Can someone tell me why the difference in pattern in my 2 IB boys?

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Widlast

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Hello all,

Here's a pic of my 2 supposedly pure bred Indian Blue peacocks, both about 4 months old (hatched 2nd week of July).
Why does the fellow on the left have black feathers mixed on his lower breast and the other have none?

 
Widlast said:
Hello all, Here's a pic of my 2 supposedly pure bred Indian Blue peacocks, both about 4 months old (hatched 2nd week of July). Why does the fellow on the left have black feathers mixed on his lower breast and the other have none?
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The one on the left has some Green peafowl blood in him. Very low % Spalding. Tight crest narrow face. Do you have more pictures of the one on the right?
 
2 Blue peacock .... pattern = barred wings.... so an IB peacock !
One is a little bit older than the other !

Here an example of wing that prove a very low spalding (10%) ! the wings are not like that !

 
His crest is not normally so narrow, his buddies have been trimming it for him. I have a spalding, 50% or so, the difference in the crest is dramatic. Here's another pick on the fellow on the right(my #2 male).
This is inside the new aviary I built for them.
 
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The shape of Crete is very changeable! We cannot judge that! Crete will be definitive at two years old!
What a long black neck!
 
Hello folks,

Thank you for your posts,
they have been quite helpful.

Widlast

BTW #2s neck looking dark is just a result of poor lighting.
 

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