Purple Peafowl

[Peafowlssssssss]

I was talking about adults for sure, if you want purple then gets purples from @KsKingBee , his birds are beautiful, a spalding purple black shoulder peacock are my favorite from the purple color.

 

[KsKingBee]

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Now I need to take a picture of him today, ugh, washed out brown bird. Thank goodness they molt.

Woke up this morning with Poppa P and the girls out with the free rangers. I didn't latch the gate last night.

It is overcast as there was a big blow that came through and it is still cloudy, 80% humidity and 96* will make it a bit uncomfortable today.







What a difference five months make! he is the only one that I wish would drop his train and start molting.

 

[Birdrain92]

Let me know when you are ready for some Purples, I have lots of chicks from my Spaulding Purple Black Shoulder pens. Some are BS, others are not. Leggs sell their day old for $50 in straight run, but no guarantee of color, min of eight chicks per package.

Do you have just regular purples? If so I will have to hope you will still have peafowl for a long time. Fall 2016 I'm moving to South Dakota and hoping to attend South Dakota State University so I can be a Veterinarian. Once I get a farm after graduation and working for a bit I would like to have at least 27 peafowl. At least 3 varieties: Indian Blue, White, and Purple; 3 males per variety, 2 hens per male. Hope to have around 35 Black Australorp hens with a couple roosters, 15 Indian Runner ducks with a couple drakes, not sure how many Gelbvieh cattle, some horses probably Quarter Horse, few Border Collie dogs, and few outdoor cats.

 

[KsKingBee]

Do you have just regular purples? If so I will have to hope you will still have peafowl for a long time. Fall 2016 I'm moving to South Dakota and hoping to attend South Dakota State University so I can be a Veterinarian. Once I get a farm after graduation and working for a bit I would like to have at least 27 peafowl. At least 3 varieties: Indian Blue, White, and Purple; 3 males per variety, 2 hens per male. Hope to have around 35 Black Australorp hens with a couple roosters, 15 Indian Runner ducks with a couple drakes, not sure how many Gelbvieh cattle, some horses probably Quarter Horse, few Border Collie dogs, and few outdoor cats.

Yes I have regular Purples too, they are split to BS. I plan to have Peas for a long time, if I have a long time.

Don't forget to include chicken hens for brooding the pea eggs.

 

[Birdrain92]

Yes I have regular Purples too, they are split to BS. I plan to have Peas for a long time, if I have a long time.

Don't forget to include chicken hens for brooding the pea eggs.

I'm hoping some will be broody. I will incubate eggs myself, let broody chickens incubate them and then towards the end of the year let the peahens brood their own eggs.

 

[QueenMisha]

You could find a pair for $500 or less.

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.

 

[QueenMisha]

I was talking about adults for sure, if you want purple then gets purples from @KsKingBee , his birds are beautiful, a spalding purple black shoulder peacock are my favorite from the purple color.

Just out of curiosity, what's the difference between a purple and a spalding black shoulder purple? I remember spalding referring to a cross of species (I think), but what type of coloration would black shoulder purple be as opposed to plain old purple? And would the spalding change the color? Sorry for all the questions, I know basically nothing of peafowl varieties.

 

[KsKingBee]

Think of a Spaulding as a cross between a Green, (tropical), bird and a Blue, (winter hearty), bird. Greens have more color variances than Blue and many people in the north would love to have them, but like me are not willing to heat a building all winter for them. Crossing them creates more colors and they are able to withstand the cold better.

I am told that any bird with any amount of Spaulding in it should be notated as being Spaulding, hence people will say things like high percentage or low percentage, sometimes if they know the percentage they will use the number. When stateing a birds discription you always start with the color and then the pattern adding any know splits after that. So my bird is a Spaulding Purple Black Shoulder, there may be splits, but the breeder is deceased and I do not know what they are. With careful breeding some splits can be identified. If my bird had no Spaulding or Black Shoulder pattern it would simply be a Purple.

Adding Spaulding to a Blue bird also creates more vivid colors.

 

[QueenMisha]

Think of a Spaulding as a cross between a Green, (tropical), bird and a Blue, (winter hearty), bird. Greens have more color variances than Blue and many people in the north would love to have them, but like me are not willing to heat a building all winter for them. Crossing them creates more colors and they are able to withstand the cold better.

I am told that any bird with any amount of Spaulding in it should be notated as being Spaulding, hence people will say things like high percentage or low percentage, sometimes if they know the percentage they will use the number. When stateing a birds discription you always start with the color and then the pattern adding any know splits after that. So my bird is a Spaulding Purple Black Shoulder, there may be splits, but the breeder is deceased and I do not know what they are. With careful breeding some splits can be identified. If my bird had no Spaulding or Black Shoulder pattern it would simply be a Purple.

Adding Spaulding to a Blue bird also creates more vivid colors.

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?

 

[Birdrain92]

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?

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.