Post pictures of peafowl!

[Randee]

Hi guys this is Gene. A comment was made the 18 month old with the white feathers is not in direct sunlight. If you look at my pics I believe in page 5 or 6 that Kevin posted that bird is in direct sunlight. Look at the BS along side of him. So with all being said it looks to me that at the age of 3 they photographically change. Do they get more irradescent like an india blue as they get older? My blue necks get all different colors from a rich or dark black to purple all depending on how his neck is set and how it is setting in sun. My young blues not so much. Could this be the reason your 3 year old look like splits in sun when photographing and the younger birds do not? There is a definate color cahnge between my BS split and my india blue. It is not photograhic. Every pic of my bs split he looks like any of your 3 year olds. His neck will never be the color of these 18 month old birds. When I learn how to work this better I will post pic of my bs split.

So Doug if you take a pic of your boy without a flash and no glare from the sun is his neck going to be army green like the 18 month old or possibly slightly darker but still army green?

So next year that bird will be 3 that is posted. Are you telling me that he will no longer be army green at 3? and what about the theory of their is only 1 midnight color?

 

[patyrdz]

My boys are just turning two.

 

[Kev]

Doug,

Kevin the different between the bird of BBB and the picture you posted is Gene bird is still young. Here is a picture of my midnight he is the same age as BBB bird you can see a blue tint in him that he didn't have when he was young

How interesting! I wish someone would have said that way back. That is something I was not aware of. It was just really confusing to see Gene's birds looking very different with no blue and then seeing pictures of Midnights showing blue.

Thank you for the new information and to others also for the discussion.​

 

[peachick]

Here is a photo of my 3 year old midnight bs male at 6 months old.... yep, army green

 

[Randee]

Hi guys again. Yes that picture would of been extremely helpful days ago, or if anyone would of said they were army green at 2. It is very apparent to me that peacocks take beautiful pictures and accept for whites can be very confusing. I talked a man who has been raising peacocks for over 30 years and we came to the conclusion that BS split to midnight was most likely a midnight. When I spoke the man that raised this picticular bird from 5 months old that he was never army green so he is definately split to midnight. I am anxious for next year when the 2 year old midnight that I have been taking pictures of is 3 so I can see what he looks like with my own eyes instead of a camera. With everything that we have been talking about the conclusion I have come up with like blues, bs the aredesent of the male neck feathers gets greater with age. I have an india blue pied that I am sure I can photograph and convince people he is a purple. The neck colors are spectacular in sun. My midnight split does not photograph like the blues and I know he is a split because I know his history. So can splits be more than one color? I guess it is in the eye of the beholder or the camera man. Time will teach us all.

Gene

 

[Randee]

Hi Guys

This is my black shoulders split to midnight. This is male that produces midnights. The one pic was taken yesterday but the date stamp is wrong. It sure does like like those midnights posted!

Gene

 

[wyndski]

Here is mine. He showed up from a neighbors a few years ago and basically lives at my house with my chickens. He sleeps in a different neighbors tree and is back every morning.

 

[Choctaw Valley Farm]

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I haven't figured out how to post pictures yet, but go to my website the Buford Bronze page and look at my white bronze at the bottom we do not use him for breeding don't want to pass this on to any others.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

I have mine in a Photobucket account Steve, I think the all have to be in a HTML code to post them on here.
Hey box that boy up and send him this way if you dont want him!! A few of those pied spaulding wouldnt hurt my feelings either

 

[deerman]

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I haven't figured out how to post pictures yet, but go to my website the Buford Bronze page and look at my white bronze at the bottom we do not use him for breeding don't want to pass this on to any others.

Yes I am trying to lock that into a line of Bronze, cant find any bronze hens like that.

Funny thing alot of breeders that dont like the bronze turning white, but trying to breed bronze in silver pieds. Whats up with that.

Its not the same as the cameo that turn white. Which is a lethal gene.....Saw the pic. of the very first Bronze , a outstanding peacock.. he also turned white with age.

Wouldnt trade my bronze peacock for two of the normal bronze.

Hope to one day to breed them in color body with all white train. Seen that in pigeons.