place for 10 days and he goes on an other place .
Then you take it back on you place in free ranging ( of course ) he almost forget everything and other peacocks want to fight with him.

Peacocks live on the same place, a part is locked in a pen totally open ... no boards, the other part is free range. They know each other ... they see each other every day and very close . One day, you freedom everyone .... they fight!

Hmmmm, seems as though they remember (and miss) flock members longer than 10 days, but it may be that when you reintroduce a bird that has been gone for 10 days, they are no longer willing to accept the bird?

Love the poem "good fences make good neighbors" (Mending Wall, Robert Frost)

 

[Garden Peas]

I meant only when he is watching.

It's actually a great idea, what you said, only safer... if they are hanging out in dog crates, the free bird may very well go inside the pen, especially if there's some grain around. This way, no risk of injury to legs.

I just dunno what will happen if he catches him. Birdrain, do you have a way to keep three males separated these days? Maybe you can just keep the old male around with lots of catfood and grain while you work like crazy on your new pen?

 

[DylansMom]

It's actually a great idea, what you said, only safer... if they are hanging out in dog crates, the free bird may very well go inside the pen, especially if there's some grain around. This way, no risk of injury to legs.

I just dunno what will happen if he catches him. Birdrain, do you have a way to keep three males separated these days? Maybe you can just keep the old male around with lots of catfood and grain while you work like crazy on your new pen?

Did Birdrain get another male when I was on vacation? I thought he only had one... the IB male Cobalt, as well as the IB hen, BS hen and Spalding hen. What color is the third male?

 

[birdman55]

he has plenty of ties for the peafowl...lol....but i do think that would be a good idea with the crates..lure him in...you could even get a sensor instal it by the door and put the main unit by you in the house and anything that would go in ....it would "ding"...letting you know something was there....just hope you dont get yourself like a bear in there...

 

[Garden Peas]

Did Birdrain get another male when I was on vacation? I thought he only had one... the IB male Cobalt, as well as the IB hen, BS hen and Spalding hen. What color is the third male?

My bad, he must just have the one male... I forget things easily these days...

I just remembered he only has two pens right now, and is working on a third for the soon-to-be white birds. But if there is a pen with two girls, maybe this nice IB male can join them?