Oh yes don't forget the white peafowl which are RARE albinos! I have no idea how white peafowl became thought of as a rarity. When you see a white dog you don't say, "Oh look at that rare albino dog!" although one girl once said that about our white dog.I will never forget being at the parrot rescue and this lady and her husband were visiting and they own a parrot rescue in another state. Well the parrot rescue here has a few peacocks roaming the grounds but they hardly know anything about them so I had been telling them that one was pied, etc. This lady who was visiting was trying to say that the white peacock was a rare albino and I explained that the white is just a variety and they are actually not rare at all. She got very defensive with me and disagreed as if I know nothing about birds.
Sometimes when I tell people that I have 3 white peafowl they freak out as if that is so rare. I have seen people price white peafowl at high amounts and I am guessing because of the misconception that white peafowl are rare albinos some people will actually pay a high price for some whites.
Don't forget about when you see green peafowl for sale on craigslist and they have photos of the parents which is a 50% spalding pictured with maybe a 10% spalding.
I say you should always bother to use the proper terms for peacocks such as peahen, peachick, peafowl, etc and then explain to people what it means. I think it is good to educate people even if it might seem silly to even bother.
Also it depends on your location as well. Such as Western Idaho is more into cattle not peafowl so when people saw my White peacock in school they would say how did you find such a rare bird? Or how did you get it to become White? I had one person tell me there's no way to have peafowl tame enough to perch them on my arm. I showed photos and they said it was Photoshopped. I wanted to hit the person. The stupid thing was it was during fair when I had Thora at the fair. I didn't have her on my arm since I was near the carnival area not near Thora's pen. I feel like Scar sometimes.
I'm part of the Agriculture classes I can do a capstone which I just do and intern with someone and write a report and show photos and a bunch of other stuff. You can do other things but that's the main one in the Ag classes. For my Senior Project I wanted to sit at the front door of Walmart or some other popular store and do a survey on how much people know in Poultry and how many people knew about poultry and who didn't. After all there are a lot of questions people never thought about or just accepted a myth or never learned. Just to show how much people know about the poultry area. My teacher said,"I can't since I'm bound to get someone to argue and I would probably be a really mean person rather verbal or physical and get kicked out, or I would get someone who would give the an answer that I would insult them." I told them I would try to restrain myself as much as I could or I would do it for fun. For peafowl I keep my lid on, now if you were to be like one kid in my class that asked why do you have to kill an animal for meat why not just take the meat of the animal and let it go back to the field and let them produce more that way they don't have to die. Though now I have more self control since I've noticed more and more people are not as well educated in these areas. But when there is that one person that is higher up than the majority in that knowledge I'm happy that I don't have to start from square one. I like educating people but sometimes it's just beyond me how they couldn't find that out. My teacher did a test run and I failed it. I think if she were to do it I would rather last longer or I would pass. The teacher has known my family for a while so she knows what buttons to push to get me to crack. It only took three questions to get me to crack.
