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I've been out to check. All 12 of mine are safely roaming the grounds. Thanks for the heads up though.

I'm told they taste like turkey and would keep in the freezer until christmas

They taste delicious. What are you waiting for?

I hear the sound they make is quite haunting, ethereal and loud.

You'll find out tonight.

Know anyone who'd gut and pluck a peacock?

RSPCA also said you can deter it by making no food available... so do they eat overgrown grass and uncared for bushes then? Cos that's all that is in my bloody garden.

Oh I've heard the noise - last time the dog chased it. It's like a loud gooses honk with a strange echo at the end. Not the EEeeAOW! (sp) we used to hear at Leigh Park gardens in the 70s 😆

The eat Dogs..

Just sayin'

Know anyone who'd gut and pluck a peacock?

You, around 3.15am tomorrow morning

[i]The(y) eat Dogs.[/i]

Lol. My dog is a bloody savage when it comes to birds. 8)

Know anyone who'd gut and pluck a peacock?

Do you really care if it is the rightful owner who comes to claim it?
They are very noisy so may have been abandoned.
If the dog is regularly around (on its lead) will the peacock not move on by itself?
Local facebook group seems to be full of dog and cat found wandering the streets posts. Assume you will have something similar in your area - at least a peacock would add interest!

Lol. My dog is a bloody savage when it comes to birds

Oh well you’ve answered your own question then

You sure it's not just a big duck? Even more delicious!

Show it a yellow card.

I believe that's customary for a fowl.

Peacock was always scared of Mrs Slocombe's pussy.

[i]Local facebook group...[/i]

Good call. RSPCA obviously not aware of the internet age!

[i]If the dog is regularly around (on its lead) will the peacock not move on by itself?[/i]

Use the dog to scare it off you mean? Well, yeah, but it came back after she chased it last time. And the dog not settling is a big problem.
Just need rid of the stupid bird!

Protected species ??

Could be, be careful before you neck it..

The peafowl umbrella covers three species: green peafowl (Pavo muticus), Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus) and Congo peafowl (Afropavo congensis). The males of these pheasants are well-known as peacocks; the females are called peahens. Green peafowl are the only endangered species.

Nice one Percy 😥

Nice one Percy

Thanks Debz

The males of these pheasants

It's from the pheasant species?! No wonder the dog went nuts.

[i]Thanks Debz[/i]
Pleasure 😉

Know anyone who'd gut and pluck a peacock?

I think it takes fourteen people and they all need to be pleasant.

It's from the pheasant species?!

It's just a chicken with PR.

RSPB?

[i]RSPB?[/i]

Looked at the website - they're more about conservation.
There is a forum, so may join up and post a similar question.
Gonna put a lost & found on Facebook too.

Obvz is obvz but they normally frequent large open grassland estates, have you a “Land Owner” nearby ?
Posting it on FB will no doubt lead to all sorts of nut jobs coming around and claiming it’s theirs.. no?

RSPCA advice is to "keep the dog away"

Look forward to repeated 'You called the RSPCA recently, would you like to donate' calls over the coming weeks

[i]have you a “Land Owner” nearby [/i]

Nope.
Leigh Park Gardens mentioned earlier, is fairly close, but there's a motorway between there and my house. Maybe I should shove it in a sack, take it to the fields across the motorway and free it..!

We had some locally which had gone feral and were breeding. I quite liked them but several neighbours thought they were a nuisance so they were rounded up and sent somewhere "safe".

I still hear one now and then though but it doesn't visit.

I hate them. The noise terrified me as a kid.
Would love to eat one though.

There was a large brown spotted egg shell on the lawn yesterday too... nothing in it (except a small slug).
Just googled, and it was a peacock egg. 😯

You're sure it's not a Phoenix?

Do you live near Hogwarts?

Is it a cockwomble?

Their excrement is foul smelling too - reminiscent of cat / fox

Just shove it in a big jiffy bag and post it to Blenheim Palace.

IANAMOTRSPCAOTRSPB

Ring the RSPCA and tell them it's a Cat.

They will come out...bitch at you because its a Peacock.

Insist you thought it was a Cat.....they will then take it away.

It's there job, they beg enough.

PS Had this problem with a ferret, should of said it was a Cat.

Ring the RSPCA and tell them it's a Cat.

"Hello, RSPCA. Can I help you?"

"Yes, there's a CAT in my garden!"

brrrr

"Hello? Hello?"

" Hi, Is that the RSPCA? .....Yeah, there's this stray cat in my garden.....It looks lost and hungry.......well, it's laid an egg and is just flapping it's wings and honking like a goose......hello?......hello?"

Take the dog out there on the lead, that'll scare the hell out of the peacock. Do it enough and he won't come back

My parents used to have a peacock come into there garden every now and then. If I went over with my lab the peacock would take off and land on the house roof or something. It wasn't the most graceful of flyers. Used to come in every day for a while, then just stopped. Random

I'd ring Britain's Got Talent, cos if a PeaCOCK has laid an egg then you're on to a winner 😉

You anywhere near me? It's my turn to cook.

Maybe I should shove it in a sack, take it to the fields across the motorway and free it..!

We deffo need a selfie, just you and the Peacock in the Garden..

Ta.

