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Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 14 8:03 pm Post subject:

Piggyphile wrote:

Those are expensive alarm clocks...

Paying that much, I'd expect a snooze button that works.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 14 7:08 am Post subject:
i wouldn' give the noisy bloody things houseroom if you paid me!

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42207
Location: North Devon

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 14 7:42 am Post subject:
I think that most people keep them outdoors.

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 14 9:02 am Post subject:
The title for this thread shouldn't begin FS peacocks, instead, it should be FFS they've got peacocks ! If you're an insomniac or don't like your neighbours then they're great addition to your menagerie.

evie2

Joined: 29 May 2010
Posts: 2156
Location: Here

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 14 11:15 am Post subject:
Their call makes me very unhappy, I've even been known to cry the same applies to whale song A peacock made it's way to MILs garden, when my SIL saw it she ran round the house screeching 'there's an ostrich in the garden' she's from Nigeria. The owner was very happy to get it back, FIL was even happier it went home, he works nights.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35934
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 14 12:38 pm Post subject:
I'd love them, but it's the tedious old 'get this perfectly justifiable in all senses kind of poultry and I will divorce you' story again

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 14 2:53 pm Post subject:
I love the call of peacocks, its very atmospheric but its best heard from over half a mile away.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35934
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 14 3:15 pm Post subject:
And to be fair, that's usually the distance you hear them from, when they're escaping.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45519
Location: yes

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 14 3:24 pm Post subject:
i like the look of em and they can be quite funny but the singing is a bit much even a mile away

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 14 3:49 pm Post subject:
The Tudors had the right idea about them, didn't they eat them at Christmas pre turkey days? A tad pricy to eat though. https://moonridgefarm.co.uk/shop/guinea-fowl-peafowl/peafowl/?gclid=CKeI-tjylL0CFZShtAodzFMARQ

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45519
Location: yes

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 14 3:55 pm Post subject:
i did consider it with a couple of very noisy ones but they look a bit tough and gamey for my tastes tudor posh cooks did em as a center piece re dressed in the skin/feathers. the poor got cabbage soup and rat on a stick:lol:

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 14 4:04 pm Post subject:
Rat? Rat and cabbage too? They were spoiled rotten in those days. When I were a lad we had nowt but a mouse and the cheese that were left on the trap, if we were lucky.

MornieG

Joined: 17 Jan 2013
Posts: 933
Location: Bromham, Wiltshire

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 14 4:34 pm Post subject:

My Dad kept one in the back paddock behind the house for a couple of years and it used to tease my Sister's English Pointer. Stupid dog would see it and go into pointer position looking so darned pleased with itself, then the peacock would spread it's tail feathers and screech and the dog would run a mile and hide. It had to go, the peacock not the dog, far to noisy for the retired neighbours.

Mo.XX

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15600

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 14 8:06 pm Post subject:
I don't like the things. Working at a place that kept them for a year, nor did son after a while; noisy and dirty and with an attitude problem. Think with the people working there is was fortunate that none of the peacocks got their necks wrung.

Spruengli

Joined: 12 Jul 2006
Posts: 537
Location: Dorking(ish)

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 14 9:19 am Post subject:
I really like them and was keen on getting some eggs for the incy, but Circumstances Have Changed and it's not an option now

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