Well, I don’t think I will have to get that peacock horn after all because all of the peafowl seem to be back home. According to a rather unpleasant email from a neighbour, they had been roosting on their roof for a few days. I did a bit of research and a bit of thinking and have realized a few interesting things. Firstly, during mating season, the females can be rather coy and may try to get away from the showoffy males; secondly, the females may be looking for places to lay eggs and nest; and thirdly, it isn’t that hard to shoo them away if you have a water hose.
Today Ming went over the road to the neighbour’s and actually ‘mustered’ the few that were still there back home so I am hoping they will stop wandering around the adjacent farms and settle. This remains to be seen but I have suggested to the complaining neighbours that they continue to hose them away until the peafowl get the message, or else simply ring Ming again.
Apart from King and Queenie, our two adults, we got the rest as non-sexed chicks so it wasn’t until they grew up that we realized we had a ratio of one male to one female (which means we have an overabundance of males). So we may need to re-home some of these males and I have made some enquiries, not because of the traumatized neighbours but because I think the peahens may be a little overhwelmed by all the male attention.
Anthony is coming home at some stage on the weekend so I hope I will have sorted things out by then because he loves those peafowl as much as I do now. After today, Ming is a little disenchanted!
jmgoyder 
and the neighbours complained… shame… they should be honoured your peafowl decided to pay them a visit…
The neighbours should feel lucky that they have such beautiful birds visiting 🙂
Your neighbours need to chill out a bit!
I imagine the poor peahens would be exhausted by all that male attention!
Have a nice weekend dear Julie, love, nia
pesky neighbours – I have a few of those–but many good ones
you could have lots of birds walking the property with that many males!!! LOL, not really funny though, but i can picture it
This post made me smile — one of my daughters favourite books when they were little was, Peacock on the Roof. Must go get a copy of it for their Christmas stockings 🙂
thanks!
I’ve never heard of that book – sounds good!
Glad they were all found safe. 🙂
You’re throwing off the feng shui of peafowl:). One male and a harem.
I’m really sorry that we are not going to see the peahorn. I was looking forward to that.
I’ll find a picture of one.
I would love to have peacocks come visit my roof! What an honor that would be! I do hope they start behaving themselves for Anthony’s visit.
As a child we had a couple of visiting peacocks for a few days and then they went away. I loved them.
I don’t know…after all that honking and screaming they do…It’s amazing they perch on rooftops. I have a friend who lives deep in the woods, and she says they perch in the trees and dive bomb the snakes. She says it’s a funny sight. They are entertaining.
You either love them or hate them. Re snakes, we have never seen one since we got the peafowl.
I don’t understand why some people feel the need to complain in a nasty manner when they will get more/better results usually if they let you know what is going on in a nice manner……….I have one neighbour who will always get agro instead of speaking nicely…………..
Ditto!
one way to get to know the neighbours. Ha! at the guest ranch I worked at, I was about to feed the chickens, sheep geese when I saw the neighbour’s bull in the yard. hope the birds didn’t mind me being a bit late…recovering Jane
Bulls are scary! Glad you are recovering.
We have a neighborhood peacock – Krishna came here because a neighbor had a female – she died a few years ago, but that male is still here. He’s gorgeous and we all love him:)
Krishna sounds gorgeous.
He’s spectacular – He’s a little camera shy. I see him in the woods occasionally and loves to look at himself in the Grange’s glass doors 🙂
Gosh, in what world is one male to one female a bad ratio?
Yes and, naively, I thought they would just pair up in a civilized manner!
Some people just don’t appreciate nature 😦
Hope all went well with the visit.
I’ll have to remember the waterhose! That’s a good tip.
A piece of erudition unilke any other!