Recent content by Windy L Rippie

Im gonna say Cock BUT that almost spade tail is a sign of Hen...spalding does throw a kink in there and Im not very knowledgeable on those. IQbirdtesting does dna for 10 bucks if you have any question. I have a white and silver pied and paid for the test (tho right after, an experienced owner...

Just wanted to come back for an update. Apparantly some info given about tail feathers is pretty accurate. Both my White and Silver Pied Peas are Cocks :) . I cant wait til their full trains come in, tho I know with their age it will be a couple of years.

I agree that the first is a Cock. The 'rusty' flight feathers is an easy way to tell Cock from Hen as well as.. notice how the difference in the barring across them. Cocks will have more barring while Hens will be darker with less barring. The second pic is your Hen :) CONGRATS

So gonna sound gross but do you have a pic of the poo? It could be respiratory. When you say sounds like a cat do you mean when squaking or her breathing sounds sometimes like a cat..like the purring? Could it be describeed as a low gurgling?

Ya mine has a neck about like the first picture....the pix here it's hard to see ...not quite 3 months yet. its 8-10 weeks. In the sunlight it looks like that first picture. I ordered test last night from IB so hopefully it will be here soon and results back :)

I was looking more before the age of two...more like 10 months to a year. Getting ready to order our dna test so that we dont have to wait...we have a white and a silver pied. Wanna know what we have so that I know do I need more hens or just a cock

So I have been reading quite a bit and I read a few post that said before the males get their long train, the shape of their tail display can help determine the sex of peafowl. If the tail display create the shape of a half moon or like a sideways C the fowl is a hen and if the shape of tail...

Thanks everyone! I look forward to posting and chatting with all yall :)

I am actually just on the boarder of west and middle TN :)

Definitely a rooster :)

Oh yes I have been looking into to them once I discovered the different patterns and realized it wasnt just a normal pied. I saw a BEAUTIFUL pic you posted..think it was called a Silver Spaulding maybe.

I was coming back to show ya what I have found. Those are beautiful btw. On Leggs peafowl site in explaining how the silver pied came to be, this is what they said.... The mantel or top of the shoulders appear silver as the peacocks mature. The peahens are the same pattern as the males except...

I am in West Tennessee...where Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee all meet :)

Oh and ya, after I posted this, I found the correction on the color :)

I am so new that I cant say wrong or right lol. I havent read about the silver coming at different times so will have to look into that. What led me to a guess at boy was that it went from zero barring to having barred feathers (I read that females lose barring while males gain it) and it...