ID my peachicks please?

[DylansMom]

Do Spauldings always inherit the Green-type crest or do some have normal crests?

I think it probably depends on the percentage of green blood. Mine are all 50/50 and they all inherited the green type crest, as the % of green decreases the crests probably look more like the blue crests.

 

[AugeredIn]

The tight crests and the scalloped neck feathers on the males stay until the green blood gets real low %.

 

[Cindysid]

Not to hijack your thread, but I saw somewhere on the forum where they showed the different neck feathers of ibs, spaldings, and green peafowl. Now I can't find it..can anyone direct me? I have a 3 month old Spalding, and I carefully examined his neck feathers today, and now I can't find the thread. Thanks

 

[zazouse]

Not to hijack your thread, but I saw somewhere on the forum where they showed the different neck feathers of ibs, spaldings, and green peafowl. Now I can't find it..can anyone direct me? I have a 3 month old Spalding, and I carefully examined his neck feathers today, and now I can't find the thread. Thanks

That was on an old locked thread, babies don't get their true colors till they get older, many changes will be seen as they molt all the different feathers, it is indeed a learning experience to see these changes, at least i think it is, i love how the scales of my IB's go threw many colors that will never be seen again on them EVER

Minxfox has lots of info on her website, check it out

 

[MinxFox]

Not to hijack your thread, but I saw somewhere on the forum where they showed the different neck feathers of ibs, spaldings, and green peafowl. Now I can't find it..can anyone direct me? I have a 3 month old Spalding, and I carefully examined his neck feathers today, and now I can't find the thread. Thanks

Okay the following are not my photos, just photos mainly off of various feather websites that I found useful:


Note that Emerald basically means very high % spalding (they have more green blood, but are not green). The term emerald spalding isn't used much anymore. Today a lot of 'green peafowl' are just high % spaldings. Just recently I saw someone promoting their birds as "rare Java greens" and I could tell that they were emerald spaldings because of the neck color. A real green will be just that...GREEN. They might look a bit different in different lighting, but they generally will be green. Spaldings will have a blue shine and their scale feathers hardly ever look as defined and clean cut as green peafowl's scale feathers. This photo shows neck feathers.

Comparing a lower % spalding to a higher %. Notice how on the Emerald Spalding feathers, there is a black triangular shape at the end right before the blue. Green peafowl have this triangular feature on their neck feathers too. The difference is on green peafowl, this triangle is more clear cut and it is solid black/blue rimmed with a vibrant shiny blue. I will show you what I mean next...


Note the triangle. Also note how perfectly solid the neck feathers are. India Blue neck feathers look almost like fur or hair. Green peacock neck feathers look like fish or reptile scales.


I am not sure where I got the first photo, but I owe The Feather Emporium for most of these wonderful feather photos. Here is a link to their page of Java green peafowl feathers. They sell all feathers shown: http://www.featheremporium.com/Exotic-Feathers/peafowl/java-green.html

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Does that also explain the different shade of brown?

-Kathy

 

[MinxFox]

Yes most spaldings and all green peafowl will be a darker brown compared to India blue peachicks. They will also have grey legs and not pink legs.

 

[casportpony]

Yes most spaldings and all green peafowl will be a darker brown compared to India blue peachicks. They will also have grey legs and not pink legs.

Interesting color. Looking forward to getting eggs from my new spalding girl next year. Might have to look for a proper mate for her.

-Kathy

 

[MinxFox]

I like how spaldings and green peafowl color out when they are young. They seem to get colorful looking very quickly...
These are young greens (Rocking BAB):


I want the greens but if I was into spaldings I would want blackshoulder spaldings but only because of what blackshoulder spalding peahens look like. I just love all of that pattern (texaspeafowl):