Peafowl Varieties Chart

[Birdrain92]

I think the Indian and India Blue is roughly nothing more than tomato, tamato. I was thinking because I've seen people list White peafowl under both pattern and color and I was thinking how can it be both. Then I thought well White peafowl have created the WE, Pied, and Silver Pied. So maybe the White has all of those genes in one while have it's color white as well. I'm pretty sure that I'm probably wrong but it was just an idea that was going around my brain.

 

[KsKingBee]

Like a little thought swimming around in a fish bowl. Around and around until it comes to me.

 

[Rosa moschata]

Great job, MinxFox! The only suggestion I could think of right now would be the elimination of the word "mutations" from either side. Simply put "India Blue Patterns" and "India Blue Colors" instead, since what you're illustrating isn't necessarily individual mutations. For example, Pied as shown isn't a mutation -- it's a pattern derived from two different mutations. Same with Silver Pied, but that includes White-Eyed. On the color side, Peach is not a mutation, but rather the results of Purple and Cameo together. If you put Indigo on there, that would be another color derived from two mutations together.

It's a minor detail for the chart, but there's a big difference in how it's interpreted -- listing them as "mutations" implies that there's just one gene change responsible for how each is different from "normal" India Blue.

But, again, excellent work!

 

[MinxFox]

Good news everyone! I thought that maybe I was having issues showing my image full size because of image size restrictions this site might have. I was right! I made a test web page and loaded the image on there. I clicked on it and ta da it got really big! Now I will be working on making a page for variety chart illustrations on my website. I will also be making edits to the image based on several of your suggestions.

Once I have it up on my site you can see all of the peafowl up closer to see if I got the colors right. I might need to make a smaller version for people to see the overall color differences because when I say it gets big when I click on it, I mean it gets really big, which is good, I wanted to preserve the details but I might need a smaller version to go with it.

Okay here is the page I made for the chart: http://bamboopeacock.com/Peafowl_Varieties.html
As you can see, I still need to make edits of it, and I think the variety name needs to be larger so that in the preview image you can read it. If you click on the image, it will get really large and you can scroll around to see each peafowl variety up super close.

 

[Arbor]

One question, should the silver pied male not have all w/e in his train. Just something I caught on a glance. Looks great on your website, nice addition!. Not that my opinion counts for a whole lot, but glad to see you put white as a pattern.

 

[MinxFox]

From a distance it looks like he doesn't have any colored train feathers, but on the large view when you click the image he looks like this:

 

[Rosa moschata]

What Arbor is saying is that Silver Pied peacocks have all their ocelli with white in the center. True, there can be color in the tail, but even the colored ocelli will have white in the middle (the "PacMan eating the feather shaft" part), since they are Double Factor White-Eye.

 

[MinxFox]

Ooh okay thank you I didn't realize that!

 

[Garden Peas]

What Arbor is saying is that Silver Pied peacocks have all their ocelli with white in the center. True, there can be color in the tail, but even the colored ocelli will have white in the middle (the "PacMan eating the feather shaft" part), since they are Double Factor White-Eye.

My very favoritest tail feathers on my opal SP are the really, really rare ones that have just a little tiny bit of pale opal on the fringe with the round white eye and all the rest of the feather al white - just soooo cool looking

Almost all of his tail feathers are pure white, and only a very few of them have any color at all... Okay, maybe (yes!), I'm biased, but he is such a pretty bird

And yes, Rosa & Arbor are right, of course, all the eyes are white on SP's.

And I don't know how to describe it, since the white "shades" are so similar/identical, but the white oceli just somehow look slightly different from the rest of the white feather. I am wondering if that part of the feather would somehow look different under a microscope from the rest of the feather, including even the white part of the feather just outside the white "eye"? Maybe there is some difference in the feather structure that makes it look almost like a different shade, somehow...???

Your chart and your illustrations are totally fantastic, by the way

Awesome job!

 

[Rosa moschata]

It's a minor detail, but it's apparently the difference between being Single Factor or Double Factor White-Eyed. The SF birds will have some ocelli with dark centers, while the DF birds will have white centers in all ocelli.