Pics of my 5 peafowl... they are my spoiled babies....

[critters]

Above is my nearly 1 year old white peafowl...Her name is "Snowy"....short for Snow White
Below is my Black Shoulder Indigo Blue who I call "Jade", also @ 1 Year old...


Next is my third female a Java Green...pics aren't very good...her name is "Cleo"...



my last female is a Silver Pied Java Spalding ( front left) shown here with her 'sisters' ( didn't find a better pic...sorry)
her name is :Lacy"...Jade is back left....Snowy back right and Cleo front right...

and last but not least is "Blue" my male Pied Indigo Blue....he is 2.5 years old (all females @ 1 year)..


sorry some of the pics are blurred but I really don't take good pics as you can see and even worse
pic taker when they are moving...

I have posted these pic's as some of you have expressed interest in seeing my pea pic's...
ALSO....If I mixed up the coloring on any of them please let me know since my memory isn't
great and I may have mixed something up or forgotten what I was told when we had bought them...
........ hope you enjoy my babies....

 

[zazouse]

V

ery pretty birds,
your white looks like a male

 

[Mmmatt13]

V ery pretty birds,
your white looks like a male

X2

 

[zazouse]

Your blue looks much younger than 2.5 years, he still has his white belly feathers, is he supose to be a dark pied?

 

[Kedreeva]

They're very pretty! I think my favorite is the india blue hen in the second picture

As for the colors:

The second pic (Jade)is definitely an india blue female (and she looks split to something white, and judging by the pale color of her feathers, she's carrying the white eye gene), and your "java green" (cleo) looks like a silver pied (or else a pied with a whooooole lot of white). In the last photo I see (front to back, left to right), a blackshoulder hen (front left), an india blue split white or pied hen (back left), a white (I'd agree male) (back right), and a silver pied (front right)- and if the blue on the silver pied's neck is true to the pics, I'd guess it's a male india blue silver pied, but it's a little tough to see very well so don't quote me on that! haha I don't think your male is pied (don't see any white patches on him, just the juvenile white spattering of chest feathers the blues get), I think he's an india blue, and I'd agree he's probably closer to a young 2 years or almost two years, but probably not over unless you know for sure because you hatched him yourself.

 

[critters]

Blue may be younger than 2.5 years....when we got him the young boy (17-19 years old) said he was born in November and he was going to turn 1 soon....and we have had him for
over a year, so we are guessing at age. Regarding the white on his chest again we went by what the kid said, so on my part am glad he is not a pied!

What are you seeing in Snowy that make you all think she is a male???
We bought her and a male mate from a fellow in Tennessee.....the male had a "hooked" looking type beak....he was hit by a car.
I thought I had the two figured out as to who was who....also her 'spurs' are smaller and rounded and Blues are larger and pointy, sharp looking...

and ok, I think Cleo could be a silver pied......so I have no Java Green or Java Spaulding in any of them??

and the SIlver Pied ( Java Green) 'Cleo'.....the blue on her neck is very vibrant...she also has that blue on her chest..
.what makes you think she is a male?? her spurs are also rounded and duller, smaller.....

anything else you can tell me about my peas are welcomed....I only know what we were told and the people we bought
from could have told us anything and we would not have know the difference.

so Thank You for you replys and look forward to more of your input.

 

[DreamBird]

I'd think you white is a male too, judging by how the "train" looks like and his spurs too.
Then like Kedreeva said, front left in the last picture is a Blackshoulder hen.
"Cleo" must be a male, if there is the blue, but especially because I can see some barrings on the wings, which is exclusive to males from what I know.
You have no Green, for sure, but maybe spauldings you may have, I wouldn't be able to say for sure, the pics aren't clear enough to tell.

But they are beautiful birds !
I'm jealous.

 

[Kedreeva]

Blue may be younger than 2.5 years....when we got him the young boy (17-19 years old) said he was born in November and he was going to turn 1 soon....and we have had him for
over a year, so we are guessing at age. Regarding the white on his chest again we went by what the kid said, so on my part am glad he is not a pied!

