Show off your Peas!

[birdman55]

@birdman55 here are a couple of pics showing the backs and eyes of a Purple compared to a Blue.

This is the Purple BS with a little Spaulding blood when the train is still developing in late Feb.
Notice the purple in the eyes? and the purple sheen in the back feathers?



This is an India Blue Black Shoulder, notice the greenish gold back feathers and the light blue in the eyes?
It is much easier to see the differences when they are side by side like this.




IB carrying one copy of White Eye, again light blue in the eyes and green back.

thanks i shall get some more pics to compare...seen you hatched a bunch of chicks....you hatched out 21 more then me....wow thats alot...hope your enjoying the easter hatch

 

[DylansMom]

I've got no idea so I'm all ears. I do think he looks more "green" in the neck than my IB juvies but thats as far as I can speak. Spalding hadn't really crossed my mind when I picked him up and I didn't really notice the greenish tint until I got him home next to the others. We're happy regardless and glad to get him out of the shelter and someplace where he can be in sunshine! They thought at the shelter he was around 3, he appears to be in that range but is there any reason to question this? Also, as he ages will more of the white or pied gene manifest itself or will he pretty well stay the same? I've heard they get more of the gene showing itself as they get older. Thanks.

You may be thinking of the White Eye gene, which can manifest itself more each year. I have a BS male who is split to White Eye, and each year more of his eye feathers have a white or cloudy spot in them. Pied and White splits generally stay the same. He has a long train for 3, but I also see some feathers that should be eyes, but aren't quite there yet. All things considered 3 is a pretty good guess. As KKB said...... in a spalding I would look for that yellow or blue on the face, a tightly bunched forward leaning crest, much darker wing color, etc..

50% Spalding

 

[MinxFox]

I was just guessing, but since they said he is greener looking and his wings look brown and not as light colored as I would think they would be. Low spaldings can have browner barred wings. Also a low % spalding does not always have bluish or yellow on their face and also that face coloring depends on the diet.

The split to white or pied is in the flight feathers. he has a few white flights.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

I do think he has some green blood too, just a few, because he looks so green in some pictures.

 

[Kedreeva]

If so, you better make sure the Peas are locked in at night. I don't know if they will hunt during the day, but I have a friend who lost several adult Peas to a Great Horned Owl, it took them right out of a big tree in the middle if the night. They would find the partially eaten remains under the tree the next day. They ended up locking all their birds up, after losing about 5 of them.

I expect that barn owls would make a play for peas, too. I had one go for a turkey and they're bigger than my peas.

I had Joslin (my only free-range bird, a large female turkey) get attacked by a barn owl in the middle of the night. Knocked her off her perch under my bedroom window at about 3am. Brave owl turned out to be not so brave when Joslin was awake, though... By the time I got outside she was squaring off with it and talking like she meant business, and it took off. Too bad for it, picking a fight with the meanest bird on my property...

But even so, the owl had nearly tore her throat open... half a millimeter deeper and she'd have a 3 inch hole instead of a 3 inch bit of flayed skin. The daylight birds of prey have never been brave enough to go after our big birds, and that owl hasn't been back since, but I'm sure it would have if it had won that skirmish and gotten a meal. I'm just glad it wasn't any of the peas... mine haven't got any sense at all when they get woken up. They'd get eaten.

 

[birdman55]

here are some pics of the purple? just a second ago.....
hope this helps

















thoughts....2009 pair...got for 235 delivered...

 

[birdman55]

also like to put out there...that the breeder does have spaulding as well...just didnt see their setup...so dont really know what the parents were....they said they were purple

 

[Birdrain92]

I expect that barn owls would make a play for peas, too. I had one go for a turkey and they're bigger than my peas.

I had Joslin (my only free-range bird, a large female turkey) get attacked by a barn owl in the middle of the night. Knocked her off her perch under my bedroom window at about 3am. Brave owl turned out to be not so brave when Joslin was awake, though... By the time I got outside she was squaring off with it and talking like she meant business, and it took off. Too bad for it, picking a fight with the meanest bird on my property...

But even so, the owl had nearly tore her throat open... half a millimeter deeper and she'd have a 3 inch hole instead of a 3 inch bit of flayed skin. The daylight birds of prey have never been brave enough to go after our big birds, and that owl hasn't been back since, but I'm sure it would have if it had won that skirmish and gotten a meal. I'm just glad it wasn't any of the peas... mine haven't got any sense at all when they get woken up. They'd get eaten.

I have 2 pairs of Great Horned Owls, a pair of Barn owls, and a pair of annoying Screech owls. Even though I haven't had the wild peacock around very long but our owls have been leaving all my birds alone even my ducks and the Great Horns will perch in trees next to our house so I don't think they are afraid of us. We also have Cooper Hawks, Red Tail Hawks, and a pair of Bald Eagles. So far the raptors leave my birds alone thankfully. Mainly my ducks and the wild peacock would be the only prey out of my birds.

 

[DylansMom]

I was just guessing, but since they said he is greener looking and his wings look brown and not as light colored as I would think they would be. Low spaldings can have browner barred wings. Also a low % spalding does not always have bluish or yellow on their face and also that face coloring depends on the diet.

The split to white or pied is in the flight feathers. he has a few white flights.

I do think he has some green blood too, just a few, because he looks so green in some pictures.

I am thinking it is just the lighting. These 2 pictures are the exact same bird on the same porch, just a different camera angle and a cloudy day vs. a sunny day. No green blood that I am aware of, but he sure can look green in the right light.

 

[Kedreeva]

I have 2 pairs of Great Horned Owls, a pair of Barn owls, and a pair of annoying Screech owls. Even though I haven't had the wild peacock around very long but our owls have been leaving all my birds alone even my ducks and the Great Horns will perch in trees next to our house so I don't think they are afraid of us. We also have Cooper Hawks, Red Tail Hawks, and a pair of Bald Eagles. So far the raptors leave my birds alone thankfully. Mainly my ducks and the wild peacock would be the only prey out of my birds.

We have a Cooper's Hawk that lives on our property, and he does pretty good at keeping all the other birds of prey away from "his" roost (saw him get in a fight with a red tail that tried to move in)... which just happens to be a big dead tree that is near my pens. He's taken a few turkey chicks (so we don't let them free range anymore), but other than that he leaves my birds alone, so I'm thankful for his presence. Apparently my neighbor across the street feeds him at a post in her backyard.

when my birds were penned at a friend's house, though, we had a red tail shoot down and right into the fencing on top of the pen. Shrieking and tearing with its claws and beak at the roof fencing. It was crazy! Thankfully it did not get through, but wow it wanted to get my birds.