Help sexing 3 month old peachicks!

When we had baby peas, my husband and I had no idea what sex they where, My daughter pointed out the obvious a white chest means a female. Ours are blue not tan, so not sure in your circumstance.....
Unfortunately our chicken supplier at the time was cheated by a breeder, some of our recent purchases where not vaccinated, they got sick and died, I think that's what happened to my beautiful baby peas, unfortunately they didn't live longer than 5 months. I cried and cried.

White chest doesn't always mean female. Young males also have white chests.
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This was my Indian Blue peachick is a male at 10 weeks. Do you have a picture of your peachick like my peachick is in this photo? It will help us sex the peachick. The barring like this indicates a male.
 
He has a ton of different breeds so he said it could be anything mixed with the IB... We were hoping for a hen, we live in the suburbs & would be able to keep a loud male...
 
He has a ton of different breeds so he said it could be anything mixed with the IB... We were hoping for a hen, we live in the suburbs & would be able to keep a loud male...
Males and females will both call. In the breeding season the males tend to call more often. If they're a lone they will call more often then a pair would. The call that goes hhheeeelllppp.....hhheeellllppp....hhhheeeellllppp, is a locating call. Both will sexes will call. Locating call is usually only done when they themselves are a lone or believe they hear another to let them know, "Hey we're over here!" If you want the least amount of noise from peafowl, in my opinion, is a pair that is penned together. I recommend a coop of 10' x 10' x 8' and a run of 12' x 12'x 8'. Peafowl are great fliers, so they will tend to wonder in an area they consider their territory. Clipping their wings tends to do more harm than good at times. The reason why is peafowl can still jump 8', tall enough to clear most fences, but not high enough to stay out of the reach of predators, making them easy prey. I'm not trying to discourage you from having peafowl, I'm just trying telling you what people in the suburbs have done with peafowl and what usually happens.
 
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It lives with 10 chickens now. We just strted intermingling them over the last week. Right now its medium in size as we have bantams and chickens of all sizes. "Blue" basically runs away from all of them & roosts up high in the run at night. We have noticed him hanging out near the flock while free ranging, but still keeping its distance. We're hoping as it grows larger theyll become friendly & that'll help. We have a huge coop and attached run as well as over an acre for free time ;)
 

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