If that don't beet all strange bird in my chicken pen

old · Jan 23, 2012

Well went ok to put up my chickens ducks and geese. The birds where raising Cain so was not sure what was up. Well low and behold there was a male Peacock in the pen and the other birds did not seem to know who it was. But any how I went in and got the wife and we got all the birds in including the peacock but sure have no idea where it came from. Earlier this even I noticed the horses where acting odd and I was hearing some odd animal well now I guess I know what it was but sure have no idea where it came from or why is came in to my bird pen

Mike (WA) · Jan 23, 2012

Might be like the livestock auctions where a guy brings cattle in with his cattle trailer, goes into the sale, and when he comes out, one or two old plug horses are tied in the trailer.

Or when we had a dog who had pups- we went out to the barn the next day to check on them, and there were two additional pups, totally different than hers- someone had "contributed" them. Dog didn't care- raised them all. Her pups were Dalmation/Rhodesian Ridgeback cross, the new ones turned out to be miniature collies. Gave hers away, but kept one of the collies, she lived 17 years.

sotxbill · Jan 23, 2012

I understand that they are very selective. Apparently you have a first class bird pen, or first class food, or something he likes.

ShadetreeRet · Jan 23, 2012

Peacocks do have a way of letting you know they are there. They have one of the goshawfulest voices I have ever heard. Is it a male or female? Better watch or your chickens will be laying colored eggs! LOL

old · Jan 23, 2012

It is a peacock not a peahen LOL. Now all I have to do if figure out how to get a peahen to fly in

Jim in Ma. · Jan 23, 2012

I have 3 P-hens and 1 male here. Gteat watch dogs - Nobody gets in my yard without tham hollering. They sound like a X between a baby and a woman screaming for help.

Don-Wi · Jan 23, 2012

We had a guy who owns a business next door call over to see if we were all right one day when I was just a little tyke. He thought he heard one of us yelling for help. Turns out it was the peacocks.

Donovan from Wisconsin

donjr · Jan 23, 2012

A few years ago, my SIL was raising a few of the old style 'Heritage' turkeys. My granddaughter went out to feed one morning and came back into the house and announced that one of them was out. SIL got up, and went out to chase and get the bird back in. He turned right around, came back into the house, got a rifle, walked out on the porch, aimed and shot the offending bird. It was a wild tom trying to get into the pen! He made a great Sunday dinner the next day.

LarryT · Jan 24, 2012

My daddy had a half dozen of those white Chinese geese. Scared the he** out of me. They would get hold of your pants lag and just beat the pajibers out of you. They were great at keeping unwanted guests away along with the wanted ones. You could here them honk for 3 miles and we never saw a grasshopper or tomato worm or squash bug. They also kept the weeds down pretty good but they were so mean I wont have them around. My grand kids would get hurt and their moms and dads wouldn't want to bring them over and my grand kids are my life. Them and their parents are the only thing their mom and I ever did that will go on after were dead and buried that can be looked upon and said that we did a good job at.

ohiojim · Jan 24, 2012

those peacocks are travelers,..had one once that wouldn't stay home, finally ended up at neighbors farm 3 miles away

Anonymous-0 · Jan 24, 2012

(quoted from post at 01:14:22 01/24/12) My daddy had a half dozen of those white Chinese geese. Scared the he** out of me. They would get hold of your pants lag and just beat the pajibers out of you. They were great at keeping unwanted guests away along with the wanted ones. You could here them honk for 3 miles and we never saw a grasshopper or tomato worm or squash bug. They also kept the weeds down pretty good but they were so mean I wont have them around. My grand kids would get hurt and their moms and dads wouldn't want to bring them over and my grand kids are my life. Them and their parents are the only thing their mom and I ever did that will go on after were dead and buried that can be looked upon and said that we did a good job at.

Don't know what they were, but the neighbor had some of the meanest geese you ever saw when I was a kid...... Only thing they wouldn't bother was a small kid, an old blind saint bernard, and anyone that just ignored them.... One look at them and they knew you was nervous and was thiers..........

1936 · Jan 24, 2012

Great flyers.

JRSutton · Jan 24, 2012

That was my thought too!

Peacocks make a LOT of annoying noises.

People get them for their pretty feathers - then can't stand listening to them howl.

I think THAT's what makes them good travlers!

DownSouth · Jan 24, 2012

Rich,
Pepe in the picture below flew in here about 15 years ago from a farm where he was being raised with other peacocks. That place is several miles away. The owner came over for the first few months trying to catch him without success. He finally gave up, and Pepe has just hung around here since. He never goes anywhere probably because he's well fed. His favorite food is dry cat food and he will chase the cats off at feeding time unless you give him his own food. In the spring he will court the chickens since there is no peahen around, and the roosters keep clear of him. He is gorgeous with his fan open, but in the spring time you will probably get real tired of him as he calls for a mate.....every 10 minutes or so....all night long. Yours will probably stay with the chickens so you may just have a new friend for a long time!

Fern(Mi) · Jan 24, 2012

I here they taste just like chicken!
Fernan

souNdguy · Jan 24, 2012

I'd have pea foul.. but they are too noisy.. evenmoreso than turkey..

soundguy

Mike (WA) · Jan 24, 2012

Dad was raising a goose for Christmas dinner when I was about 3 or 4- the thing attacked me, I started screaming- Dad came running out the door, grabbed the goose by the neck and never even broke stride on his way to the woodshed: WHACK!

Goose dinner was re-scheduled for that following Sunday.

buickanddeere · Jan 24, 2012

Something similar. We had the domestic broad bronze Tom and two hens in an outside pen. We would gather the eggs and run a batch every week in the incubator. Round about Thanksgiving (. Oct 31 ) we were loading the young birds to be processed. About half of them were long legged and scrawny Looking closer revieled the scrawny ones were half wild, half tame. Never did see or hear when the wild Tom flew in for free service.

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