Midnight Questions

[AugeredIn]

So, is there any way to distinguish birds split to midnight? Are there giveaways in the hens?

The bird below was sold as a blackshoulder split to midnight but is certainly darker in the neck than normal blues. The train is more blue looking.

 

[Choctaw Valley Farm]

I have a Blackshoulder Male split Midnight he looks just like a Blackshoulder now the hens you can not tell them apart Midnight B/S and Blue Blackshoulder look the same.

 

[AugeredIn]

Thats what I thought, this guy just must be slightly darker than normal. The picture does not show the difference well.

 

[Choctaw Valley Farm]

Visit this website and look at the MidnightB/S and Blue Blackshoulder www.texaspeafowl.com

 

[Resolution]

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This bird is a product of hybridization with green peafowl (note glossy and iridescent greater marginal coverts, elongated crest and slight scaling in neck).
It's beautiful whatever it's mutation pedigree may be.

 

[AugeredIn]

Now thats interesting! I never considered that possibility.

 

[bandbaustin]

I would say not a midnight, just looks like a dark blackshoulder. My midnight is a completely different shade of blue

 

[Choctaw Valley Farm]

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I don't think this bird has been bred to a green looks just like mine but I'm no expert and really don't won't to be. I have just bred and raised lots of Peafowl so I would say the scaling look on the neck is just how he's holding it. But I could be wrong, is his neck smooth?

 

[deerman]

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I don't think this bird has been bred to a green looks just like mine but I'm no expert and really don't won't to be. I have just bred and raised lots of Peafowl so I would say the scaling look on the neck is just how he's holding it. But I could be wrong, is his neck smooth?

I don't see any signs that its a spalding.

 

[AugeredIn]

Looking at him more closely I see no scaling close up. I think he is just a little different color blackshoulder. We will see what his kids look like in spring!