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Subject: Are Owls A Serious Threat to Adults?

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Kent Justus

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Date Posted: 10:32:05 06/05/11 Sun

I'm new to peafowl and have a 1-year old male India Blue and a 2-year old Spalding peahen. I bought her about 6 weeks ago and recently turned her out to free-range with the male. She is calm and staying right with him but she wants to roost at night on the peak of my barn completely exposed. I do have great-horned owls around as I live in the country. How much of a threat are great-horned owls to adult peahens that roost like that? The peacock wants her to roost inside the barn loft with him, but 2 out of the last 3 nights I have seen her on top of the barn roof completely exposed. There is a night light on a telephone pole nearby so she would be able to see something approaching her there. I would appreciate any feedback.

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D C T--friendly poultry orthopedist
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Date Posted: 20:06:53 06/05/11 Sun

Some years ago I did not notice that there was a spot on
top of my flight pen where I had missed fastening two rows
of dogwire together. A one year old peahen was badly
injured so that she barely survived. Her injuries were
the kind that would come from attack of owl or hawk.
When a raptor attacks any long necked bird such as peafowl
or duck it wraps its toes around the neck to strangle it.
And the talons dig into the flesh. That peahen of mine
was fortunate to escape death. Perhaps something
frightened the predator away before it could finish the
job. The vet gave her a shot of antibiotic and I had to
hand feed her for a week while keeping one of eyes taped
shut until the eyelid recovered from paralysis.
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I live in a place where there are predators, both flying and
four legged so that my peafowls MUST be penned. I know that
in some parts of America peafowls live and breed in the
wild but NOT here.

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