Swamp chicken!

[Trey45]

I had my camera out in the back field today when they were harvesting the winter wheat. Got some pretty good shots. I was packing it up when the neighbor showed up. Took a few shots, this is one of the better ones.

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That's Pete from next door. He's a cool peacock. Loves to torment my dog. He was in the field eating grains of wheat.

[JeffinNZ]

I see a whole mess of fly tying material.

[Trey45]

A whole mess and then some!

[dpunch]

I have access to lots of peafowl, duck, and pheasant feathers. My father owns a game farm. You can see the birds raised at this link. http://www.bleueracres.com I do not know what ones are the best for fly tying. If anyone wants to work something out let me know.

[Duckiller]

Feathers from old birds. Peacock tail feathers are used for lots of flys. Male duck and pheasant feathers make pretty streamers. At an earlier time and place I would have taken you up on your generous offer. Now vision is weak and I only ty the simplest of flys. That is all I need now and you are too far away.

[Duckiller]

Should be noted that the next town over has an infestation of peacocks. They are loud and poop all over the place. They are protected by city ordinance. Don't think any city councilmen live anywhere near where the peacocks roam. I believe peacocks are worse than Giant Canadian Geese.

[RoyEllis]

...... I believe peacocks are worse than Giant Canadian Geese.

Naw, geese taste better than peacocks do....

[41 mag fan]

Heard they taste like chicken!!

[mold maker]

Does everything taste like chicken or beef?

[Hamish]

Does everything taste like chicken or beef?

Not Bacon!

[1Shirt]

Read someplace that peacock was considered a Roman delicacy.
1Shirt!

[shredder]

Read someplace that peacock was considered a Roman delicacy.
1Shirt!

Yup sure was. I would definitely roast one up, but not if it belonged to the nieghbors!

[blackthorn]

The onliest thing that leaves a worse mess wherever they go than a Canadian Goose is a Canadian Politician!!!

[beagle]

Loud...... My neighbor has three and is over a mile away from me. I can sit out back at night and hear them things hollering. My wife wants some but I keep forgetting./beagle

[Trey45]

I guess I don't mind the loud since he's only one bird, but if there was a whole herd of them, or would that be gaggle? I guess it would be loud then. Besides, I think the thing is beautiful to look at, and he's got a sense of humor, he stays just out of reach of my dog and will casually peck at the ground just on the other side of my dogs boundary. Meanwhile my dog is pacing back and forth and false charging Pete from her side of the boundary. Pete never flinches.

[GOPHER SLAYER]

Those buggers can do serious hurt to an asphalt shingle roof. They like to dig there claws into the shingles. When I was a boy I sometimes had to walk by a house where a peocock lived. The bird would sit on the peak of the roof and when I came by he would glide down to the street and try to attack me. I always managed to out run the winged menace but he left me with an intense dislike for the bird.

[wch]

Years ago I had Thanksgiving dinner at a hotel on Borneo; peafowl instead of turkey, rice stuffing instead of sausage and onion, pumpkin pie nowhere to be found!
The whiskey was good though!

[Jim]

I don't b'lieve I'd mess with Pete. He's got enough room under all them feathers to hide a sawed off pump gun! :shock:

[L Ross]

The neighbor's new male has been driven off by the previous resident males. So....he has decided to move to my property. They poop miniature cow pies! He's roosting under my leanto on my fire wood pile. We've had to chase him away from the tomato plants twice. I've been looking up braised peafowl online.

Duke

[Janoosh]

Not every fowl tastes like chicken.........some taste like spotted owl!!!

[wch]

The neighbor's new male has been driven off by the previous resident males. So....he has decided to move to my property. They poop miniature cow pies! He's roosting under my leanto on my fire wood pile. We've had to chase him away from the tomato plants twice. I've been looking up braised peafowl online.

Duke

Hell, just roast him like you would a wild turkey- and burn the feathers so nobody knows.....

[blackthorn]

Those birds make excellent early warning systems for when a stranger comes too close. My Dad raised them and whenever i tried to slip in late at night, when my friend's car pulled in the drive the dang birds started up---busted---!! One big male used to devil the old Gander we had. One winter the gander managed to get onto the peacock's tail so he could not get away and he killed the peacock! I don't know what those things are worth now but back then (mid fifties) they were real costly!

[10-x]

Our Grey would LOVE it.

[Smoke4320]

Loud...... My neighbor has three and is over a mile away from me. I can sit out back at night and hear them things hollering. My wife wants some but I keep forgetting./beagle

maybe the neighbor wants a wife ? might be able to make a good trade :) :)