please post some pics of your peacocks

[birdboy508]

i love peacocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Dany12]

The color is Blue and the pattern is silver pied.
A peacock is ALWAYS determined by one color and one ... or more pattern.

 

[zazouse]

 

[zazouse]

Yep my crazy birds do the same thing, will chase a stray cat down the road or a coon in the woods.
They chase off the deer and hawks as well.

 

[MinxFox]

Current birds:
Ice my blackshoulder peahen

Damsel my Pied Peahen

Alto my India blue peacock

Peachicks: four whites, 2 dark pieds, one pied.
Little white

Dark pied and pied female chicks

Peep

Peep when he was younger:

Three whites (when they were younger)

Birds that have passed on:
Pip my India blue peahen

Dragon my pied peacock

Runaway bird:
Fire my India blue peacock

 

[Mahonri]

I don't own this fellow, he roams the entire neighborhood. Here he is perched on my back fence.

He can really fly...

 

[AquaEyes]

Quote:
Purple-Midnight BS was a project someone else PM'ed me about, so again, we'll find out in a few years. If someone started with Purple BS Spalding and Midnight BS Spalding instead of Purple BS and Midnight BS in non-hybrids as a parallel project, we could find out in about the same amount of time.

The phenotypes from breeding Spalding to Spalding will vary, but within the offspring, selection could be made in favor of maintaining characteristics intermediate between the green and blue parent species, or favoring the green parent species in higher-content hybrids. I'd safely assume that using founders with a very high percentage of green blood would diminish the potential amount of expression of blue characteristics -- if the parents are each only 1/16 IB, then the highest possible percentage of IB genes offspring could possess would be 1/8 (the full 1/16 from 2 parents = 1/8), and that's only in the minute chance that each parent contributes EVERY SINGLE IB gene it had, and each of its Spalding ancestors did the same with each generation of breeding back to a pure Green.

In reality, phenotypes of offspring from species-hybrid X species-hybrid fall along a Bell Curve, with the majority maintaining an intermediate appearance, and only the minority at the tail ends expressing the extremes from either parent. This Bell Curve will grow more steep towards the center with each successive breeding back to one particular parent species. In other words, the range of phenotypes from a 15/16-Green Spalding X 15/16-Green Spalding will be less extreme than those from a 1/2-Green Spalding X 1/2-Green Spalding. Simply put, the high-content hybrids have less and less genetic information from their IB ancestor to show up in their offspring, so the odds of strongly IB traits popping up diminish as the percentage of IB blood diminishes.

Breeders of other species utilize available mutations as paints in their art. Perhaps in a few years we'll see more peafowl breeders who aren't averse to dogma about what can and can't be put on the same canvas.

 

[JordanFamily]

I love the brightness of the IB .... Seems we can play with the colors but nothing is as bright and beautiful as what Nature has done on its own...
Here are some of my birds.
Purple and white cocks and IBPied cock with some girls :

White:

Purple and a IB Pied cocks:

IB Pied cock :

 

[BuckeyeAmy69]

Peahen cheek to cheek with red fox.

She's saying "Come at me bro!"

 

[BuckeyeAmy69]

I love the brightness of the IB .... Seems we can play with the colors but nothing is as bright and beautiful as what Nature has done on its own...
Here are some of my birds.
Purple and white cocks and IBPied cock with some girls :View attachment 2140930
White:
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Purple and a IB Pied cocks:
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IB Pied cock :
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WOW, some gorgeous peafowl and some great photography. I am impressed!
It takes a while to load this thread but the wait is worth it.
I will add a few of our favorites from our current flock.
Pretty Boy, BS Silver Pied

Abby (who was named at two days old b4 we knew his sex) a Pretty Boy son

Smokey, Charcoal white eye, he is awesome and he knows it. A wonderful, big boned charcoal!

BS Silver pied chicks

Harold, Bronze white eye

Tonga, Java girl

Stryker, IB split to Bronze

Abby again, notice his heart shaped eyes in the tail. Like his father the Pretty Boy.

Cammer Man, Cameo white eye

Pearl, showing off that Girls can strutt their stuff too. White split to BS Silver Pied

David, 2 year old BS Midnight. He is just getting better, gorgeous color.

Cain a BS Bronze male doing what he does best with the Bronze Girls.

Vincent, Peach White Eye. Photo of him at 2. Only photo I have of him on my phone. You ought to see him now. WOW.

Smokey, Charcoal white eye. I can't stop looking at him. Did I say I am crazy about this guy?

Sugar and Spice, two young hens from our Bronze pen

Wow. Your birds are drop dead gorgeous!