Those who need help in sexing peafowl

[casportpony]

And the gravy on the mashed potatoes. I can't forget the wonderful gravy! I've never had lamb before or horseradish.

OMG, you should try some lamb, it's amazing!
https://www.google.com/search?q=lam...=643#q=rack+of+lamb&safe=off&spell=1&tbm=isch
Horseradish, too, adds a nice touch to red meat. Goat is also a good one to try.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Or this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=lam...ih=643#q=leg+of+lamb+recipe&safe=off&tbm=isch

 

[AnimalsRmyLife]

OMG, you should try some lamb, it's amazing!
https://www.google.com/search?q=lam...=643#q=rack+of+lamb&safe=off&spell=1&tbm=isch
Horseradish, too, adds a nice touch to red meat. Goat is also a good one to try.

-Kathy

Looks good! I will have to try it soon.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

I'm confused I thought like all peafowl are sex links except white because they are white? I thought sex link means the male and female have different plumages. What do you mean by no doubt you're guess was correct or if the birds or switched. That doesn't seem fair to switch birds on me.

By wingbanding before the pictures are taken,each individual peachick can be tracked all summer.I order wingbands in consecutive numbers with two wingbands having the same number,one for each wing.If I have 2 wingbands with the number 350 stamped on both of them,there is no way anyone could say after the chick matures some and starts getting young adult plumage, can say I switched birds around because I do not have any extra wingbands of the same number to put in a bird later.Zaz is correct,you have a 50/50 chance of being right.But I'm expecting more like a 95% correct answer from you. I can take a new picture each week but since your able to correctly identify at 1 day of age,I really would only need to post new pictures after there is no doubt the sex is known.
You are wrong on sex linked information. Certain sex colors bred to opposite sex-diffrent colors will produce 2 diffrent colored peachicks. Depending on which sex of adult peafowl was bred to what,all chicks resembling one color of the parents are males,and the other colored chicks are the hens.Cameos, Peach,Purples and Violettas are sex linked. Do a SEARCH here in topics and maybe you will understand.

 

[kuntrygirl]

You're such a tease. That looks delicious!!!!!!!! What's all on there?


I love my turkey eggs, so I have been enjoying them. I'm not in a hatching mood this year. I was too overwhelmed last year. :/

That is one pea egg over easy on a toasted cheesy bagel with cream cheese, smoked salmon, avocado, capers and lemon pepper. I hear you.. last season was a bit much for me, too.

-Kathy

YUMMY.

I will sit back and watch everyone else hatch. I'm retiring this year.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Smoked salmon. Please send me 5lbs COD?

Lol, I just bought mine at the grocery store, it's one of those 4 ounce packs like this: But one of these days I'd like to do one of them salmon fishing charters and catch one, that would be fun! -Kathy

Do you eat it cooked or raw?

 

[casportpony]

Birdbrain, check out this link:
http://www.cacklehatchery.com/redsexlink.html

It's chickens, but I think the same sort of thing applies to peafowl.

-Kathy

 

[MinxFox]

I'm confused I thought like all peafowl are sex links except white because they are white? I thought sex link means the male and female have different plumages. What do you mean by no doubt you're guess was correct or if the birds or switched. That doesn't seem fair to switch birds on me.

I think you are confusing the term sex linked with the term sexual dimorphism. Sexual dimorphism is the difference between males an females of a same species like the plumage and of course sexual dimorphism is very evident in birds.

This is copied from the peafowl stickies about sex-linked peafowl (I am not interested in raising sex-linked varieties so I am quoting this since I am not a sex-link expert):
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The current sex-linked colors are Purple, Cameo, Peach, and Sonja's Violeta (the newest). These colors do not transfer between birds like normal colors. Instead they travel on the gender chromosomes. Males must have 2 copies of the allele to display the color but females only need 1 copy. For the sake of simplicity, I will show the transference of the color when bred to a Blue. I will use purple as the sex-linked color. I will add pictures of punnet squares for visual examples when I get the time to use a scanner.

Purple male x Blue female = Blue split Purple males and Purple females
Purple female x Blue male = Blue split Purple males and Blue females
When a sex-linked color is bred to a blue split to its own color (ie purple bred to split purple), males and females of the sex-linked color can be produced. Remember that blues split to sex-linked colors will ALWAYS be male (see below). Additionally, the sex-linked colors will breed true when bred to itself.
Purple female x Blue split Purple male = Blue split Purple males, Purple males, Blue females, and Purple females
Purple male x purple female = Purple males and Purple females
No female will ever be split to a sex-linked color, because they only need 1 copy to display the color. A female with the gene will always be the sex-linked color. I will use Purple again as my sex-linked color for an example.
Purple male x Opal female = Blue split Purple/Opal males and Purple split Opal females
When two sex linked colors are bred together, the male offspring will be blue split the colors of the parents and the females will be the color of the father. Let's use Peach and Purple as our two sex-linked colors.
Peach male x Purple female = Blue split Peach/Purple males and Peach females
If you were to go insane and decide to breed the children of the pairing above together, it would be awesome and look something like this:
Blue split Peach/Purple male x Peach female = Peach males, Blue split Purple/Peach males, peach females, purple females

A note on Peach color: The current theory is that Peach is an interaction of the Purple and Cameo colors. If that is true, a Peach bird will necessarily be "split" Purple and Cameo, and could produce either when bred.

 

[casportpony]

Do you eat it cooked or raw?

Smoked is cooked, but raw would be fine if it were fresh, like from a Japanese market where they sell fresh raw fish for sushi.

-Kathy

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Kathy,here in the midwest we are known for raising some great beef with corn.Unlike grass fed cattle the cattle grows much faster on corn so the muscles are not tough because of age.Corn helps develope fat and fat adds flavor. You ever eat at Arby's? The beef they use is from Holstein cattle. It is seasoned well and slow cooked because a Holstein cow is not a beef variety,they were bred to produce milk not convert feed to muscle mass.A beef variety can reach market weight at about 14 months of age where a holstein can take 18-20 months because they do not convert feed as well. Point being,there isn't much better than a Prime Rib roast,slow roasted with horseradish sauce,green onions and a heavy red wine like Concord. Add a baked potatoe and sour creme and butter and viola-!!5000 calories to digest and work off