Thread: Random pest peacock

Originally Posted by Chelsea

Around the house and up near the barns and further down the back of the farm. Fairly skittish but big and slow birds so don’t always bolt. As soon as they see you coming to the barn they head off down the paddocks.

OK. Well what you have there obviously isn’t “wild” but don’t underestimate the potential for the flock to turn full feral and retreat to the bush and be very hard to hunt. Peacocks that get pressure eventually become extremely cautious, wily and observant. They have incredible eyesight and will soon learn to associate man with death when their mates go poof! in a cloud of feathers. If you end up staying there for a good while, your boy might end up having the perfect quarry to hunt. Getting close in to nervous peacocks is very hard but would teach him heaps.