Posted by Susan on 11/5/2009, 9:21 pm
Hi all,
Well, I thought it was my turn to lose an animal tonite. I usually count my peafowl at night to make sure they are all there when I lock them up at night. Well, tonite I only counted 10. Dang! So I counted and recounted, and recounted again. So then I had to hunt down a flashlight and search CCH to make sure there were no dead bodies. This is a main reason I dislike daylight savings time. I have to care for my animals for 4 months or so in the dark, and it makes my work 25% harder. So no bodies, and then for sure I knew she must have gotten out. Silly me, didn't even think about the peafowl flight feathers growing back, and that should have been my first concern when the guinea started getting out. I think even with clipped wings my peafowl could have still gotten out if they really tried. So one last count. 7 in peafowl pen, 2 in the guinea pen and 1 in the guinea coop. So again, I check all the corners in the guinea coop and behind the hot box, but, ya know, a peafowl does kinda stand out..lol...And then, as I was checking the roosts one last time, I happen to glance through the "window" opening that separates the now chicken coop from the guinea coop, and I saw a peahen head sticking up who was sitting on the roost over in the chicken coop. What the heck! How in the heck did she get over there? I was momentarily confused! The only thing I can surmise is that she did get out (obviously), and I had let the chickens out tonite and had the people door propped open, she walked right in with them when it got dark to roost because she couldn't figure out how to get back into CCH. She had never been in this coop before or with these chickens. This was the first night I let the chickens and ducks out all week because it was the first night I got home right from work, and it gave them a half hour outside anyway. Serendipity all right. The funny thing is, I didn't see her in the yard before that, nor did I see her go in the coop, altho I was out at the barn I guess when she went in there. So it is great she did that, but now I have to contemplate clipping the peafowl wings...oye!
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