Peafowl loose in bush. How to get them back?

A friend of mine had a visiting kid let 3 of her peacocks out. She is leaving the rest of her birds out in hopes that they lure them back. She is at a loss as to what else to do. She can hear them in the bush.

Any advice on steps she can take?

A trail of treat for them? How close can she get to them?

Find out were they are and try to catch after dark, it can be easy that way

Thanks Pops, I will let her know. At one point they were over 1 mile away, but yesterday she heard them in the bush close by. I have not heard any updates today.

Any word?

Apr. 2 - The hen is in, 2 boys still at large.

I was keeping a pair of peafowl in my barn for a neighbour who wanted to give them to his wife as a surprise on her birthday. I opened the barn door one morning and the peacock flew out - just like a jet, blowing past me. I closed the door to keep the hen in at least and wondered how I was ever going to get him back.

Put the peahen in a large dog crate - the cage type with mesh on all sides and put her in the centre of the barn with the largest door open. It took 3 days of me ignoring the peacock and avoiding the barn before he went back in to be with his mate. Probably the only other peafowl in the Chilcotin. I was able to close the barn door and catch him and then threw a tarp over him and put him in a similar crate so he couldn't escape.

I hope you friend's birds return - I think a good sign that only the males are out. Bet they get tired of their own company and come looking for a female.

wow heda! good job, I can imagine that to have been real trying. Learn patience fast I guess.
on that catch.

Well I REALLY didn't want to face the neighbour and tell him I'd lost the surprise for his wife's birthday! Call me highly motivated....

heda gobbler wrote:Well I REALLY didn't want to face the neighbour and tell him I'd lost the surprise for his wife's birthday!  Call me highly motivated....

lol for sure!

They all came back. It helped that they were calling back and forth. They also apparently missed their cracked corn.

Wonderful! in the end domestic birds and animals prefer free cracked corn to liberty. I suspect humans are the same way.