If you had to choose.............

[Mrs. Glassman]

I want a blue one!

 

[melissa508]

Java..hands down my favorite

 

[jqs birds]

No question Midnight.

 

[Hoosiermomma]

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I agree.....a pair of each variety!!!!

 

[deerman]

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I agree.....a pair of each variety!!!!

Thats alot, did you know there is over 100 variety, future could be 185.

I have 7 of the colors.
all 5 of the patterns.
I have over 25 variety

A bird can only be one color, but more than one pattern.

Like purple pied blackshoulder white eye.
All patterns come in most any colors.

 

[Kev]

Hmm.. I like several too much to choose one. Pied Spalding, Silver pied.. do really like Opal a lot. Was never impressed with Bronzes when all I saw were pictures of them but now that I have three of them with the two adults fully mature now... WOW. Definitely a color best appreciated in person.

Deerman, there's nothing to stop a bird from having more than one color as long as the color genes are on different chromosomes/loci though.. like for example, Opal and Cameo. Cameo is sex linked while Opal is not, this automatically tells you they are on completely different chromosomes so a bird can be homozygous for Opal and for Cameo/het cameo for the girls.. I keep waiting for somebody to do this.. or something similar. I wonder about Peach as it seems to pop up semi-regularly out of Cameo- what if it's a combinaton of Cameo and ??

 

[Drafthorsegal]

I had no idea deerman. Thats staggering when you do the math.

But I think peafowl are wonderful, regardless of the color. I'm partial to the standard color, but do think India Blues and then the Whites are gorgeous.

 

[deerman]

Kev, dont see how a bird being two colors could breed true to those colors. Know that happen sometime in pigeon, had a homer ones she was blue check one side, red check on the other side.
Would not produce young like her.

Now I know white can mask a color. Like a white from my peach silver pieds, those white would be peach but the white would mask that color.

 

[Kev]

Think of chickens. Black is a color, right? Lavender is a color too. Solid lavender chickens are simply black chickens pure for the lavender. On the exactly same idea, chickens have rose and pea combs. They are on different chromosomes so a chicken can be pure for BOTH rose and pea, which makes the walnut comb. For peafowl example, the fact that BS is on a different chromosme/loci from all color mutations makes it possible for a BS to be a purple BS.. another good example is what you said about White. The fact is White is on a different chromosome/loci from the other colors means a White can be a pure Purple, peach etc. IF and I repeat if, white was on the same loci as purple, then a white could not be purple also. But since we know a white can be a purple, this is proof purple and white are not on the same loci....

IF two mutant genes happen to be located on the same loci, then a bird cannot be pure for both. It's been said that Pied and White are mutants on the same loci, so that is why there cannot be pure-breeding loud pieds.

The bottom line is if two genes are located on different chromosomes then a bird(any animal or plant) can have both in the same individual. The visual results depends on how they look on whether one gene will dominate the other totally, or "mix together" to make a different color/trait or..... Pea and rose comb combining to make a walnut comb is a good example of a "mixing".

No breed test needs to be done on Cameo and Opal to know they are on different chromosomes as Cameo is sex linked therefore it is located on the sex chromosome pair. Opal is not sex linked so it is located on another chromosome. How a bird pure for both Cameo and Opal will look is not something anybody will know for unless it is done. Maybe they will look pale grayish with no shine on neck OR one will completely dominate the other like if Cameo is dominant over Opal, the birds will look Cameo.. or both colors will "mix", maybe look very soft washed out white due to both genes diluting the color..

 

[Chicks_N_Horses]

Choose a favorite peafowl? Impossible

They are truly one of Gods great and beautiful creations!!!!