Ugh...kids

[MinxFox]

I had that problem when I lost my first peacock Fire. He never stayed long at all in one place. By the time someone would tell us they saw him it would be too late he was already on the move to some new territory. I hope you can get them back.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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You never did recover him, did you?

 

[MinxFox]

No, but we still hear a peacock calling off in the distance and wonder if it is him. I kinda don't want him back now...He was sort of mean to Ice and I wouldn't have a place to put him. After he left we got four more peafowl and they do so well together introducing another adult male would be bad...I want Dragon to be the King of the pen, and Alto will soon be the King of free-range once Peep gets big enough to free-range I will let Peep free-range with Alto and Pip...Hopefully that is. I do still love Fire, but I have no place to put him and no girlfriend for him so if he is someone's new pet that is cool. I really think if someone were to say they have him I would let them keep him if they wanted to. He was very pretty but just didn't work out.

Lots of people have been able to get their runaway peafowl back, so there is plenty of hope for you.

 

[sacarvounis]

I have a pair of year old peacocks and one of them was "at large" for 10 days before I got him back. We made all of the classic "newbie"mistakes and chased him around in the woods for hours that first day. I was able to catch his brother pretty easily as he is very docile. I put an ad on Craigslist in lost and found after the 5th day and I got a call the next day. He had been hanging around on someones back deck staring at himself in the slider. My husband and I went over to get him but by the time we got there, all of the neighborhood kids were hanging around the deck looking at him and he was pretty agitated. He saw my husband with the fishing net and flew over his head into one of the trees. I went back the next day and he was at a different house standing in a breezeway covered porch. I was able to quietly put a plastic dog gate across the opening and went and got 2 other people. They held up a sheet so that he couldn't see us walking towards him and I was able to reach around the sheet and grab him. He was over 5 miles away in the next town.....had crossed a very busy state road in the process. And his poor brother honked for him for days.

I had intended on free ranging them eventually but after that episode, I'm not so sure. My husband will be building a large flight pen for them this summer. I wish that I could have them out in the yard; we had done really well with them for about a month back in the Spring and I was always able to herd them back in the pen. I don't know what happened that one day.....they suddenly began flying all over the place and then up on top of neighbors houses.

Hope that you get your peas back.....don't give up hope!

 

[shelleyd2008]

Apparently they have been spotted once again. This time they are over 10 miles away in town near the hospital. The person who called said they've been there a few days, so hopefully they are hanging out there. I'm going to go later and take their bowl and some food so hopefully they will STAY there so I can get them back

 

[Knix6468]

you know it would be real interesting if someone would demonstrate via video how to capture peafowl. The idea of the sheet was very intriguing, I would like to see it done in real time.

we dont have a huge net, but when I think about netting them i worry if i go to fast and they move I will HIT them hard, or if I go to slow i will miss them.

I usually chase them in the pen with a beach towel, to a corner, and then lunge at them to get their wings and body and head covered so I can grab.

The other day we had one escape for a few days, and he woudnt be escorted back in, then one day my husband is yelling from the garage, he caught him jumping away from the cats food dish by his tail, and needed me to come out with a towel to scoop him up to return him to the pen. It was the darnest thing to see, husband with the peacock's tail in both hands, and peacock just standing there, not fighting nothing, just standing kind of like a tug of war.

 

[shelleyd2008]

I forgot about the sheet, I might have to try that. My problem with trying to net them is if I miss I'm sure they'll take off and be gone forever.

 

[zazouse]

I bet that was a funny site for sure

 

[shelleyd2008]

Well it turns out that they were a pair of hens, so not mine

Of course I still tried to catch them but they were pretty wild. Maybe I'll go back tomorrow and leave some feed out for them...who knows? I might be able to snag them.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Shelleyd2008-

I sure hope you can find them, and perhaps you can catch the other two peahens as well!

Best of luck and keep us updated!

~ Aspen