Those who need help in sexing peafowl

[BYC-user-174785]

Here are the pictures of the bronze peachicks. Some of them came from a pen with some bronze spalding hens. They are at the age where they get the yellow blooms on their lorus, so the ones I took pictures of do not have much green blood if any. I do have pictures of bronze white eye hens that show their barring, but since we are not dealing with WE, I will not post them. I know that some of the pictures are blurry, but my hands were freezing, so I just quickly took some pictures after feeding them.

Notice the slight barring and darker feathers that are above her primary feathers.


Hens are not barring free when they are young.




This is the heavily barred peacock. Notice the orange flight feather-it is not going to magically become the right color over the next few molts.


Bronze hen and peach silver pied hen.

I do have a peach pied peacock, and a peach silver pied peacock that are around same age if you do not think that a wild patterned bronze is a good comparison.

 

[casportpony]

That would have been cool to see. Since P-Dawg is imprinted, I am sure he was fine. Did he end up being aggressive to you as he got older?

He'll be three in August, so we'll see what happens, lol.

-Kathy

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Late hatch boy... So is he growing a train yet? I would love to see pictures... I am also waiting to see how Peep turns out, so I am hoping they will be okay, since I want to imprint a peachick, or attempt to again, and that will be a good excuse to keep a traditional blue, which I do not have anymore.

 

[Dany12]

You can't pay attention to the color of the breast feathers only the shape. Thor is a PIED peafowl and he's turning white I promise. I think that's what's throwing us all off for a loop because his breast and neck feathers are turning white. What does the finger length have to do with this? Are you saying the fingers are the toes or are they the primary wing feathers? If it involves Spalding peafowl I can promise you that it won't work. Thor is a Pied peafowl; and a late bloomer. What does OP mean?

The male fingers are longer than the fingers of the female.
A way to distinguish the sexes among young white peacocks.

 

[casportpony]

Late hatch boy...  So is he growing a train yet?  I would love to see pictures...   I am also waiting to see how Peep turns out, so I am hoping they will be okay, since I want to imprint a peachick, or attempt to again, and that will be a good excuse to keep a traditional blue, which I do not have anymore.

He is growing a train, but it's actually shorter than my yearling's train, so we'll see, lol.

The male fingers are longer than the fingers of the female.

A way to distinguish the sexes among young white peacocks.

What a brilliant idea! So what's the youngest this would work on?

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

@Birdrain92 , get those neck feathers yet?

-Kathy

 

[Birdrain92]

Unfortunately no. Thor's neck feathers wouldn't come out. I even tried pulling a feather on his breast and it still wouldn't come out. I would pull a feather and it would just yank Thor backwards or down. I held Thor down and tried pulling a feather out and it still would yank Thor up. He sat there letting me pull as hard as I wanted and the feather wouldn't come out. I gave up after pulling for 10 min. I even had my dad try to get a feather out while I held Thor down. Thor still wouldn't move while trying to pull a feather. He just kept getting yanked up when we would pull on a feather. I don't know why it's so hard to pull a feather. I'm might come and try to pull a feather again tomorrow. He's probably ready for fair if I can try and pull neck feathers and without a bad reaction.

 

[casportpony]

Pull one feather at a time.

-Kathy

 

[Birdrain92]

I was, I had a hold of only one feather, and when my dad tried he would only try to pull one feather. I hope I can find a loose feather tomorrow.

 

[casportpony]

Lol, cowboy up and pluck that feather, it's easier than pulling a mane!

It's not like pulling a tail or wing feather, it's just a neck feather. If you *really* can't pluck one, just get a close up picture of it.

-Kathy