Show off your Peas!

[Dany12]

Photo taken at the Rocking BAB ranch

I know someone that likes this spalding pied hen

WoW ! ... More yellow in the face than in a breeding pure green peahen!
Comparable to a wild green peahen of Java !

 

[cajunfowl0]

I think some of them are Burmese. I didn't get a good look at them this trip but for Farm Day and I think the previous farm day too some of the birds in there looked like Burmese to me. I don't know for sure though I have only talked to Josh about the greens in the long row of green peafowl breeding pens. He has gotten so good at breeding high % spaldings that I often second guess myself and am not really sure what I am looking at. If you tell me it is a pure green I can then usually identify the subspecies (especially in person), but it is harder for me to say if it is a high % spalding or a pure green. I was looking at a free range peacock and thought it was a green free-ranging but AugeredIn asked Josh about the bird and Josh said it was a high % spalding. Here is the bird:

He must have a trained eye!

 

[MinxFox]

That and good records haha. He has so many greens and spaldings that I am sure he has learned to easily differentiate them.

 

[cajunfowl0]

Quick question. One of my males has two white flight feathers. Does this mean he is a possible carrier of a white gene.

 

[KsKingBee]

Yes, some type of white. Either White, Pied or White Eye. If it were WE there would be other factors associated with it like light grey feathers and a mottled appearance.

 

[cajunfowl0]

Yes, some type of white. Either White, Pied or White Eye. If it were WE there would be other factors associated with it like light grey feathers and a mottled appearance.

i think it might be pied my other male (his brother) looks a lot like a pied

This is his brother

 

[Dany12]

Both are IB black shoulder ...no pied at all !

 

[cajunfowl0]

Both are IB black shoulder ...no pied at all !

Then why would one has white flight feathers?

 

[MinxFox]

Young blackshoulder males have white on them. it can take them a while to lose all of the white feathers. Blackshoulders hatch out as white looking peachicks so it ends up taking them a while to go from white to color especially in the wing area.

 

[cajunfowl0]

Young blackshoulder males have white on them. it can take them a while to lose all of the white feathers. Blackshoulders hatch out as white looking peachicks so it ends up taking them a while to go from white to color especially in the wing area.

They are both almost 5 that seems a little old to still have white on them. There is most likely another gene hidden in there somewhere