Sexing Peachick

[jbarrett]

My Aunts mother sent me 6 peacock eggs, unfortunatly she did not realize taking away from mother at 3 weeks would/could harm them.....I got one to live and hatch but it is so lonely, it is so hard to find peachicks for me here in Florida......Any way can anyone tell me how to find out if I have a boy or girl? Here is a pic if this will help!

 

[casportpony]

Congrats, he/she is very cute! As for sexing, I'm a novice, so maybe someone with more experience will tell you how to do it.

-Kathy

 

[MinxFox]

Hello from a small Florida peafowl breeder! Unfortunately I don't have peachicks right now. I only have yearling males for sale. I have raised a peachick by itself before and now it is my friendliest bird. When you raise them alone you have to spend lots of time with them since they are imprinted to humans. It is too young to tell the sex, but when it gets older if it has lots of barring and rust colored flight feathers it is a male, if it starts to lose the barring and is mainly all brown it will be a female.

Young peacock (ignore the white feathers, this one is split)