how to catch a peacock

[apollo 9]

Dont know wether this is the right place for this but here goes, any suggestions on how to catch a year old peacok (escapee) that has been loose for 4 or 5 weeks .

The bird is being fed daily but the lady cant get near it.......

[john b 38]

I reckon a large version of the 'Danny Champion of the world' sticky cone

 

"First of all you dig a little hole in the ground. Then you twist a piece of papaer into the shape of a cone and you fit this into the hole, hollow end up, like a cup. Then you smear the inside of the paper cup with glue and drop in a few raisins. At the same time, you lay a trail of raisins along the ground leading up to it. Now, the ols pheasant comes pecking along the trail of raisins, and when he gets to the holw he pops his head inside to gobble up the raisins and the next thing he knows he's got a paper hat stuck over his eyes and he can't see a thing."

 

 

 

Aparently they just sit there.

 

 

 

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Over here I'd just bung it some Alpha Chlorolose and pick it up when it went down. But that's illegal in england. At least it certainly is for wild birds. Not sure about escaped domestics.

 

Anyway; Ye haven't got AC and I can't see ye getting any. Sooooo ..... Think Handcart!

 

I leave the rest to your own deviousness

[Squirrel_Basher 17,102]

Line it up in the scope and tell her her the fox had it .

[apollo 9]

Thanks boys, do you think you could set a fox trap sensitive enough to get it in.......

[Ricky-N.p.p 0]

longnet !

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Set a decent fox trap sensitive as ye like, mate. But do ye think it'd go in there?

[Madcowz 0]

Hire a Pehen costume and entice it with some suitable strutting and dancing. As soon as he gets close enough to do any damage/embarrassment grab im.

 

 

 

/mad

[gnipper 6,711]

Basically its a glorified pheasant so I reckon a pheasant catcher with a bigger funnel would do the job. That or throw his grub in a pen that you can close with a string or use the method I used for catching some bantams of mine,,,,,,, a whippet :whistle:

[Guest little_lloyd]

MAKE A BIG pyramid live catch pheasant trap and bait it up with his much

[martin 332]

Don't know if he was joking or not(says he wasn't)but a bloke I know has 4-5 peacocks/hens,and he said when you grab them their feathers explode :download: ,apparently it is a way of escaping predators??

[Spike01 0]

Gnipper is right. I had a job come in for catching some pea cocks. Made 2 big funnels and used them with one of my partridge pens. Took about a week to catch 5. Then I got paid!

[apollo 9]

Basically its a glorified pheasant so I reckon a pheasant catcher with a bigger funnel would do the job. That or throw his grub in a pen that you can close with a string or use the method I used for catching some bantams of mine,,,,,,, a whippet :whistle:

seems the way to go, thanks mate..............

[Guest little_lloyd]

Good luck Nearly had a similar scence today when i was asked to go into the college aivarys and grab a sweeping brush....I left the door open a touch And when i was walking back this green Kakariki thing ws flying of Spend all afternoon trying to catch that thing It was evently caught

[Vermin Dropper 2]

How close can you get to it?

have you ever used a cast net?