Peafowl Varieties Chart

[connerhills]

Very good book .. Stephanie was the same person who done the first one for the UPA and we sold them for a while , then things went ???? She has been a member and on the BOD of the UPA a few years ago. She wrote and published this one a couple of years ago and can be ordered from her . Her email is [email protected] Contact her if any one would like to order a copy. connerhills

 

[Garden Peas]

Very good book .. Stephanie was the same person who done the first one for the UPA and we sold them for a while , then things went ???? She has been a member and on the BOD of the UPA a few years ago. She wrote and published this one a couple of years ago and can be ordered from her . Her email is [email protected] Contact her if any one would like to order a copy. connerhills

Thanks so much!

 

[Arbor]

Jade will always be genotypically (genetically) Spalding. It would take many generations of breeding for phenotype (visually) to become a jade bird that looks like an Indian blue - aside from colour. But, that being said, apparently there are no pure blues in North America anymore anyways, so why do we distinguish between blue and Spalding any more? It's because spaldings are available in many different degrees of blue to green ratio of genetic material. Sometimes I wonder if the hybridizing was worth it, but it was never in my hands to decide, the damage has been done, all we can do now is sort between the mud and the chocolate milk!

As for white, pattern, pattern, pattern! White is an ingredient for pied, also a pattern, therefore, it makes sense. No single copy of a colour mutation currently can be combined with another mutation to provide a new pattern.

 

[Birdrain92]

My aunt bought that for me for my birthday from some magazine she got in the mail.

 

[Birdrain92]

So roughly in North America it is just depending on which ones are closer to the Green and which ones are closer to the Blue peafowl. Well that's weird. Then is that now a Spalding has to have so much Green to be a Spalding or should we just acknowledge that all of our peafowl are Spaldings. Where did you find this interesting fact.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

I guess I am a bit late to this and it seems like the question has been answered. The jade peacock I saw was very nice and I have more pictures of him from my move recent visit. I purposely tried getting pictures of him this time. The spalding influence is prominent, and when you read the history of jade peafowl you will find that Brad Legg found this mutation in spalding birds. Once a spalding always a spalding. It is not possible to "undo" a hybrid. Arbor brings up a good point though.

 

[zazouse]

So roughly in North America it is just depending on which ones are closer to the Green and which ones are closer to the Blue peafowl. Well that's weird. Then is that now a Spalding has to have so much Green to be a Spalding or should we just acknowledge that all of our peafowl are Spaldings. Where did you find this interesting fact.

The bird that has any green blood in them no matter how far back or what they look like is technically a spalding and yes you should inform if you know and they want to know IMO, someone has to try and keep blues pure here in the states and the way folks are crossing them up that is getting to be kinda hard with folks selling birds as greens but are really spaldings or selling birds that visibly have green blood but are represented as blues

 

[Birdrain92]

That's what I try to do as well as keep Blues pure in my flock.

 

[Dany12]

Something important to say and remember also is that Spalding are not cold resistant! In some region for the free ranging it is something not to forget!
Peacock's feet are not ducks or geese feet !

 

[zazouse]

Something important to say and remember also is that Spalding are not cold resistant! In some region for the free ranging it is something not to forget!
Peacock's feet are not ducks or geese feet !

Dany12 IMO that would depend on the amount of green blood in them, i have some spaldings here they are from 2 spaldings that were from a green and blue cross and these birds do fine in the freezing cold and ice here .
Dylansmom has a gorgeous spalding lots of green looking characteristic and he seems to do fine in her fridged temps