Sexing white peas

[KsKingBee]

Are there any early tells for the green peas?

$13.99 IQ Bird Testing. That is what Gerald at Bobs Green Peafowl does with 100% of his Greens.

 

[ChicksnMore]

$13.99 IQ Bird Testing. That is what Gerald at Bobs Green Peafowl does with 100% of his Greens.

That's a handy site! Thank you!

 

[KsKingBee]

Just checking to see if I'm understanding the feather difference. Is it that the hens neck feathers have a tighter edge and the boys neck feathers have a wispier edge?

Blow this pic up and look at the fingerlike feathers. Cockbird.

 

[KsKingBee]

Other signs you can look for are a longer thinner train that comes to a point for a cock, whereas a hen will be shorter and blockier. A cock will have a whispy hurl at the base of the butt that hangs down. When they display a cocks train will make a point like a spade and a hen will be rounded. But the for giveaway at this age when the new train feathers are starting to come in is the tip of the train feather will be blockier, a bit wider at the end of the feather. Most two-year-old cocks (January, about 18 months old) will have a few eye feathers so you will know very shortly.

Hen pics; notice the shorter tail/train? Shorter legs also with a smoother rounded body appearance,

Yearling cockbird; triangular tips on the train feathers and hurl behind the butt and on the sides of train feathers.

 

[DukesDucks]

Thanks for all the info. All I can say for sure is that the 3 are identical so either all male or female. I'm happy to wait until next spring/summer to see how their tails grow in. I always smile when my older cock is in full display and turns around. Then his powder-puff butt in also on display.

 

[ChicksnMore]

Thanks from me too. Mine are around two months old...three white and five green. I keep watching them and looking for differences

 

[KsKingBee]

Thanks for all the info. All I can say for sure is that the 3 are identical so either all male or female. I'm happy to wait until next spring/summer to see how their tails grow in. I always smile when my older cock is in full display and turns around. Then his powder-puff butt in also on display.

You won't have to wait that long, they will be quite evident by mid winter.

 

[DukesDucks]

By mid-winter I am under 5 to 6 feet of snow.

 

[KsKingBee]

By mid-winter I am under 5 to 6 feet of snow.

You probably won't be able to find them.

 

[DukesDucks]

Finally caught one displaying. One my ducklings are less co-operative when I need to get pics. Male? Female?