Those who need help in sexing peafowl

[casportpony]

-Kathy

 

[Birdrain92]

I feel your pain Kathy. I didn't want the argument to go on anymore. Perhaps I should just pull down this thread or whatever one of you guys mentioned to make it stop.

 

[casportpony]

I feel your pain Kathy. I didn't want the argument to go on anymore. Perhaps I should just pull down this thread or whatever one of you guys mentioned to make it stop.

That's up to you, lol, I get a kick out of it. I mean this in the nicest way possible, but what will you tell all of us when you finally see that Thor is a hen? And at what age do you think that will be?

-Kathy

 

[Birdrain92]

If I'm wrong then I will admit that I was wrong and I spent an entire month trying to prove you guys that I was right when I was really wrong and obviously there is much I still have to learn about peafowl and I'm sorry that I argued with people more experience than I and I should shut up and take their advice more often until I know what I'm saying. That's what I will say. I think Thor will stop with his color changing and show what Thor is that no one can argue with hopefully anywhere from 7-9 months. When Thor is 2-3 years old then nobody can argue with what Thor is and if they want to including me then I or that person isn't to smart. I mean this in the nicest way too. What will all of you guys that were part of the Thor is a hen party do if Thor turns out to be a male?

 

[casportpony]

I can't speak for everyone else, but I will apologize and be very embarrassed, lol, and I will make no excuse for being wrong. So, by the time Thor is nine months old all this will end, one way or the other, right? Promise?

-Kathy

 

[BYC-user-174785]

If I'm wrong then I will admit that I was wrong and I spent an entire month trying to prove you guys that I was right when I was really wrong and obviously there is much I still have to learn about peafowl and I'm sorry that I argued with people more experience than I and I should shut up and take their advice more often until I know what I'm saying. That's what I will say. I think Thor will stop with his color changing and show what Thor is that no one can argue with hopefully anywhere from 7-9 months. When Thor is 2-3 years old then nobody can argue with what Thor is and if they want to including me then I or that person isn't to smart. I mean this in the nicest way too. What will all of you guys that were part of the Thor is a hen party do if Thor turns out to be a male?

Oh, so apology accepted! That is pathetic that you feel like you will have to wait until she is two to three years old. You can't expect her to lay eggs and grow a train... You already have peafowl, so you must be quite ignorant about peafowl sexing if it takes you that long to sex a bird. When someone ask for a few month old peachick will you say, sorry I have to wait to see if it lays an egg or grows a train to know what sex it is. Well I wont be telling you anything when "Thor is a male" because no one here other than you is planning on it happening. Honestly, take the advice of more knowledgeable peafowl breeders. I am probably close to same age as you, but I am not as stubborn as you.

 

[new 2 pfowl]

I will absolutely apologize...and then...
I'll go spend some quality time with my favorite pet...

 

[Birdrain92]

Promise. I can give anybody a peachick how hard is it to sell a peachick. I can sex IB peachicks easily at day one. I'm 15 years old until February 20 then I will be 16. I guess we got a deal with everybody so far. AnimalsRmyLife supports me and just saw Thor today. I have been sure of Thor's sex since day one. I'm just saying if I'm wrong I will apologize and regret arguing like I said I keep and I will keep my word just as I expect the same. What if you're wrong Blue Creek Farm?

 

[casportpony]

I will absolutely apologize...and then...
I'll go spend some quality time with my favorite pet...

You are so naughty, but I love it!

-Kathy

 

[MinxFox]

I sold some chicks thru Craigslist this past summer. A gentleman from a neighboring county bought 8 of them, I did not hatch any IB, and this guy wanted IB, he was buying them to resell. He has a website and advertises himself as a breeder and dealer of rare and exotic poultry. Long story short, the closest I had to IB were some IB spaldings 50/50 genes, I explained that they were not pure IB but would look mainly like IB due to the low % of green. Of course I kept an eye on his site and he advertised them and sold them as pure IB. Does anyone really think the same could not happen to or from Murray McMurray?

Hello I wanted to say welcome! I hope you stay here in the wonderful peafowl section!!! I like your avatar it looks like you have some pretty birds and I wish I could say I have been into peafowl for 19 years...That is almost how long I have been alive!

I agree with you. I saw on a hatchery website once a photo of a "Green peafowl". It was a spalding. I have no experience with hatcheries, but I am guessing they are mainly good when it comes to chickens, but peafowl can be so complicated with Spaldings that I think hatcheries don't know what they are dealing with as far as peafowl goes. That is just what I figure. The best bet is getting birds from a breeder who has all their stuff together that can tell you: The parents of the bird, what pen # they came from, and possibly where their original birds came from (especially important when dealing with green peafowl).

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If I am wrong, I will be super surprised because not only does Thor looks a lot like a peahen I had, but everyone else on this thread says female. Although hey everyone is wrong sometimes because we are all human so I will accept being wrong if that is what happens. I will still be confident in sexing peafowl, I will just keep more of an open mind...Annnd I will do some sort of drawing for you Birdrain, maybe a drawing of Thor with some lightning in the background or something cool. No body has to be right all the time, although it would be nice if the weather man was right all the time! Just an example of mistakes with peafowl...I shared this with Blue Creek already...I got the UPA magazine today and I noticed an article about green peafowl. It was written by someone who is a science writer, technical editor, and palaeozoologist and they wrote in it, "But there's another peafowl: the Green peacock P. muticus, also sometimes called the Burmese peacock." The funny thing is P. muticus is literally Javanese green peafowl, which are sometimes called Javas, not Burmese. Burmese peafowl are Pavo muticus Spicifer. It goes to show you that even someone with nice titles can say the wrong thing.