peacocks as pets?

[what..the?]

Noisy? Roam too much? Hard to look after? A pair locally need a home?

[grasscarp]

http://www.wikihow.com/Care-for-Peacocks
Sounds to be complicated and expensive, and unless you have a farm or large rural area outside not really fair on the peacocks.

[craft1948]

They cause chaos in York city centre. There is a park in the middle of York called the Museum Gardens which have peacocks. When they decide to go on a jaunt they bring the city traffic to a total halt.

[snags]

They make that horrible screeching sound and sh1t copiously. No thanks.

[tonyav]

What do they taste like ?

[grasscarp]

chicken (everything does). Probably rather hard to feather as well!

[chaptazbru]

I've been in York when the peacocks have gone walkabout ! To be honest, I feel sorry for them, they should be better protected imo.

[tonyav]

Bet you could sell the feathers grasscarp, well from the males anyway.

[craft1948]

I know chaptaz................they wander around the park and there's nothing to stop them strolling through the gates into the main traffic thoroughfare.

[hc4361]

Has anyone noticed that there is always a peacock screeching in the background of Midsommer Murders and Heartbeat? And doves coo-cooing.

Unless you have a lot of land, do not consider peacocks.

[what..the?]

well it seems they fly and jump a lot so unless you keep them caged in the whole time they tend to go walk about but with the general rule that they come home in the evening to their shed/coop

[chaptazbru]

My local RSPCA has one that roams around the site, but it's safe there as there's plenty of land.

[FredPuli43]

We had some that arrived 'from nowhere'; never did find out; which set up on the farm here. Agreeable to look at but we had to move them to the other end of the village because they took to making a very loud noise at first light, by the houses down the lane. They definitely need space; they're an odd sight in a farmyard, but they did have parkland next to it; and they can wander surprising distances for such a terrestrial species.Once they find somewhere to their liking, they don't go far, but they need a fair bit of space around them, at least 3 acres at a guess, there.

[what..the?]

3 acres right, good to know, thanks

[FredPuli43]

What's more, they're quite fussy about the space. Although we think of them striding sedately across large lawns, they like to have cover; trees and low shrubs; nearby, and 'ours' seemed to want somewhere to perch. One of them took to perching on the roof of an, admittedly very low, milking shed !

[lankeela]

Theres often one sitting on a fence right alongside the A11 at Eleveden.

[hc4361]

Peacocks will perch on very high roofs too. In their natural habitat they roost in trees.

[momac]

It's been a dream of mine for years to have peacocks nearby...I love the sound screeching or not..and have always said that if I won the lottery I would buy a big house and then get my peacocks...so!!!If I win tomorrow...they're mine.

[woofgang]

Noisy messy and grumpy when in season....... like a husband (runs away quick)

[what..the?]

lol

[B00]

And if that lot hasn't put you off....

http://www.dailymail....irds-struts-town.html