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Subject: What little I know about this.... Author: D C T --friendly poultry orthopedist [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 08:48:10 06/09/09 Tue In reply to: helen 's message, "peacock in a trance??" on 08:37:28 06/08/09 Mon There was a documentary filmed in India. The peacock put his head down and the peahen ate the ticks that were infesting his neck--to the mutual beneifit of both. ------ But this behavior is also to prove to peahen that he has friendly intentions. A peahen can take advantage of this and remove the peacock's crest feathers as I have observed here in my own pens. Or worse--yesterday I introduced Tinker/Stinker to a two year peahen named Peawee. She began pecking him so violently that I decided to get him out of there while he still had his eyeballs!!!! [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> Subject: Re: What little I know about this.... Author: helen [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 10:25:47 06/09/09 Tue Thank you so much. He always does it after displaying his fan so it makes sense that it is all part of the same ritual: that he is displaying that he has friendly intentions. It is also interesting that i have seen his brother looking VERY closely at the crest of the one in a trance - I did wonder whether he might peck at it. Today i observed them both with their heads lowered, staring into each others eyes as if in a trance! When they do it they are completely motionless - it is strange to see in such active birds. I hope your Peawee is more friendly to some of you other peacocks.