What are you seeing in Snowy that make you all think she is a male???
We bought her and a male mate from a fellow in Tennessee.....the male had a "hooked" looking type beak....he was hit by a car.
I thought I had the two figured out as to who was who....also her 'spurs' are smaller and rounded and Blues are larger and pointy, sharp looking...

and ok, I think Cleo could be a silver pied......so I have no Java Green or Java Spaulding in any of them??

and the SIlver Pied ( Java Green) 'Cleo'.....the blue on her neck is very vibrant...she also has that blue on her chest..
.what makes you think she is a male?? her spurs are also rounded and duller, smaller.....

anything else you can tell me about my peas are welcomed....I only know what we were told and the people we bought
from could have told us anything and we would not have know the difference.

so Thank You for you replys and look forward to more of your input.

I'll try and take this line by line haha- It would be strange for your bird to have hatched in November because that would mean their birds were laying in october or if it was like november 1st, maybe the last few days of september. Since you're in virginia, and it sounds like you picked them up face to face, I have no idea how he would have hatched anything that late in the season- most birds I know of stop laying in July, August at the latest for our seasons (I assume it's opposite someplace like Australia, where their summer is opposite ours).

The reason we are saying your white is a boy is because the train feathers (the tail coverlets) extend past the end of the bird's tail feathers- in females, they don't do that. On the whites, unless he had them blood sexed (and I seriously doubt it) there's no way he'd have been able to tell you genders; probably was just looking to sell them and was willing to tell you whatever. Remember that he is a year younger than the blue male, so the spurs are not going to look as developed.

I personally don't see any sign of there being Java in any of your birds, definitely no straight javas. Spalding is any bird with green blood in them, any hybrid between a java and a blue... A pretty typical sign of having java blood is that their cheeks have a bright yellow patch. Here's a pic off Google to show you the patch- at the edge of his jaw.


Once you've had the blues for a while, you'll also be able to see that the face shape of a spalding, even the hens, is really different, they have a different shaped skull and beak. In the males, often times the barring on the wings, even in a barred wing male (as opposed to a solid wing/blackshoulder), will be replaced by the blue wing feathers of the java (like in the photo). Spaldings also tend to be taller/larger birds because the java greens are a larger species overall.

As for Cleo- I believe "she" is male quite simply because the females don't have blue on their necks. Not in any of the color mutations. So if there's blue on that bird's neck, it's a male. You can also look for the black and brown "barring" on the wings- no female over the age of 3 months has barring on her wings. Like I said above... a year younger can mean smaller spurs, so don't go by that- the color is a much better indicator. I have a 2 year old male that doesn't really have spurs at all yet... but he's definitely a boy.

Now... more pictures! *grabby hands*

 

[Kedreeva]

Oh, as for additional information- I'd be willing to put money on your india blue female actually being dark pied out of silver pied, and there's a good chance your white came out of silver pied as well. The reason I would say that is because it really looks like your hen is carrying the white eye gene- giving her that dusting of whitish color on her feathers. She's obviously split to something with white, and the fact that you have a silver pied as well would point heavily toward her being dark pied. You can check and see- if she has a white patch at her throat, then she's a dark pied.

If you pen her with the white when they are breeding age, and he's a white from silver pied and she's a dark pied from silver pied, all the eggs from that pen will hatch silver pied. Good way to tell the genetics of those two birds

A note on the whites- white is not actually a color, it's a mutation called "leucism". It doesn't mean your bird stops being a color genetically, it just means that color is not deposited on the feathers. So, in essence, white "masks" the color of the bird. So it really does matter what line the white came out of, in this case it would be different if the white was from any other parents except silver pied.

 

[critters]

Okay...looks like I need to get you better pictures for you all...

thank you for all the input and opinions Kedreeva. Will have to check Jade
the India Blue female and see if her throat has any white on it...to see if
she is a dark pied...maybe even a pic if possible.

ok...need to take more and better pics of those babies...

I guess Blue doesn't have a harem after all....