Purple Peafowl

[QueenMisha]

A split is a cross between to different varieties of peafowl. Usually one color doesn't show unless it's White/Pied. Easiest way I can explain it is like breeding a Red Angus and a Black Angus and usually the calf will be a Black Angus but contain the Red Angus gene. I raise cattle so this is the easiest one I know off the top of my head. My winters in Idaho are in single digits or low 10s and I have a Spalding peahen. To be specific she's a Spalding Split to White. See that small white patch on her throat. That indicates she's split to White or Pied. I say White since there's only that small throat patch and only 2 or 3 primary wing feathers are white. Though I haven't bred her to my White male yet. If I breed her to my White male I believe I can get Spalding White peafowl out of her or Spalding Pied depending on what she's split to.

Thanks! Now I understand quite a bit more.

 

[Birdrain92]

Good to hear.

 

[DylansMom]

Interesting. How cold tolerant are Spaldings? It gets to around 20 F. on the coldest days of winter here, but those days are rare, so the majority of winter the temperature is between 30 and 50 F.

Sorry, this is a dumb question, what's a split?

Most spaldings will do great in your area. As the % of green goes up the cold tolerance goes down, so I would avoid anything over 90% green and you should be fine. My 50% did fine last winter with no heat and we were at 0 degrees, with a wind chill I refuse to even think about now!

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

That's not as bad I was expecting. We paid $400 for our gorgeous white/pied pair, so $500 for purples doesn't sound too awful.

Peafowl buyers here will pay more for a white or pied, whites and pieds are the most wanted colors here.

Purple here almost cost the same price as india blue, and not many people will notice the difference!

 

[cateyes3]

I have a purple pied & wondering when it will begin to show color on neck

 

[Birdrain92]

I was going to ask how do you identify the difference between Cameo, Peach, Purple chicks and determine sex? I've never got much time to research with an accurate source on them. I can identify the adults but not chicks.

 

[Birdrain92]

I have a purple pied & wondering when it will begin to show color on neck

I've never raised Purple peafowl but if they are similar to Indian Blues then they will start to get color around 10 weeks old.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

This being a crappy year in general for anything that hatches, our purple pen was the tops. We managed to hatch just under 35 peachicks from this pen,which has a purple bssp male,,2 purple hens,1 purple pied hen,and 2 purple b/s hens. Got a LOT of purple pieds this year,,some with very little purple feathers,mostly white. Don't know why we've never had this wild of a purple pied show previously. I wish so much that ONE of the few purple chicks we kept that is b/s will turn out to be a male. We have yet to hatch out a plain purple b/s male with all the purples in this pen,all so far has been hens.

 

[KsKingBee]

This being a crappy year in general for anything that hatches, our purple pen was the tops. We managed to hatch just under 35 peachicks from this pen,which has a purple bssp male,,2 purple hens,1 purple pied hen,and 2 purple b/s hens. Got a LOT of purple pieds this year,,some with very little purple feathers,mostly white. Don't know why we've never had this wild of a purple pied show previously. I wish so much that ONE of the few purple chicks we kept that is b/s will turn out to be a male. We have yet to hatch out a plain purple b/s male with all the purples in this pen,all so far has been hens.

Interesting, my Purple pen was the most prolific this year too. Lots of Purple BS and plain Purple, and IB split Purple/ Cameo, I hear that is the building blocks for Peach. The pen is headed up with a low % Spaulding Purple BS cock and his harem has a matching Low% Spaulding Purple BS hen, an IBBS hen and two Cameo hens.