Holey moley, look at this peacock

[b.hromada]

Wow, thats different! What a beauty!!

 

[sweet tweets]

Wow, beautiful!

 

[BigByrd24]

It is hard to tell but it does look like he maybe White eyed. one of his eyes is white. ( Top left eye)

 

[deerman]

Java are all green, no pied or other colors in java.

Spalding pied yes, all silver pieds have white eyes.

He does have alot of white to be just a pied.

 

[deerman]

link to another loud pied, note no white eye

http://database.amyspeacockparadise.com/blue_pied.shtml

 

[spectrumranch]

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Here is some of our Pied Emerald Spauldings (high percentage of Java):

 

[deerman]

The term Emerald is no longer accept as a color by the UPA, changed back in 2005.

Any bird with green blood is spalding. What they did call emerald had to be almost all green. At least 3/4 green. People would call birds 5/8 emeralds, so now they are all just spalding.

No greens come in pieds, or any other colors.

 

[WriterofWords]

What a cute little Martian!

 

[Justino]

Wow now that is one super neat lookin birdy!

 

[spectrumranch]

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They were all spauldings then too, but the Emerald refers to a better quality bird. Any breeder that has experience with spauldings knows there is a wide range of color & quality.

Some spauldings can look very close in chest color to a blue india and do not have the individual chest feather apperance of the greens. By selective breeding and crossing back to Java green, birds with more green are produced.

In the 26 years I have had peafowl, before the peafowl assn existed, this is the way some spauldings were called.

The UPA (United Peafowl Assn) classifies them into one variety, as they do not specify the different qualities of spauldings. Thats like they list "Black Shouldered" as a variety not "Blue Black Shouldered" as I have seen in some of the posts. But there is no rule that says they can not be refered to like that.

Randy