Those who need help in sexing peafowl

[new 2 pfowl]

Wow, we seem to require a lot of parsing today!

For anyone who actually cares:

I have no opinion about primary feathers.

 

[AnimalsRmyLife]

Wow, we seem to require a lot of parsing today!

For anyone who actually cares:

I have no opinion about primary feathers.

Thank you for your clarification new 2. We respect that you have no opinion over the primaries. (Hopefully)

 

[Birdrain92]

Now I see it. I was thinking it was the primaries because that's the color of the primaries.

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Hopefully you're not implying that I am a prevaricator, ARML!

And by the way, these pictures are examples of my bad pea photography - you see why I need you to come and take some pictures!

 

[Birdrain92]

Thor's crest is coming in. No fully developed feathers just the tip of the crest is starting to show.

 

[AnimalsRmyLife]

Thor's crest is coming in. No fully developed feathers just the tip of the crest is starting to show.

Good! Now tell him to NOT molt for a while!!

Hopefully you're not implying that I am a prevaricator, ARML!

And by the way, these pictures are examples of my bad pea photography - you see why I need you to come and take some pictures!

Of course not new 2! I'm just saying I hope they'll agree with you and you won't have to keep saying it.

Your pictures are lovely! I don't think of them as bad. Keep it up!

 

[Birdrain92]

Picture day with Thor!

 

[Yoda]

WOW what a thread! That is all I can say WOW what a thread! Birdrain who taught you how to raise peafowl? Who taught you how to hatch out eggs? You want to know how to do it right look here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/704066/ill-show-you-my-setup-if-you-show-me-yours-heavy-pictures This shows you how I do it and I am using a styrofoam incubator. You can also view threads started by me and see what I hatched out and the horror stories that I dealt with. I had dropped eggs from the incubator that had the chick hanging out and still grew then to adulthood. I do not know who taught you about hatching birds and peafowl but share my links with them and then tell me curled toes killed a chick. When I built my peafowl/chicken shed I put hardware cloth along the flooring and then put sheets of plywood down, this keeps out mice and other rodents. I also have 3 pointers that hunt down chipmunks. I have lots of chipmunks but have not seen a mouse, maybe the chipmunks keep them away I do not know.

 

[Birdrain92]

I taught myself from mistakes and then corrected them. Ion and Aurora were the first I raised and hatched. The water dish I for Aurora isn't deep it's like 3 ml. I got 4 adult peafowl and I didn't kill them. How to hatch eggs that's common sense. I hatched more birds then the pics I posted. I use a Styrofoam incubator now. I just can't put a heat lamp I have in a aquarium without burning or cooking the chick alive.
This is the incubator I now used. First things I hatched out were 3 Golden Cochin chickens. Then a Rhode Island Red then mix breeds from my chickens and then mallard duckling then geese, Indian Runner ducks, turkeys, then peafowl. I'm pretty sure if I can get them to hatch that's a good thing. Peachicks out of the years that I've had only had those Aurora and Coco die on me within a week. One was the chick's fault and the other was because I didn't know what to do. This year though when I get chicks from Jadea and Colbolt I bet I won't loose any hopefully.

 

[Yoda]

Picture day with Thor!

This is you? You are a young man - to be young again hmmmmm beats being old LMAO!

Listen to what the people are saying here, they are not going to steer you wrong. They are going to help you. You are young and have a lot to learn so learn and take what they say and apply it and you will be the next generation of peafowl breeders. You might someday create a new color. But first, you need to understand that Thor is a ThorA. I do not want you to be disappointed when she does not grow a train. I would love for your Aunt to come here cause I have some questions I would like to ask her if she has 30 years experience raising peafowl. If she doesn't then I would suggest learning with you so when something starts to go wrong she can help fix it for you and she too can teach you what you need to do to have happy and healthy peafowl. I am currently incubating Emu eggs try to hatch some "new" blood. I will be purchasing some new Emus from someone I know but they will be related so I will need some new blood LOL How did I learn to hatch them and raise them by asking questions and learning from those who raise them and I bought a book about them

I would like to sit at my computer over the summer and read threads about you hatching and raising your peafowl and looking at pictures of them. But first the chip has to go and you need to open your mind and learn from the others on here what needs to be done and how it is done. I would like you to view the last page of my Thread about last years peachick hatch, it show what happened to chick 13 and what she looks like today. She had curled toes, swollen head/neck and could lift her head for days - but she survived.