A peahen, or not a peahen ;)

[chicken jedi]

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This angel dropped by our chicken coop a year ago and never left, which we are happy about!!! I am almost positive the beauty is a peahen, but I am not a peafowl expert in the least . So I have come to you all for some help on the topic. I hope my picture attached ok, but if not let me know. Thanks!

 

[MinxFox]

You are correct it is a peahen.

Normally, now this doesn't work for all peafowl varieties, but normally when talking about India Blue peafowl (the basic variety) males will have barred wing feathers and peahens have the solid brown wing feathers.

I don't know if it is the lighting but I can't see green on her neck. Does she have green neck feathers? If she has some other color neck feathers than I don't think she is an India Blue peahen...
Here is an India Blue Peahen:
Neck feathers


Full bird

 

[subhanalah]

She just looks brown to me...could it be an immature one?

 

[MinxFox]

No she is too big to be brown colored in the neck and her spurs are too big. She might be some other variety I was thinking maybe a charcoal or a bronze peahen...Maybe even a purple peahen...

Could you get better photos of her neck?

 

[chicken jedi]

Thanks! I zoomed in on this pic to show she is brown, so what kind would that be?

 

[MinxFox]

Hmm I am not quite sure what she is...I don't raise any of the varieties similar to that so hopefully someone who has more experience with varieties other than the more common varieties will be able to know for sure, but in that second photo she does seem to have very light colored brown feathers overall, which now leads me to think she is a cameo peahen.

This isn't my photo but I found it on Google and I thought this cameo peahen might resemble your peahen:

 

[chicken jedi]

That's her!!!!!

 

[MinxFox]

Yay now we know what she is!!! Okay well now you can tell people you have a cameo peahen.

What a find I have yet to have a peafowl show up at my place even with three peacocks calling this year. I guess there aren't any runaway peafowl around here.

 

[chicken jedi]

When she first started hanging out here she was very very timid! It took us a month to ease her into being within 20 feet, then sweet talked her into the winter coop with her buddies our chickens come winter since most of our winter was below zero!! Now she comes up next to us with no problems so we think she is here for good

. She is definitely one of our family!!!

 

[zazouse]

I think your hen is a bronze, very pretty girl.