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Thanks, Alex! That's a definitive answer, then. Without a purple hen in the mix, only the hen chicks will be visibly purple, and any visibly purple chick must be female! Gotta love those sex-linked genes She is certainly a beautiful bird -- you did a great job picking her for me!

Me too! Her face markings are really special @Blue Creek , what color was the hen that laid these eggs? Is your chick a full sibling? (I guess they aren't chicks any more ) I'm tickled to hear you have one also. Diamond is also gorgeous -- totally different body profile. She's built like...

That would also pretty well pin down where the funky soft-shelled egg came from I keep looking at the photos of those hind feathers -- first time I have seen "her" have feathers shaped like that! Hmmmm.

Purple is a sex-linked color... I keep telling myself they could not have gotten the gender wrong... But noticeably more wispy today, and those spurs are growing, and those neck feathers, hmmm. But then I remind myself this is a spalding I haven't had those before (except for that bonehead...

Here's a photo of Topaz's neck feathers. Just starting to get color on the neck in the past few weeks... And here's the top shot that goes with those four spurred feet

Here's a few more photos. I noticed today that she is definitely getting wispier on the backend feathers... go figure. Topaz (the 2 year-old) is a higher percentage spalding than the opal SP. So I've been chalking it all up to spalding-ness. But these feathers are getting wispier

That's an interesting question, @barkerg , how do you tell the difference between the shape of spurs on a male versus the occasional spurs which occur on a female? Aside from the fact that a full grown male's spurs are bigger... Is there a different shape? Here's an interesting picture I...

So Gerald, it turns out that the bird @Tbonter101 is asking about is shown originally in posts #1 & 3 (but NOT in #2), and there are now additional photos of the bird in posts #18, 19, 20 & 21. (Hey Tbonter, you can put multiple photos in one post!). Gerald, here's some questions: First...

Pretty sure you aren't nearly the only one wanting greens really badly, @Birdrain92 . I love looking at them, but owning them is not for me. However, you are in very good company -- the list of folks here on the peafowl forum that really, really want them is longer than the list of folks who...

Hmmm, not sure who the seller was or where the seller may be located, but that picture is of an opal spalding hen, taken in Texas some years ago. Not sure under what basis seller sent you that photo -- maybe just to illustrate what the birds might look like? I'd be concerned if the seller...

Wasn't meaning to leave you out, @Birdrain92 , he just has those darn greens! But yes, you have spaldings too, as I now recall. I brought it up because that purple pied spalding peahen of mine has barring in her tail. So what do you think? Is that bird in pics #1 & #3 also a low-percentage...

I agree with @Dany12 that better pictures would be very helpful! @barkerg , if the bird is a spalding, what does that suggest about the barring on the tail feathers? (I had to click on the image to get it large enough to see )

Good eyes @Birdrain92 & @barkerg Not sure what @Tbonter101 was trying to say or ask us here, but those are not the same bird. I personally (speaking as a gardening person), was quite impressed with the lush green grass in Michigan this time of year -- last I heard it was still snowing...