Show off your Peas!

[MinxFox]

Just checked the UPA's facebook page. They have a photo on there from this site: http://www.pfauenzucht.eu/default.html so I decided to check out the site. There are lots of good photos of peafowl on there, and their silver pied male is amazing looking! He has almost a fully white front but all of the back of his neck is colored. It is such a unique contrast and most of their pieds and silver pied birds have really unique looking markings on them.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

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I love the picture they had in their home page, its famous now, i saw it many time in different pages.

 

[Dany12]

Just checked the UPA's facebook page. They have a photo on there from this site: http://www.pfauenzucht.eu/default.html so I decided to check out the site. There are lots of good photos of peafowl on there, and their silver pied male is amazing looking! He has almost a fully white front but all of the back of his neck is colored. It is such a unique contrast and most of their pieds and silver pied birds have really unique looking markings on them.

That's the Black shoulder effect !

 

[ellymayRans]

Where's everyone been?! Me I've been doing a bit of hatching (chickens) buying in the Egg auctions!! Built a coolerbator and set Emu eggs! Lol!

I did release my newest addition. The 3yr old BS hen. She seems happy to be with fellow Peas! Here's a pic I took today of her and the Mr picking through the ivy.

 

[zazouse]

Pretty peas

 

[msmeower]

I would love some expert opinions on colors of birds I hatched out of ebay eggs last summer!


I'm pretty sure the male on the left came out of an egg labelled 'Opal'. Does he look Opal?



The three in the middle came out of eggs labelled Bronze, Cameo Black Shoulder (Oaten) and an unlabelled egg. Is the Bronze in the back? What are the other two? And are they all hens?



What is the bird on the left with the white head and gold/green neck? Color and sex?

Any advice is appreciated!

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

I would love some expert opinions on colors of birds I hatched out of ebay eggs last summer!


I'm pretty sure the male on the left came out of an egg labelled 'Opal'. Does he look Opal?
He looks india blue and could be split to another color.



The three in the middle came out of eggs labelled Bronze, Cameo Black Shoulder (Oaten) and an unlabelled egg. Is the Bronze in the back? What are the other two? And are they all hens?
The hen in the back look cameo but we need better pictures to tell, the lighting isn't helping here, for the two black shoulder birds in the middle you will be able to see their real colors on their neck feathers, but any way the one in the front doesn't't look cameo for me. And i think the one behind her is cameo black shoulder hen. And yes the three in the middle are all hens.



What is the bird on the left with the white head and gold/green neck? Color and sex?
Its india blue black shoulder male, and the one on the left look bronze hen.
Any advice is appreciated!

 

[DylansMom]

I would love some expert opinions on colors of birds I hatched out of ebay eggs last summer!


I'm pretty sure the male on the left came out of an egg labelled 'Opal'. Does he look Opal?
This looks like a spalding male to me, he could be split to Opal, but he isn't Opal. The hen hiding behind him looks like a Bronze.


The three in the middle came out of eggs labelled Bronze, Cameo Black Shoulder (Oaten) and an unlabelled egg. Is the Bronze in the back? What are the other two? And are they all hens?
These all look like hens in the middle, I can't really see the one in the very back, but if she is the same one from the first pic she is likely bronze. The hen in front looks like a Bronze in the Black Shoulder pattern, and from what I can see the one in the center looks like an IB Black Shoulder hen.


What is the bird on the left with the white head and gold/green neck? Color and sex?
This one is tough, looks like a Black Shoulder male, but the wings look like a hens. I wonder if this could be a spalding as well, looking at that neck color? That could make it difficult to determine sex.
Any advice is appreciated!

For comparison.

Spalding male





Opal male


Bronze Black Shoulder hen



Bronze hen



Cameo Black Shoulder hen

 

[KsKingBee]

What are the major points of distinction between an IB hen and a Bronze hen?

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

What are the major points of distinction between an IB hen and a Bronze hen?

IB hens have more green on their necks, bronze hens also have darker breast feathers.