I reckon it's from your Garden Ctr thingy and flew over the Motorway one night and has decided because you never visited it in said Gdn Ctr has decided upon itself to deficate on your Garden and terrorise your Dog and reproduce.. thereby annoying you, your neighbours and your neighbours neighbours..

Do you have a SO? Wife, Girlfriend or Grandma?? option no 3

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I've just half remembered that its bad luck to have peacock feathers in the house. Not sure if that's for the house or the peacock though.

Pretty, but as wittily suggested by woody2000, it doesn't have those feathers. It wouldn't fit in my garden if it did.
Looks like this
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no chicks just yet.

So you have a Peahen then?

BigEaredBiker -
So you have a Peahen then?

[s]Genius of the day prize awarded.[/s]

No, a cat.

No, a cat.

I thought you had a dog?

Peacat or Catcock

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You need to buy a goose to scare the peacock away, then a swan to scare the goose. Keep going with this logic until you have an Andean Condor

Does it have a collar on?

Sell it on eBay?

Keep it as a pet and call it Chris

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😆

Me and my peahen would look slightly less... erm... cool.

I'd ring Britain's Got Talent, cos if a PeaCOCK has laid an egg then you're on to a winner

Looked at the website - they're more about conservation

Wrong RSPB. You need the Royal Society for the [i]Prevention[/i] of Birds. It’s easy to get the two mixed up.

They’re currently running a Two Birds for the Price of One Stone offer.

[url= http://www.southglos.gov.uk/documents/Peacocks.pdf ]DEFRA or the police[/url]
Suggestions above are better though 🙂

Yday at 08:30 as I waited at the lights, outside Sunny Brentwood rail station, in the middle of town with loads of cars and people about.... a peacock walked, as bold as brass, right in front of the car.

It was an odd sight.... A mundane but busy urban environment with an exotic looking and quite large creature taking a stroll through the middle of it.

Quickly handed my phone to the lad for him to take a photo but we had to move on before he could take the shot, shame would have been a good pic.

We have (or had, not heard or seen him lately) one on our (housing!) estate, it was kind of surreal having a peacock meander down the street or sit on the roof. I've no problem with him, but then I did live near Warwick castle for a few years. Bunch of whingers on local FB group wanted rid but rspb aren't interested as he not an invasive foreign species & you can't legal just grab him & take him away as that's theft (even if you don't know who the owner is).

Still there 🙁

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Wring it's neck, get it roasted and donate the feathers to a local fly fisher who ties their own flies.

[i]Wring it's neck[/i]

You bloody wring it's neck! I'm too scared to get that close!

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He looks stunning and stunned TBH.

Make him your pet and call him Gerald or Milton..

Make him your pet and call him Gerald or Milton..

You know it's a lady one right?

Would need to be Geraldine or...erm... Milfton

bikebouy - Member
[s]He[/s] She looks stunning and stunned TBH.

Make [s]him[/s] her your pet and call him Gerald or Milton or something more appropriate for a girl..

FTFY 😉

Pet suggestions after I've mentioned the dog's fondness for decapitating birds. I ask ya.

Pet suggestions after I've mentioned [b]the dog's fondness for decapitating birds[/b]. I ask ya.

How big is your oven? would make a pretty tasty game pie if it won't fit in whole.

So, I went out.. and when I came back, the thing was honking. I go out to the garden...

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😯
Thing leaps over the fence from next door where it was having a drink from the bird bath and chases me away 😆

Congratulations. Are you the father?

Omelette?

http://www.endlesssimmer.com/2012/06/18/eating-oddities-peacock-eggs/

Have any of you lot advocating the roasting tin, had peacock? I have been informed it's not all that.

Friend of mine moved into an apartment (flat) in a country estate, there was a muster of peacocks in the grounds living quite happily. He had one of those briefly popular Volvo C70 convertibles. Must have been something in the curve of the door but one of the peacocks took a dislike to his reflection in it. Damn bird went wild attacking his car door and dented the hell out of it. He had it repaired and took to putting up wooden sheets, parking against a wall, no matter. Whatever he did the bird dismantled it and set about the car. 😕

Anyway, apparently, it's a bit tough... 😉

Good link km79. I has a plan...

Hang on, what if I crack open an egg to make an omlette and there's, like, a, you know, thing.. inside?

Awe... More than Cute, that’s bloody adorable.

I’m so made up for you both, it’s like you were made for each other..

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Candle the egg first, ie hold it up to a lit candle. It won't matter anyway, should be good to eat, if you get them in the fridge, that stops any chance of fertalized eggs developing.

Update! Heard the honking this morning from down the road - went and scooped up the eggs into a bag - one smashed and absolutely reeked rotten, so no omelette for lunch.
AS I was throwing a couple of bricks on the nest to keep her out of it, could see her heading back across the fences. I was shaking 😆
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Hid in the kitchen while she checked out the nest in a confused state... then she actually came looking for me!
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(yeah yeah, any comments about the skanky patio will be ignored contemptiously).
I think I'm rid at last though.
Weirdest thing, as I drove off to the rugby club a few mins later, I saw the peahen following some poor fella down the road and as I past, this track started on my iPod

Bonkers

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That antenna array on its head will enhance your DAB experience no end.