Stray Peafowl Reported, Need Advice

[Hens and Roos]

My dad caught one that was wondering his yard using a dog crate with food inside. good luck! Very pretty pea

 

[yorkchick]

Thanks for all the encouragement! I have borrowed a dog exercise pen from a friend, going to stake that to the ground, cover it with plastic netting secured with zip ties, and see if she can be bribed into it. Hoping she does not take it into her head to fly off before I can get this all worked out with the homeowner.

So there are some darker feathers down her back, which is why I was asking if she could possibly be a black shoulder peahen rather than a white. Some pictures I've seen of the BS hens have a lot of dark markings, but some have less. Or is she just a less-than-pristine white? And if she's a white, could she actually be a young male? It doesn't matter one way or the other as far as catching her, I'm just curious!

 

[zazouse]

does she look like this?
Click on original to see larger photo of my girl.

 

[yorkchick]

Pretty darn close, zazouse! Her faint markings on her back are maybe a little more obvious than on your girl, but may be the photo versus seeing her in person, as they didn't show up all that well in my photo either. And I'd say she has a faint bit of that same color in her tail feathers. She does not have the buff/brownish coloring on her neck like a BS hen would have. So, you are saying white hen, (and not juvenile male)? (What a pretty, pretty girl you have, by the way! I can see how I am getting sucked in to Pea World, here!

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[zazouse]

That is the lovely Miss Dirty, she has stained feathers, sometimes they are green when she rummages threw the grass clippings. LOL and her legs are always muddy cause she likes to soak in the mud puddles LOL

At this time breeding season is ending for us here in the US so it is easer to see how weathered peas get during mating season with they are whites, they will go threw a molt and look so beautiful again till the next season arrives.
And I believe ya got a hen their not a peacock

 

[yorkchick]

Thank you! If the owner can't be found, I'll keep her, and truthfully I think I'd prefer hen to peacock. I'm trying not to get ahead of myself here, though, because she isn't even caught yet, and the very best outcome would be to find her owner if an owner is looking for her. Still, my mind keeps racing ahead to what I'll need to build to house her (temporary housing I have figured out--secure 20 x 20 room in the barn once used as a paint room by a former owner, most recently as a recovery room when my turkey was injured, so I have it set up with a perch and it's completely separate from the other birds for quarantine). Then if the owner can't be found... I know I'm getting ahead of myself... this is like chicken math, peafowl version... how content will she be with chickens and a turkey as companions? How much does she need other peafowl? (I lost my second turkey earlier this summer, so I've already been asking myself these questions about the turkey).

I guess what I'm about to find out is, whether you very kind peafowl folk are as shameless as enablers as the rest of BYC tends to be about chickens???

Very rarely does anyone say, "Oh no,you don't need another bird! You have enough right now!" Ahem. Very rarely have I ever said that to anyone else, either.

 

[zazouse]

I guess what I'm about to find out is, whether you very kind peafowl folk are as shameless as enablers as the rest of BYC tends to be about chickens???

Very rarely does anyone say, "Oh no,you don't need another bird! You have enough right now!" Ahem. Very rarely have I ever said that to anyone else, either.

Me an enabler.. why I never

need another bird.. me ? No but they need me LOL
so now I got close to 40 running around here

 

[yinepu]

Zazouse.. I'm envious of your birds!...

Eventually I'll find someone "local" who will be willing to part with some peafowl eggs or chicks!

 

[zazouse]

Zazouse.. I'm envious of your birds!...

Eventually I'll find someone "local" who will be willing to part with some peafowl eggs or chicks!

where you at in Texas? anywhere near Beaumont or Orange?

 

[zazouse]

Those babies in the photo will follow anything with legs you could walk off with the whole flock LOL