How Do You Catch A Peahen

koolkate · **Joined:** Thu Oct 22, 2009 9:28 am **Posts:** 6

We have a small dilemma.

A couple of weeks ago, we introduced a peahen to our boy to keep him from straying during breeding season. She was to stay in a courtyard with high fences with a clipped wing but unfortunately she still managed to escape and fly away [smilie=a_doh.gif]

. She eventually turned up ten days later at our neighbour's property where they have two peahens and a peacock.

We're glad to know that she is alive and well, but now our boy has followed her over there. We bought another peahen for him but the entire time the other bird was missing, he was still calling out into the area she disappeared into. He did show some interest in the new peahen but now she just spends her entire time pacing up and down in front of a tinted window. I'm beginning to think that maybe she's just a tiny bit to young for him (she's two and the other girl is three. I think our boy is three) and she's used to having other peahens around. The neighbour's male was chasing our boy home and he would come back for a few days but he eventually goes back. The other male appears to be becoming more tolerant of him.

My question is - does anyone know of a way we can catch our peahen humanely without upsetting our neighbour's birds? Our neighbour doesn't want to lose her birds' trust by chasing them all around, which is fair enough. She has already lost one bird that flew into a window a few years ago.

We will be keeping the peahens penned for a while. The male is a different story. He just turned up on our property one day and moved in so he has never been penned. It's difficult to entice him into one, which is why we originally went with the courtyard idea as he'll go in there. We hadn't planned to have peacocks so we are new to this and are flying by the seat of our pants, but I can say we have learned a few lessons! We're aware that unless he's penned there's no guarantee that he'll stay, but we'd like to at least give it a try

Bourke · **Posted:** Sat Oct 24, 2009 10:50 am

I saw your question and new I had seen the answer someware & here it is
viewtopic.php?f=44&t=2385&p=29473&hilit=trap#p29473

And on PA's site their is this
http://www.peacocksaustralia.com/catchingpeafowl.html

Bourke

koolkate · **Joined:** Thu Oct 22, 2009 9:28 am **Posts:** 6

Thanks for your reply, Bourke. It's very helpful.

Our boy came back this morning a funnily enough he followed the female we have here into a pen for the first time ever with no dramas, so we'll keep him there for a while. Now all we have to do is catch the other female and bring her back, too.

Two down, one to go

villageboy · **Joined:** Thu Oct 22, 2009 1:33 pm **Posts:** 5

Have your neighbour's got a chook coop you can use to catch your hen

koolkate · **Joined:** Thu Oct 22, 2009 9:28 am **Posts:** 6

Yes they do. They just have to get her separated from their own birds.

Welsh Harlequin · **Joined:** Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:23 pm **Posts:** 4

When we moved house I used the garden shed to catch them, worked perfectly. I put some grain just out side the door for a few days then just in side the door after that. I had a string line attached to the door and pulled it closed when they went in.

Bourke · **Posted:** Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:03 am

Did you catch her???????????????????????????????? or is she the Scarlet Pimpernel

Bourke

koolkate · **Joined:** Thu Oct 22, 2009 9:28 am **Posts:** 6

Hi Bourke

Because the neighbours don't want to upset their birds, we've given them the info from this post and left it up to them to try and catch her, but I think it's time we just went over there and caught her. They're taking too long.

I'll let you know when we have her :-D

Cheers

K.

poultry77 · **Joined:** Wed Sep 23, 2009 12:04 pm **Posts:** 12

I lost a peacock to a property 500m away when I went to ask for him back they claimed he was theirs and they'd had him from 12 months but I know that was a lie because he had my ring on his leg, some people :roll:

koolkate · **Joined:** Thu Oct 22, 2009 9:28 am **Posts:** 6

We have decided to come to an arrangement with our neighbours and they're now going to keep the female. Due to unforeseen circumstances over the last few weeks, we now unfortunately have to sell our peacock and peahen, so it's not worth disturbing the other girl if they're happy to keep her.

So, we now have an Indian Blue peacock and peahen for sale - $100.00 for the two. I believe the male is around 3 years old and the female is around 2. They will be sold together.

Thank you to everyone for their help on this post. It will still come in handy when we have to catch these two

If anyone is interested in our birds, please give us a call - 07 5424 1888. We're located in Esk, Qld.

Kathryn and Will

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