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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
I also have been raising peafowl from 1980, thing is about spalding is that they are a cross breed, chicks from the same hatch with not all look the same. Some will take after the green,other after the blue. So u cant look at a bird and tell for sure its a emerald (75% green)or just a spalding that took more after the green parent. People call them emerald to get higher price for them.
So much better to know what % of green. Sure you know a 15/16 green spalding is worth more than 1/2 green spalding. Even if the 1/2 took after the green side.
Lots of the old terms are still used, but need changed. Like oaten and yes blackshoulder, with all the new varieties.
Blue Blackshoulders(soild wing) do have shoulders colored black, first patterns were in blue.
Opal Blackshoulder(soild wing) do NOT have shoulder colored black, their color is silver or grey shoulder.
Purple Blackshoulder (soild wing) shoulders not BLACK but color is brown sholder.
Oaten is just a cameo soild wing(BS)
Trouble with calling birds emerald is so many call any spalding that to get a higher dollar, no you cant alway tell by looking.
Like I have seen eggs on ebay listed as Java Spalding, which I think you know a Java is a pure green.
Just giving reason why a emerald is just a spalding. Its still a cross breed and will not breed true.
I know the old habits are hard to break, I still have trouble calling blackshoulder soild wing.
Heck we cant even get the spelling of spalding the same, some people spalding others spaulding. Reason we need national stardard of terms. Spalding came from the last name of the Lady who produced this cross breed.
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
I also have been raising peafowl from 1980, thing is about spalding is that they are a cross breed, chicks from the same hatch with not all look the same. Some will take after the green,other after the blue. So u cant look at a bird and tell for sure its a emerald (75% green)or just a spalding that took more after the green parent. People call them emerald to get higher price for them.
So much better to know what % of green. Sure you know a 15/16 green spalding is worth more than 1/2 green spalding. Even if the 1/2 took after the green side.
Lots of the old terms are still used, but need changed. Like oaten and yes blackshoulder, with all the new varieties.
Blue Blackshoulders(soild wing) do have shoulders colored black, first patterns were in blue.
Opal Blackshoulder(soild wing) do NOT have shoulder colored black, their color is silver or grey shoulder.
Purple Blackshoulder (soild wing) shoulders not BLACK but color is brown sholder.
Oaten is just a cameo soild wing(BS)
Trouble with calling birds emerald is so many call any spalding that to get a higher dollar, no you cant alway tell by looking.
Like I have seen eggs on ebay listed as Java Spalding, which I think you know a Java is a pure green.
Just giving reason why a emerald is just a spalding. Its still a cross breed and will not breed true.
I know the old habits are hard to break, I still have trouble calling blackshoulder soild wing.
Heck we cant even get the spelling of spalding the same, some people spalding others spaulding. Reason we need national stardard of terms. Spalding came from the last name of the Lady who produced this cross breed.
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