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[peacock12]

Check in with sdpeafowl. They had plenty of whites when I got mine back in October. I don't know what they have available now but worth a shot to ask. I ended up with 2 males but they were only approx 4 mos old and not able to sex that early on. I will be rehoming one of them at some point.

Good luck and welcome if I didn't before now!

Ok thanks

 

[peacock12]

Thanks everyone and one more question I have a blackshoulder peacock ..what color will his baby peachiks be ,? If it's a girl or a boy ?

 

[zazouse]

This pied boy claimed the front of the barn as his territory but one of the brothers decided he would challenge him for it, this has been going on for 2 days neither is giving in.







































He made the great escape here. He did great for not quite being three years old, the brother is coming four years old and has a season of sparing behind him now.

 

[MinxFox]

I am guessing Margaret is talking about Leggs Peafowl here: http://www.leggspeafowl.com/peafowlforsaleadults.htm

What are you breeding your blackshoulder peacock to? If you are breeding him to India Blues then the chicks will be split to blackshoulder. In other words they will look like India Blues but will carry the blackshoulder gene. If you breed him to a white you will get chicks split to white & blackshoulder meaning they will have a few white flight feathers and they are carrying the white gene.


Great photos Zaz!

 

[peacock12]

I am guessing Margaret is talking about Leggs Peafowl here: http://www.leggspeafowl.com/peafowlforsaleadults.htm

What are you breeding your blackshoulder peacock to? If you are breeding him to India Blues then the chicks will be split to blackshoulder. In other words they will look like India Blues but will carry the blackshoulder gene. If you breed him to a white you will get chicks split to white meaning they will have a few white flight feathers and they are carrying the white gene.


Great photos Zaz!

To this ones

 

[MinxFox]

The photos are not showing up?

Unless if you are breeding him to another blackshoulder or to a bird split to blackshoulder, you will not get blackshoulders from breeding him to an India Blue, white, pied, silver pied, etc and you won't get a pied bird by breeding him to a white.

Breeding a blackshoulder to a bird that is split to blackshoulder (carrying the blackshoulder gene) then you will get some chicks that are split to blackshoulder and some that will be full blackshoulder.

 

[peacock12]

 

[DylansMom]

The hens in this photo are all India Blue barred wing the male you just got is an India Blue Black Shoulder, they are the same color, but a different pattern. Barred wings are dominant over Black shoulders (solid wings) so when you breed the IB Black Shoulder to any of these hens you should get all chicks that look like India Blue barred wings. Chicks will be brown/tan in color, if you hatch out any chicks that appear to be white with a pink tint on the wings you have hatched a Black Shoulder chick and that means one or more of the hens are carrying a hidden recessive gene for Black Shoulder.

 

[thndrdancr]

I posted this in my local forum but since it's pea related thought you would all get a kick. Angel, my white peacock on the roof with some ladies. Hen the one on the corner squatted for him, he wanted to be accommodating but just coulnt figure how without rolling off the roof. The spectators didn't help his frustration!

Notice Petey down on the fence gate laughing!!!!

 

[thndrdancr]

Oh and love the sparring pictures, Zaz, beautiful!

May I ask what the little flowers are? My hyacinths are just peeking out of the ground, and I found some more rhubarb plants at Menards yesterday and planted replacements for everything I started last year that was torn up by the excavator dumb guys for our outside water pump/hydrant! Grrrrr!

A lot of wasted effort there! I love flowers and trees!