sexing a peachick

[shan04]

I have 2 pies and 1 ib that are all exactly 2 month's old, can anyone tell me what signs to be looking for to determine the sexes? I know it's still a little premature but the suspense is killing me, i pray i have at least one girl. I've already got 1 4 year old ib and thought id start a small flock but really wanted to breed my own too.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Picture?

 

[shan04]

 

[new 2 pfowl]

That looks like...two Black Shoulders...and an Indian Blue? Maybe all male?
More pictures would be helpful!

 

[DylansMom]

That looks like...two Black Shoulders...and an Indian Blue? Maybe all male?
More pictures would be helpful!

Agreed on type, the brown one is your IB, the other 2 are Black Shouldered not Pied, and the closest one has some washed out looking feathers on the back as well as some lighter tipped tail feathers, could be carrying a White Eye gene. All are a little young to accurately sex at this point. And yes the more pictures the better, spread-out wings and tails can be helpful.

 

[shan04]

Yes yes are right they are black shoulders idk what i was thinking, think it was cause i wanted pies but there was no babies hatched at the time. Lol i will get some more

 

[shan04]

 

[DylansMom]

The IB looks IB, I don't see any white on that one and there's a lot of stripes so I'm gonna guess male. White tipped feathers like the ones in Pictues 2 & 4 often indicate the prescence of a White Eye gene. Not even gonna venture a guess on the sex of the BS's yet, I'd just make a fool of myself (not hard to do

). Good pics!

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

I will take a wild guess on the black shoulder chicks and will say both are hens

 

[shan04]

I really hope i have at least 1 female out of them. What is the white eye gene?.... Is that donating bad or desirable? I'm new into peacocks, i have a 4 year old male but he's always been a pet and a darn good guard bird of my cochin flock.