Post pictures of peafowl!

[peachick]

Love all the photos everybody!!
Doug - fascinating... does that silver pied hen have any green in her??? some of my spalding hens get quite a bit of green on their tails... I wonder if they will get eye feathers as they age.

I'll add a few more pics to this thread...
My BS Midnight - 3 yrs old

Here is a dirt bath photo... we used the tiller inside the birds pens... OMG they were so happy... you could almost hear them singing!! every single bird was laying down, wings a flapping, dirt a flying!

The flying hen photo Kevin mentioned....

 

[usschicago1]

I Love the Fllying One! Wow!

 

[Kev]

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Today I looked around some more.. here's a quote from Midnight history on Brad Legg's site:

The reason he sold the bird was that he had bought it as a Black Shoulder and as it grew it never colored like a Black Shoulder should. The bird was always much darker with no blue in the neck but had very dark eyes in the train.

OK here's a bit of history behind the bird in pics I posted. Several years ago I bought a quad of Midnights. The male had a little darker than usual neck but would always show blue, no matter how dark it looked. Not what I expected.. showed some breeders pictures of him.. had gotten private replies that they did not think he was Midnight. So I gave them to a friend as normal blackshoulders but also told him the history. He hatched and sold chicks from them and kept a few. Some of the males he kept grew to have "dark looking necks"(still having blue, just way darker) like on yours and he was so convinced these were Midnights. Then he visited a ranch he had sold a large group of chicks to and he saw the dark necked bird in those pictures I posted.

That's when we suddenly knew how a Midnight really looked.. was very shocking to us.. it is extremely different and they really do not have blue on their necks. All of them also have the exact same color and shading/shine as each other. I can understand expecting these birds to show some blue shine sometimes because yours does but these don't, full sun or not. This is why I had questioned yours being Midnight due to blue on neck.. I remember thinking that is how a Midnight looked until seeing those birds. My friend strongly suspects that "dark necked with some blue" birds are splits for Midnights, because that is how the male I got looked too, and he produced those Midnights along a few "dark blue necked" blackshoulders and blackshoulders with normal looking necks- fitting the results of a split breeding.

Also ever since this discovery, he was able to discover a color difference on necks that shows early(as soon as the shiny feathers come out) on midnight males and so far it's been 100% accuracy. Rest would turn out dark blue necked or normal looking.​

 

[Kev]

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Oh yes.. really love that pic.. how awesome is that!

 

[chickenzoo]

Not the best pic, but one I love...... the peacocks bossed the emu as chicks and still harass them,

 

[Lady in Blue]

Crazy Bird!!!!! there is still snow!!!!!

 

[peachick]

Hey Kevin .... explain this guy to me. Midnight blackshoulder... aprox 18-20 months old.....
is he white eye??
never seen a bs male color out like this.... he is getting more white instead of less white.

 

[Pavo Royale]

Peachick, that bird is so ugly I will drive all the way from Georgia and take him away so you will not have to worry about him anymore...and I will let you know later if he is WE.

 

[DMFarm]

Kat
He is not a white-eye I have seen this in a few blue mutations. I have seen bronze show this start out with a few white feathers and get more ever year not sure what causes it.

Kevin
The bird of BBB I'am 100% sure is midnight blackshoulder he is a 03 hatch he is not a split. I have seen him at Texas Peafowl several times this bird came from Leggs peafowl. I have seen midnight that are dark and some are lighter color. I have seen the original midnight BS when I was at Brads. I have a midnight silver pied sometimes he looks a little blue but he is midnight color.
Doug

 

[deerman]

Kat no he is not white eye, i have a bronze that had no white feathers, then his first molt got some like yours, this year he has even more, starting to look move like the first Bronze found. Here is a pic of him now. He gets more white with each molt, looks alot like a pied now, but he is not pied. sorry not the best pic.