Green Peafowl Information!!

[destinduck]

Thanks for answering my question Reinhold and casportpony thanks for the links if someone needs to have the actual testing done. Its good to know that if someone needed proof positive it is indeed available to be had. Wanted to know the answer to that one for a good long while. That is very good news indeed. Like I said earlier. If someone ever needed feathers from mine for a study or help the gene pool to help the birds. Ill pluck a few......but I aint paying for the tests

. Farmgirl I like when they have the " nice" gene included as well

So far so good here! Hope everyone and their birds are doing well. Shawn

 

[DMFarm]

Here's some info I would love to know. Leaving the sub-species of greens out of this question entirely for the moment.BTW. We can touch on this later of course

Is there a test that can be performed on a live bird to determine exactly wether the bird has India blue in it or not ? Spaulding or a pure green to be simpler. Maybe this it is not such a simple question to answer. Either way I have never seen this question asked so bluntly. Im thinking. No there is not. I would think most purity debates would end immediately.Unless the test is very expensive,complicated or both. Either way still wanted to know. I just dont want them to become extinct is all. Anyway I would gladly include my birds for any such study or breeding program to save this from happening. Thats about all I could do.

Shawn
There is no DNA testing that can be done to test for purity. The WPA try several years ago and all test fail. DNA work is splitted into several steps, there are the mitochondrial DNA, the nuclear DNA and the microsattelite DNA. And all 3 tests have to be made, before you can rate a bird as pure or unpure you would need DNA datas from green peafowl and there is no existing data bank of green peafowl worldwide.

 

[destinduck]

Thanks so much for your input Doug . Here lies that "rub" as they say. I often think of Resolution (Kermit) for questions like this. Hes probably already explained it in great detail a while back and I just missed it somewhere. Either way my head isnt gonna explode over it.

 

[leo7]

For an DNA test you need at first reference material from pure wild species, this is the first problem. Sample from old museums skins or springs are not to use for this.
The next problem is they have to decipher this DNA and this cost money.
In Belgium it is an institut they have the know how about this. In the moment breeders from Europe WPA and Aviornis member can test his Tragopans for one bird the price is 70 Euro. This are the information what I have.

 

[destinduck]

Thanks for sharing Leo7. I do rest in the knowledge that as long as there are people like yourself, Reinhold ,Doug and others that care about pure birds they will be around for a while to come. Edited Also for Doug, I finally got to see some Palawans in real life( your birds in your avatar ) at the chattanooga aquarium complex not long ago. They were stunning. I almost could pet them I was so close lol! Hope you're still doing good with yours. If you do get time post pics of them in the pheasant section please. Sorry if I got off track here.