Those who need help in sexing peafowl

[Birdrain92]

You can't get rid of the post completely you can only erase the words but there has to be at least one character.

 

[zazouse]

Look at Calypso she has barely any white edging on her neck.

 

[zazouse]

This is what the next feather molt will look like on a IB pied peacock before they turn a year old, so your girl/boy has alot of catchen up to do since it doesn't even have the first male barring yet

 

[BYC-user-174785]

New pictures of Thor and Calypso.






Spur bump on Thor!

More barring! on Thor!

Yes, these pictures definitely verify that this is a peahen. It this was a peacock, he would have had blue feathers on his neck by this time. Look at my India Blue peafowl for example:
2013 peacock. He is probably younger than Thor in this picture. He is already heavily barred and with that molt he got his blue feathers on his neck.


Next to his mom for comparison. Notice how she had no barring and white outlines on her neck feathers.


He already has tan colored flight feathers. They do not turn darker with age. Peachicks do molt a lot, and this molt was when he started showing the definite sings of being a peacock.


Mom for comparison.

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Since they are two hens, why not buy a peacock for them?! That is such a great excuse to get more.

 

[zazouse]

Yep get her a white peacock and you will get lots more pieds like 100% i believe

 

[3BirdGirlz]

I don't think he's going to be convinced.....until summer I'd say, and I guess we'll all wait and see here's my boy....he matured much faster than many I'd say. He is 16 months in this pic This is him and his hen at 7 months last yr

 

[zazouse]

He has a nice baby train he looks very much like one of mine the same age.

 

[3BirdGirlz]

He has a nice baby train he looks very much like one of mine the same age.

That's why I said more than most You have VERY pretty young boys Zaz. All that sun and free ranging does em good!

 

[zazouse]

My Master pea got one dinky eye feather on his first wee pea train nothing even close to to you fella at the same age but the next year he had a full blown train and sired all my offspring from 7 two year old hens a layen.

 

[Birdrain92]

They are all beautiful. Which if there are peachicks that develop fast then there are those who develop slow. Take Colbolt for example Colbolt in this photo is 2 years and 10 months.
Something that I realized I don't know if it goes to every peafowl but the train is a key to determining sex when yearlings. Males when one year old do have barring but I'm not looking at barring; the trains length is what I'm looking at. Males' trains will be close to the tip of the tail feathers while the female is in the middle or where the peahen's tail feathers grow in. Look at Jadea.
This was of July 2012 a year and 10 months.
Jadea when she was 2 years old and 10 months.
Realize how far the train has grown. The train shows when they are fertile. When a males train has even just a few feathers passing the tail the are sexually mature while females trains will be close to the tip of the tail.