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Thank you, very kind. So you seem extremely knowledgeable about the peafowl and genetics? Is this a profession or a hobby? Do you happen to know how to sex the chicks as well? I would love any information you have there. Thanks, Molly

I can't help it, I feel so ashamed! My birds are not the blue-bloods I thought they were. (head down...shuffling away). Now the three brown chicks, I can't see any w.f.fs on them(have'nt picked them up to spread wing yet), but I can assume its probably there? And I gather they will look just...

So the white wing feathers are significant? " Split to white" means he is not pure India Blue? You said "common" meaning? If either one of these birds were bred to a pure India blue, what would I get? Thanks

To bad your all the way in CA, I would do a swap.

Okay, this is excellent information, I just wish my brain wasn't so rusty on this stuff. I'll get it though-give me time. To answer your question, the six chicks are from the same hen and cock. Both my birds look like full India Blues.... though now I'm looking more closely and noticing white...

Now when you say w.f.f.- what is that? Maybe white wing feathers? Here are the 6 peeps today. Am I safe in assuming the 3 brown chicks will "appear" as solid India Blues? and the 3 yellows are Pieds? You mentioned a white and a pied gene? how does that work? Then, both my male and female are...

Tomorrow, Lucy(the hen) should start moving around with the chicks a bit, so I'll try to get some clear pictures. The white wing feathers and throat patch- would be on the adults? This is her with last years chicks, which both ended up as pied hens, primarily brown with white side patches.

Thanks, I love the genetics lesson. I'm printing it to keep as reference. So, there is no way of telling which of my birds carries the white or pied gene? And I will have to sell these peeps as unknown/pieds? I'm kinda sad- wanted India Blue chicks- to keep another hen.

My peafowl just hatched 6 eggs today. She is India Blue-by all appearances, and my male in India Blue. The babies from last years clutch ended up with a friend and they matured with pied markings. I was sure mine must have died, and she replaced them with Pieds. But Lo and behold! in...