A peacock had to be captured after it terrorised a 92-year-old farmer’s chickens.
Tom Walne, or Farmer Tom as he is more affectionately known across Suffolk, said the peacock appeared at his farm near Copdock on Monday.
While initially the bird was getting along with his chickens, things took a turn and the bird decided to cause mayhem and chase after the cockerels.
Male Peacocks change from being rather passive to immensely territorial during mating season. This is probably why it became hostile.
My neighbors raised Peafowl for over a decade as both food (meat) and feathers, which are rarher prized by clothier’s and hobbiests.
Personally, I hate Peacocks; their mating calls go on all night long and will ultimately make everyone hate them.
Sincerely, listen to this and then imagine it repeating every 10-15 seconds literally all night long between April and September:
I think this theory covers about 80% of the sudden change in behaviour. The last 20% can probably be attributed to the fact that cockerals are arseholes, so they might have also pissed off the peacock.
I’ve had roast peafowl and I don’t get the appeal beyond it being exotic. Turkey is far tastier
Yup, I can confirm this as well: They taste like a dried up chicken that sat in the oven too long.
They need slow wet-roasting or they’re like poultry-flavored balsa wood.
Pigeon’s much better. So’s quail.
My wife, as a child thought their call it was children yelling for help, before later in life realizing it was peacocks.
It genuinely does sound like that, they make a horrible noise.
Where I grew up, some of the rich assholes in the hills above town raised peafowl, which would escape and come down to the flatlands where peasants like me lived, and scream horribly through the night until the coyotes corrected the natural imbalance.
Props to the BBC for making the article picture look like a UFC promo.
Putting a video at the start of the article, that does not contain footage of the peacock or chickens, but rather an AI TTS of the article text and stock images, just pure evil
We need to get officer Nicholas Angel on the case.
No luck catching them peacocks then?
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BBC has about as much journalistic integrity as you could ask for. What’re you on about?
BBC is still run by appointees from the 14 years that Conservatives controlled the UK. It’s kind of shit at the moment, as well as being horribly biased.
