AIBU to want a peacock?

[Velvetdarkness]

First post but I'm a long time lurker and know the etiquette is to explain if your first post is in Aibu, especially in the holidays.



I love peacocks (peafowl really I suppose). You only see them at stately homes or estates but I'd really like one.

I've been reading up on it and apparently they roam a bit hence not usually being in built up areas, but they come back home like cats do.

I think having a peacock would be amazing, and there are ways you can stop them screeching (not cruel ways). You can also buy a cock for £55, or £115 delivered. (Hens are more expensive.)

OH thinks I'm mostly joking and that next door's cats would kill it.

AIBU to be seriously considering this? I live in a town but it's a quiet road.

[Pendu]

Oh wow I want one too!

I don't know about the noise - we have them wild near the house we have in India but I never heard them....

Saying that, I live literally a stones throw from a lake and I am soooo damn sick of the all night geese/ducks/swan noise and their shite all over my driveway and front garden.

[TheFlyingFauxPas]

Wild peacocks

[MrsUnderwood]

My mate saw a peacock get eaten by a hippo in front of a load of Brownies once. Bad times.

[blankpieceofpaper]

For the reasons outline above! As if the noise consideration was not enough, clearly they can potentially be aggressive to people and damage property.

I have my own concerns about cats shitting in other people's gardens and their killing of songbirds but that is not the issue here.

I would not want my garden being viewed as your peacock's 'territory.'

[lulucappuccino]

How would you stop them flying away? Surely you wouldn't clip their poor wings.

[acasualobserver]

He saw through my amazing mentalist powers when he came out of the loo and I asked him if he'd had a pee out of his cock.

This really made me laugh. Thank you.

[TrinityForce]

Peacocks can't really fly away - they can hover and gracefully fall down if you give them something high to stand on, but they can't get high up on their own to fly away.

[Velvetdarkness]

Lulu they just stay if they're happy. No clipping.

This guys website is a revelation www.browfarm.co.uk/peafowl/peafowl-information/are-peacocks-for-you/

[MiddleClassProblem]

hover and gracefully fall down

Are you sure that's not a cheap drone?

[Verbena37]

This is a little bit beautiful and a little bit bird freaky.....

[madgingermunchkin]

MrsUnderwood I just snorted tea over my laptop. I'm a terrible person.

DO NOT get turkeys. Bloody vicious, feral things that. just. will. not. fecking. DIE.

[TrinityForce]

nah cheap drones aren't graceful, they just belly flop to the floor.

[CantChoose]

They are very, VERY, noisy and eat EVERYTHING in your garden and all the surrounding ones. They might 'accidentally' get shot like my old neighbours' ones... ;) not by me I should add!

[FlyingElbows]

I love peacocks. We're moving soon and I'm very tempted to get some. My mother's response to my desire to have peacocks was "oh darling... you may as well keep werewolves!".

[TheFlyingFauxPas]

Sorry. Did you mean one of these?

[KickAssAngel]

Move to York. They have them in the Museum Gardens where they roam free. Every so often one of them wanders out into the road and holds up traffic. One time I saw one on top of a double decker, going for a ride around the city.

[liquidrevolution]

Actually 15 years ago one of the York peacocks ended up in the adjacent archaeology dept when it flew over a wall. It pulled all its feathers off and started attempting suicide by throwing itself off a tall staircase and not spreading its wings. Got taken off to a sanctuary for loony peacocks in the end. Evil thing it was.

It went mad because it was lonely. So don't get just one.

[WiddlinDiddlin]

If you want your neighbours to hate you, start a noise nuisance report against you, have your garden trashed and spend all your spare time looking for the noisey bastard things because they have buggered off AGAIN...

Yeah - go ahead.

There are some peacocks 3 miles from me, I can hear them most days.

They are just 2 miles from my Dads - he wants to shoot them.

Get some ornamental pheasants instead - better for a small space, quieter (relatively speaking) more garish in colour and every bit as stupid as a peacock, but probably nicer to eat when you get sick of them.

[Juanbablo]

I really hate peacocks. Birds in general are freaky but peacocks are pretty terrifying. Our local animal park has a lot of them roaming free and I hate it when they come up when I'm eating lunch.

When I was a child we used to ride our horses past a house that kept them and the screeching or sudden appearance of a peacock always used to scare the horses.

[Artandco]

There are a whole bunch living wild in a central London park. They are quite noisy, but friendly and they just roost in the trees at night.

[lljkk]

They roam wild in the town where my cousins live (yes, really). Very little screeching. Little flocks of peahens wandering around the sidewalks. They cheer me up, anyway.

[pinkieandperkie]

The other morning there were two peacocks in our garden. They stayed a couple of hours then went. They were beautiful and didn't make a noise. I just left them to it. They must have come from the farm down the road. I was hoping they would leave a feather!

[davos]

Yabu. I worked o. One of these lovely estates that had a peacock. It had to be removed. It was very agressive and kept attacking people, ridiculously noisy, shat everywhere ( which stank).

you don't want to let it roam. I have working spaniel, who would have it if it came in our garden. So you need to be worried about cats and dogs and it going in people's garden. Possibly cost you a fortune in ver fees.

You will need a specialist vet and it will be lonely.

It wouldn't be nice for you, your neighbours or the peacock itself.

[teafortoads]

All those evil eyes watching you shudders. Could call it Flo though. Might filter down to the masses and start a new egalitarian trend; flocks of peacocks strutting round council estates?

[Degustibusnonestdisputandem]

I was brought up on a farm in Australia (Victoria to be precise). When I was about 4, two peacocks turned up from another farm in my parents' huge gardens and didn't want to leave (despite many catch attempts!) so dad bought a few peahens and thus began our life with peacocks... They do call a lot more during mating season but they will call anytime of year. They also have a terrible habit of leaving 'presents' on your doorstep. . Peahens are also very aggressive if their young are threatened (this didn't stop the cats, however!). Ours were allowed to roam free, so not sure how keeping one caged would work...