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Subject: DCT / anyone - please help with my fighting peacocks

Author:
helen

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Date Posted: 08:45:43 04/28/09 Tue

The fights between my two 20 month old peacocks are increasing – they have had four bad fights in 15 days. The chasing and fighting started at 9 this morning and is still going on - it's almost 5pm. It normally finishes when they collapse gaping and exhausted. Saturday they went on fighting until midnight when it was pitch dark and I had to separate them. They clash in the air and have drawn blood from legs and I saw one today attacking the others bottom whilst he was fanning to the chickens – it looks very sore! The attacks are vicious. However, when they are not fighting they are inseparable: walking together, lying together; roosting together and honking if they happen to loose sight of one another. I knew they would be liable to fight in the spring, but I don’t understand why they then go back to being constantly side by side???? It makes the idea of rehoming harder as I think if I re-homed one; the other would constantly call and search. I don’t have the facilities to pen one for more than a day (as it was the pen i built for them as babies and is too small now). The fights are increasingly harmful for them and too stressful for me – These are my first peacocks and I am about to give up. I adore them and don’t want to try and find new homes for them.
Why the closeness as well as the fights?
Would getting peahens help the situation?
Shall I persevere or am I going to loose in the end ???
THANK YOU X

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Re: DCT / anyone - please help with my fighting peacocks

Author:
D C T --friendly poultry orthopedist
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Date Posted: 20:34:15 04/28/09 Tue

I keep on quoting the poet, Frost, who said "Good fences
make good neighbors".....and nobody seems to get it!!!!
In this case a couple of "secure pens" complete with
visual barriers is the ONLY solution.
Get peahens????....that would be something for them to
fight about. But if each is in his own pen with a peahen
and they can not see eachother there should be peace.
Otherwise there will be pieces

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Author:
Maxie
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Date Posted: 23:12:06 05/02/09 Sat

Hi Helen.

I think your only permanent solution is to rehome one boy and get one or two peahens for the remaining one. :)

I know it seems really cruel to split them up, but the one you keep will NOT call forever. :) My three lost their Mother and called for a couple of days...then they just got on with things. I also rehomed Colin's (my peacock) brother and it was fine...probably because I had the peahens to take his mind off it. :)

Don't worry, it's not the end of your peafowl road, but if you can't pen them up, I think you should do the rehoming thing. :(