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Those pictures I took with my cell phone that would be why it isn't as good of quality. In my avatar there are 2 peacocks Thor IB Pied, Colbolt my IB male who is 3 years old, Then the 2 peahens, Jadea IB 3 years old and Calypso. I think that your looking for barring on his shoulder, I know when I saw that he didn't have any when I was buying him I was getting a little worried but I have tried to sex them by the barring but it didn't work for any of my Indian Blue peachicks I've hatched out. The primary feathers will remain the same through their entire life but you don't want to sex them when it is brand new feathers that just came in. The chicks aren't molting when they are 2 to 3 weeks. They will sometimes do a small molt when they are about 2 to 3 months or sometimes 5 months. Just don't use new primary wing feathers when sexing by the primaries. It can throw you any where. Some peahen feathers will be slightly orange but a bunch of brown dots on the feather and some males might get a few brown spots at the tip of the feather but that fades out within a week. What I do to train my eye to know what to look for since I know what to look for Google images peachicks and find pics where the peachicks primary wing feathers show and eventually you will know how close a male's primary feathers can get to the female and how close female primaries get to males. Males can look a little like females when they begin getting colors. Usually when the peachick hatches in June or July sometimes August they will have their yearling feathers by 7 to 9 months of age. Or at least that's what me and my neighbors have discovered with IB. Though the white genetics might make things faster or slower.
