Show off your Peas!

[MinxFox]

I love the smell of ginger in bloom

That is a plant I have been meaning to get! Does it die back in the winter and come back in the spring? I haven't gotten into gingers yet...I really want to get some shell gingers and many other ginger varieties are beautiful as well.

Short video I took Yesterday for some of my peafowls, remember to watch in full HD.

Pretty peafowl! I like the color of your pens too!

 

[KsKingBee]

Short video I took Yesterday for some of my peafowls, remember to watch in full HD.

Beautiful birds and a top notch setup you have there!

 

[Dany12]

Zazouse ... beautiful ginger ... looks like a white canna !

q8peafowl on your video, where does this green peacock with many white spots come from ?(epistasis).

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Thank you guys, the white spots just came after he molted his feathers 3 months ago, I thought that normal

 

[Garden Peas]

Zazouse ... beautiful ginger ... looks like a white canna !

q8peafowl on your video, where does this green peacock with many white spots come from ?(epistasis).

I watched @q8peafowl 's video several times, and I did see a green bird with some white spots... but neither of these photos in this post appears to be q8's bird from the video. Where are these birds from?

 

[MinxFox]

I was looking at that older topic about white feathers on someone's pure green peahen just the other day. I am on my phone so I can't link to it at the moment, but if q8peafowl's greens are also from Rocking BAB, then this would make sence. Evidently some green peafowl from Wolfgang Mennig stock have random white feathers. It doesn't mean the bird is a pied spalding or impure, there is just something going on either genetically or there is a lack of some kind of nutrient in the diet. I think I read though that Friedrich Esser observed wild green peahens with a few white feathers. I have also read elsewhere, not sure if it is true or not, but that in Asia in the past there were some pure green peafowl that were all white. Not spalding whites, but white green peafowl. In the older topic people were throwing around several ideas such as diet, hormone imbalance, etc. I think the vitimin K deficiancy was definately not one of the likely causes. Anyways, I wouldn't start to worry about the bird's purity, but it might get more white on it with each molt.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Is this it MinxFox?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/581220/java-peahen-with-white-feathers

I just remember bookmarking it because it was an interesting thread.

 

[Dany12]

Even in China there are wild green peacocks with white spots.
I think in Europe they are rare now ... this line can be disappeared!
Mr. Quinton Spratt in England was with peacocks (Pavo muticus muticus) spotted with white ( i have a video ).But it has stopped its activities.
Q8 peafowl , that bird come from BAB ?

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Yes, it's from Rocking BAB, here is a picture of him before he molt:



I just noticed he had some white feathers before he molt

 

[MinxFox]

Yep that is the topic Blue Creek! Thank you!
Rocking BAB has several green peafowl with a few white feathers, but not all of them have white feathers. I guess it is just something in the genetics causing the white.