Stray peacock visiting our chickens.

[rlephoto]

Anyone know how to keep peacocks away? Our neighbor has them and they keep us up all night, we like fresh air and leave the windows open. A beautiful male have been here 2-3 times a week. Very tame I have touched his feathers as he displays to our hens. We have dealt with the noise for over 5 years now, don't need it 40 ft out our bedroom window.

 

[DylansMom]

Anyone know how to keep peacocks away? Our neighbor has them and they keep us up all night, we like fresh air and leave the windows open. A beautiful male have been here 2-3 times a week. Very tame I have touched his feathers as he displays to our hens. We have dealt with the noise for over 5 years now, don't need it 40 ft out our bedroom window.

You say you have dealt with the noise for over 5 years, but has the Peacock just started visiting or has that been going on for 5 years as well? If he just started showing up to visit your chickens, he may have lost a mate recently, breeding season is here or darn close and he may be looking for females. If your neighbor had females they may have kept him occupied and prevented roaming. Anyway, you have only a couple options first would be to talk to the neighbor and nicely ask them to contain the bird if this doesn't work you could check with local law enforcement and see what your rights are in this situation, or you can try to make coming to visit a negative experience for the Peacock. Unfortunately, once something becomes a habit with a Peacock it is very hard to change that behavior. If he just started to visit try to contain the chickens where he cannot see or interact with them and then try chasing him home when he shows up. If he cannot get to the chickens and it becomes unpleasant to visit he should stop. You will have to seriously scare him when you chase him off, or you will just be considered a nuisance and he will circle back the minute you give up the chase. If you try this please keep his welfare in mind and do not attempt it if it could put him in danger(do not chase him across roads or anything) . I have a male who practically lives on my back porch, but I must lock him up during breeding season, he is a fighter and when he sees his reflection in the sliding doors he attacks it. I can chase him off 100 times a day and he just circles back and starts it again. It is a major habit of his now and he knows I am not really anything he needs to fear so he doesn't take me as a serious threat. I should have nipped his behavior in the bud when it started, but I had no idea how bad it would get so now he just gets locked up from April thru July. If it is any consolation we sleep with about 30 of them 40 ft from our windows and we do not even hear them anymore, but it has taken almost 20 years to get that used to it!

 

[zazouse]

Anyone know how to keep peacocks away? Our neighbor has them and they keep us up all night, we like fresh air and leave the windows open. A beautiful male have been here 2-3 times a week. Very tame I have touched his feathers as he displays to our hens. We have dealt with the noise for over 5 years now, don't need it 40 ft out our bedroom window.

Does he eat at your place? if he does you may not be able to rid yourself of him as he has adopted your place.I never could keep a pea out of a tree so i do not know what you could do except cut the tree down