How do I tell the sex, if I don't know what kind of Pied I have?

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I bought two eggs from a man and he simply told me they were pied. Both hatched but one died and the other is doing great. I have three black shouldered peachickes that I put he/she with and they are great with him/her. I really would like to know if it is a male or female but have not clue what to look for and how old it needs to be to tell anything. The more I read on here about pied peacocks, the more confused I become.. :bow
 
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I will try to get a more recent one to post. It hatched on June 14 so it is bigger now. Thanks
 
I always thought a white peacock was female and a colorful one was male but what do I know! I assume sexing peachicks are similar to sexing chicks. I would look it up on YouTube!
 
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I read that with blackhoulders ones the male will get darker than the female... If so, I think I have two males and one female. But wondering about this little one
 
Too young in those pictures to even take a legitimate stab at the sex by visual means, and even harder on a color mutation like pied where the early visual indicators of sex can be blurred or even erased... Basically it's anyone's guess at this point about as accurate as flipping coin...
 
FluffyPuff said:
I always thought a white peacock was female and a colorful one was male but what do I know! I assume sexing peachicks are similar to sexing chicks. I would look it up on YouTube!
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White peachicks indicate a color mutation, not the sex... Peachicks male or female are arguably visually indistinguishable at such a young age, especially with a color mutation gene popping up...
 
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I will try to get a more recent one to post. It hatched on June 14 so it is bigger now. Thanks
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Since your Peachick was hatched on 6/14 I suggest posting some recent pics of it, and then keep posting new pics weekly as the Peachick ages. We have quite a few very experienced Pied Peafowl breeders on here that will eventually be able to tell you what sex your chick is.

IME with hatching Pied peachicks, most likely as your Peachick matures it will lose quite a bit of the yellow coloring on it's shoulder and upper wing areas and start showing more color and tell-tale markings there. Eventually there will either be some obvious barring (indicating male), or lack there of (indicating female).
 

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