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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Izzy on June 08, 2017, 04:23:56 pm

Title: Peahen
Post by: Izzy on June 08, 2017, 04:23:56 pm

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/peahen-causes-chaos-in-la-booze-shop-a3559296.html (http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/peahen-causes-chaos-in-la-booze-shop-a3559296.html)

Title: Re: Peahen
Post by: Womble on June 08, 2017, 10:40:45 pm

Not the right way to treat an intelligent and fragile bird I'm afraid  >:( .

Ours would have been easy to catch in a similar situation, since they'd have downed a couple of bottles the moment they went in  ;D .

Title: Re: Peahen
Post by: landroverroy on June 09, 2017, 11:29:02 am

Agreed - typical of someone who has no idea about birds and thinks brute force will solve anything.
Ours would probably have gone for something more edible like crisps or peanuts :yum: , but easily herded out of the door with a bit of patience, instead of chasing them all round the shop.

Title: Re: Peahen
Post by: Womble on June 09, 2017, 01:31:52 pm

Yup. Peafowl are incredibly hard to catch, but dead easy to shoo in the right direction as long as you don't make them panic.

Title: Re: Peahen
Post by: Marches Farmer on June 09, 2017, 03:27:40 pm

They were lucky the peahen didn't start flying - that would've made a mess!