I got a peacock!!!

[frozenthunderbolt]

Shot the little toerag in the neck with my .22 airrifle. droped in one shot using open sights I was stoked!

Skined and gutted him with a knife i made from a garden lopper blade and saved some fethers for craft projects and arrow flights.

Put him in the slow cooker (had to cut legs off to fit it!) and cooked around 24 hours on and off.

Ended up tasting lovely, if a little dry, and privided a RICH stock to make into lovely soup later. Fed my family of 7 + my G/F, provided lunch for my G/F and I, sandwidges for my siblings lunches and there will be the soup to come!

I love auntumns bounty

[red]

so what do they taste like?

[Bonniegirl]

Tastes like chicken!

[possum]

no it doesn't taste like chicken!
it is definitely a dry meat like turkey, but it has an after taste, even after being curried.
Says she with three peachicks in the fridge now that hopefully should be tenderer

[Bonniegirl]

no it doesn't taste like chicken!
it is definitely a dry meat like turkey, but it has an after taste, even after being curried.
Says she with three peachicks in the fridge now that hopefully should be tenderer

I was joking lol! Never tried it! All I could think of when I read the question was Terry Wogan!

[possum]

no worries, didn't think you meant it boniegirl, just don't want to lead the lesser hearted astray.

[Millymollymandy]

Are they wild in NZ then? Or is it one of your own?

[Archie]

http://www.nzbirds.com/birds/peacock.html

Can't believe it, but if they are a pest !!!!!

[frozenthunderbolt]

I would compare taste to turkey - dark white meat (if that makes sense), rather dry. This one had no after taste, but they can be a bit rank if you get them at the height of the cricket season.
This one however, had a crop FULL of my cape gooseberries (husk cherries) all of which were plump and ripe. it also had our olives, some fejoa and bits of the sparse remaining grass we have left in its crop!

Yep they are wild on our place and have been here for as long as i can remember. They are now at more manageable levels, but 5-8 years ago they were EVERYWHERE shitting on the deck (and everywhere else), and boy, if you think geese are bad you should experience peacock poo!
They used to absolutly devistate our olives, figs, fejoas, persimons, tamarillos, loquats etc. not to mention or vege garden!
But now are under controll - they have a big enough range that they breed and multiply it doesnt matter if we pop the odd one in the pot, and there arent enough of them left to absolutly total our crops any more.
It is a happy medium

[possum]

Are they wild in NZ then? Or is it one of your own?

They are not native to NZ, but there is a lot more of them here than in the UK, more people have the land to put them on and some have gone feral. The ones we shot were our own, I bought a pair to begin with and they bred

[Bonniegirl]

Years ago a work colleague and I used to say that "One day we would own land and that we would have peacocks strutting on the lawn!"

Well now I own land and have decided against the peacocks, even though I really wanted one! Instead I have pigs running around me lawn instead, much more fun!

[red]

they are a pest here too.. remember one landing on the roof of a nearby house.. the shrieking drove you mad, and then one day it met with an accident.. involving a shot gun. not many people were upset.

nope.. I wont be getting any to strut on my lawn!!!

[Millymollymandy]

I had no idea - in the UK you (well I) only ever see them at stately homes or in bird parks, so they are considered a posh person's bird, for decoration only.