Someone help with breeds?

[Posh Chickens]

Hey, I'm new to peafowl, I would like to know as many breeds as possible! Can anyone give me some names?

 

[SuperPeacockman]

Google amy's peacock paradise and look at the varieties database

 

[C&Rman]

Well there is allot! But I am only buying 2 diffrent breeds. I know of...
Black Shoulder
India Blue
Blue Pied
Bufford Bronze
Buff Spalding
Cameo
Cameo Spalding
Charcoal
Emerald Spalding
Java Green
Oaten
Oaten Spalding
Opal
Pied
Pied Black Shoulder
Pied Emerald Spalding
Pied India Blue
Pied Spalding
Peach
Purple
Purple Black Shoulder
Purple Black Shoulder Spalding
Purple Spalding
Silver Pied
Spalding
White
White-Eye Pied
White Spalding

 

[SuperPeacockman]

Well there are 225 UPA approved varieties now.

 

[6littlechickies]

Legg's peafowl has a nice listing of all the colors, patterns and approved varieties here http://www.leggspeafowl.com/upavarieties.htm

 

[AquaEyes]

There are no breeds of peafowl. There are three species -- India Blue, Green, and the Congo. The green is currently broken up into three subspecies, but some research is beginning to show that the "green species" is actually more than one species.

The varieties of peafowl you see are the result of mutations and/or hybridization. The mutations all occurred in the India Blue. There are no mutations in the Green. Spaulding is the name given to hybrids between the India Blue and the Green. If you see a "green" peafowl with a mutation (such as being pied or purple), it is a Spaulding.

There is a difference between a breed and a mutation. Take chickens, for example. A Leghorn is a breed of chicken, as is a Jersey Giant or an Orpington. Within these three breeds are different colors. So for example, Orpingtons come in a bunch of colors. However, the difference between the colors is just one or a few genes. The difference between an Orpington and a Leghorn is many more genes. That is why they are called different breeds.

In peafowl, all the varieties listed on the UPA website are the same as the different colors in Orpingtons. They are not the same as different breeds of chicken. What makes a peafowl Purple as opposed to a Bronze or an Opal is just one gene difference, and that small of a difference is not what a breed is. It may be called a variety, but "breed" is not the proper terminology.

 

[Posh Chickens]

I totally get it ^ so what is the first variety of peafowl? (Ever existed)

 

[SuperPeacockman]

Black shoulder then white in the early 1800's. Some sources say black shoulders appeared England others say America, I do not know which is right.

 

[AquaEyes]

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Actually, neither. I think Darwin mentioned them being found in the wild, and that they were at one time thought to be a different subspecies, but then it was found to be just a genetic variation.

 

[SuperPeacockman]

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Actually, neither. I think Darwin mentioned them being found in the wild, and that they were at one time thought to be a different subspecies, but then it was found to be just a genetic variation.



Hmm I have never heard that did Darwin mention whites or black shoulders?