Those who need help in sexing peafowl

[casportpony]

Thor still has male primaries, his breast is large, he has spur bumps, his legs are longer than females, his neck is long and skinny, his tail is long, and he is now beginning to get barring. His breast plumage is the only thing that is confusing. I know what the wing feathers of each sex are I have lots of them. His wings are becoming more male like.

All of the dark primaries would should be orange for her to be male.

-Kathy

 

[Birdrain92]

I can see male primaries, true there are 5 female primaries but there are 6 male primaries and more becoming male primaries.

 

[MinxFox]

Maybe Thor is a unisex peafowl...It happens.... Just look at Conner Hills page: http://connerhills.com/unisex_peafowl.html

Although this would be strange because normally that is a thing that happens to old peahens.

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[BYC-user-174785]

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I can see male primaries, true there are 5 female primaries but there are 6 male primaries and more becoming male primaries.

You cannot be half female, and half male. Your peafowl is not going through a sex change... Please show me a picture of a solid orangish flight feather. All of the pictures so far have been female primaries. Once again, answer my question, why would she grow female plumage then become a male? I have been wrong before as I raised peafowl, so I just learned from my mistakes. I also checked out your website, and I also would like to know about your sexing methods for white peafowl. I want evidence.

 

[Birdrain92]

For white peafowl my evidence is when it comes to my neighbor. We conducted an experiment with week old peachicks banded each of them and recorded what we believe the sex was. It may have been just luck getting 10 peachicks the right sex. As well we realized other peachicks on Google looked similar tone of color though it may be one of those once in a life happen things.2 that are white and one that is yellow and they have the same diet
One yellow one white.











I don't know why they would go female then male. Why does casportpony have a female with 2 male feathers and a male with 5 female primaries.

 

[zazouse]

It's a duck i tell ya

 

[Birdrain92]

It's a duck i tell ya

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[MinxFox]

The photo on your website titled Pied peahen & Peachicks is one of my photos that I have on my website and this is my peahen Damsel, so could you please put under it some sort of credit like (Photo by Alea Kittell).

Maybe I should start watermarking my photos or something...

 

[zazouse]

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[MinxFox]

things.2 that are white and one that is yellow and they have the same diet

This is one of my photos. All of these chicks are Spalding whites. The one that is more yellow looking turned out to be a female, Goldilocks, and of the two others one was a male and one was a female.