Those who need help in sexing peafowl

[KsKingBee]

Welcome to Consolidated Peafowl!

Dear Diary....

 

[Birdrain92]

Look at Colbolt at the base of the neck then look at Thor. Look at Jadea's then Calypso's. There is lots of similarity.

 

[zazouse]

 

[Yoda]

Look at Colbolt at the base of the neck then look at Thor. Look at Jadea's then Calypso's. There is lots of similarity.

Can I ask why are you stuck on the neck of the birds? The neck has nothing to do with being male or female. You have a barred wing pattern of peafowl where the males have bars on the wings and females are a solid brown. Now they have been telling the sex of barred wing birds for centuries, but then you come along and for some unknown reason come here and tell everyone that they are wrong and you are right cause of the green on the neck? The males necks are more colorful then the hens, hens have green on the neck and males are greenish blue to a blue blue, so again why are you stuck on the necks? The two birds in the last 2 pictures are hens and so is the bird on theleft of the first picture. I do not understand what your problem is when everyone tells you what sex they are. Walk up to the bird and pull out a couple feathers and send them in with $20 and they will DNA sex the bird for you. here's the link: http://zoogendna.com/

 

[mandyok]

I am going to ask probably a stupid question, please don't get mad. I have other peafowl but none of these beauties. On my other peafowl my males have long spurs but my females have little to no spurs. Is this one way you can sex a peafowl at a year? Just wondering.

 

[3BirdGirlz]

Not stupid...and nobody will be mad about that question silly! I don't know the answer, but I just had to chime in to not feel bad about asking questions

 

[mandyok]

Ok thanks, being new to raising and owning these I tend to get overwhelmed when trying to figure out how to sex them. Still have no idea about genetics. I am reading everything and wishing I had paid more attention in science class

 

[DylansMom]

I am going to ask probably a stupid question, please don't get mad. I have other peafowl but none of these beauties. On my other peafowl my males have long spurs but my females have little to no spurs. Is this one way you can sex a peafowl at a year? Just wondering.

X2, not stupid at all. If only it were that easy. Spurs are not a reliable indicator of gender, I have hens that have almost no spur and I have hens that have big spurs. Some of my hens have spurs bigger than some of my males. They also seem to develop them at different rates, some at a year old and some closer to sexual maturity. I hatched 40-some chicks last year, many diff. colors and patterns and all had visible spur bumps at a couple of weeks, so it doesn't work on the really young ones either. Just for myself, I found the white/cream edged feathers on the front of the throat to be the most reliable at the earliest age, this of course does not work for all varieties(black shouldered being the most obvious), but it worked for me w/ IB, Spalding, Pied, Silver Pied, Purple, and Opal. It is these feathers on Thor/a that the OP refuses to acknowledge are an indicator of "femaleness" he says they are an indicator of "Progressive Piedness"(a very rare trait/mutation, so rare I don't know what to call it).

 

[mandyok]

Oh ok thanks. Now I am wondering about my white. He does have longer tail feathers then my females but he/now maybe she has spurs and does strut and try to breed the females. He shakes his tail feathers and then runs at them screaming. Is this a male for sure if he does that. By the way I named him second because he is second in command so I guess the name could work for male or female

 

[DylansMom]

Oh ok thanks. Now I am wondering about my white. He does have longer tail feathers then my females but he/now maybe she has spurs and does strut and try to breed the females. He shakes his tail feathers and then runs at them screaming. Is this a male for sure if he does that. By the way I named him second because he is second in command so I guess the name could work for male or female

By a year old you should be seeing a pretty obvious difference in height between the boys and the girls. I have 4 whites in a pen, 2 hatched last May & 2 hatched last June. 1 of the younger ones is actually a couple of inches taller at the shoulder than 1 of the older ones. So I have 2 that are obviously taller than the other 2 this is telling me I have 1 male and 1 female from the May hatch, and 1 male and 1 female from the June hatch. So compare the white one's size/height to a known male and a known female. If you follow that?? Anyway, females will fan and display and strut, but I've never seen 1 of my girls do the scream and charge, so I'm guessing your Second in command is a boy.