Double Eyed Train Feather!

[nevsma]

I have had several peacocks with this, a blackshoulder, and an india blue. The birds were not related. The blackshoulder even had one that did not have the center dark spot, just the light blue. The double eye looks exactly like the one on your bird. They have always been one of the longest eyed feathers of the train. I always thought they were pretty cool too.

 

[ICallMyselfCherie']

Awesome! How beautiful! I have a guinea, and his feathers are so pretty. I always try to collect them around the yard, and I've found all sorts of interesting variations of his spots. Several times I've found feathers with little hearts on them!!

 

[MinxFox]

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I am glad you have seen this because now I can ask you: Will he have eye feathers like this again next year or does it not work that way?


ICallMyselfCherie': Guinea feathers are really cool. They are great for all sorts of arts and crafts. That is really cool about finding heart ones!

 

[PeepsCA]

Great pics, Thanks for sharing. Will be interesting to see if he continues to grow them each year and/or more of them each year.
How very handsome he is

 

[nevsma]

I am glad you have seen this because now I can ask you: Will he have eye feathers like this again next year or does it not work that way?

My blackshoulder lived for 17 years and I think he had the double eye every year, he only had one each year, never more. I saved all those from him because they are so unique, but I only have a few. It seems like that would always be the feather to break and not make it to the end of the season. My india blue had his first full train last year, and his train is still too short for me to tell if he has a new double eye growing in. I will keep an eye out for it.​

 

[MinxFox]

Oh that is so cool! I hope this is a permanent thing for Alto. I am definitely keeping that feather I might put it in a little vase or something in my room were I keep a few unique train feathers.

I wonder if when peahens see a double eye feather if they consider it as two eyes or one? I wonder if it makes the peacock seem more attractive?

Well ever since I got Alto I considered him a unique bird and now he is even more unique.

 

[trailchick]

The double eyes look like a little critter with that copper mouth under them in that feather when the train is down!!!


Since most of us on this toopic gather and keep our feathers, has anybody made a wreath like the thread in the hobbies section?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=588439

I would love to make some, but she used a straw wreath to put them on, & I'm 80 miles from hobby lobby.....

 

[MinxFox]

Ooh that is so creative! I haven't thought about making a wreath but I was thinking about sticking a bunch of peacock feathers in the tree.

 

[clinton9]

Hi MinxFox,
As Alto is wearing a retarded 1st adult plumage, caused by his date of birth being in autumntime, so he have to end up have the first train feathers have wrong colours and pattens , as feathers have double eyes per feather, and few feathers have half of eyes missed on webs, and fewer feathers have no eyes, this happened to birds with retarded immature plumages, which is replaced by 1st adult plumages that have little immaturily. Alto's body is being forced to make 1st adult plumage (caused by hatched in autumntime), but because body is not ready to make train feathers with correct colours and pattens, so Alto had to end up have shorter train feathers and few train feathers have wrong colours and pattens.

Alto's 2nd adult plumage will be 100% same as for Dragon, the train feathers with double eyes, missed half of eyes on web, plain green feathers, wrong-pattened train feathers will be replace by new normal feathers, with correct colours and pattens that are 100% same to Dragon.

Once the last 1st adult train feathers had been shed on summertime 2012, then there will be NO more adult feathers with wrong pattens & colours.

Also during springtime this year Ice may plucked Alto's train feathers, so the replacement feathers end up have wrong pattens & colours.

In 3 months time from now, Alto will mate again with peahens, so maybe the one of future chicks might grow into a IB peacock with double eyes in each train feathers, when as adult bird, or maybe a white-eyed IB peacock.

This future mutation IB peacock with double eyes on each train feathers, will look like this.

My drawing skill, using the mouse and my computer, is not very good and it is my first time I used a computer for drawing.

Clinton.

 

[deerman]

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Clinton...now i really like that.....Minxfox you may be able to work on that...but you will need to line breed to see if the gene is past on.