Those who need help in sexing peafowl

[AugeredIn]

Using the top picture in post #148 of this thread and the statements BIrdrain92 has made directly to me, tell me why the bird cannot be a peacock. You cannot use any logic/factor that has been discussed thus far. The first person to PM me with the correct answer can have your choice of any of my chicks hatched priced $200.00 or less this spring as long as you pay for the shipping.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

This picture was taken by my cousin, it is of my spalding peacock. I was hoping he would be a hen, but I kept him and he was a peacock since he grew a train!



Bronze peacock versus the hens. He already has a sold bronze neck.


Tell me the sex of the peach silver pied and peach pied please.


Spurs. Peahens do get them, but I do not have pictures of any.














Up above are peahen pictures, just showing you different views.


Those are peacock flight feathers.




Nice flight feathers. They do not turn this color. They come in like this. He NEVER had powdered flight feathers like you boy.










This was supposed to be a hen, but we decided it was probably a boy, and the person we sold it to has not said otherwise. He was one and a half in this picture with a spur bump just showing up.




She also had barring, which is normal for a peahen.




This is that bronze peacock earlier. See his flight feathers and neck are different than they are now.


This is a bronze peahen. Notice white outline on neck feathers. She had barring which went away.




In the next few molts his neck would be solid blue.




Both boys are heavily barred, but neck not yet solid blue. Notice orange flights feathers. Also, notice their "train feathers" are not same length as their tail.




I believe blackshoulder peahen flight feathers were mentioned, so here are some pictures of my blackshoulder spalding peahen.

Let the pictures speak for themselves and take the time to compare. Then ask any questions.

 

[AugeredIn]

PS, I am not saying the statemernt he made is correct.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Using the top picture in post #148 of this thread and the statements BIrdrain92 has made directly to me, tell me why the bird cannot be a hen. You cannot use any logic/factor that has been discussed thus far. The first person to PM me with the correct answer can have your choice of any of my chicks hatched priced $200.00 or less this spring as long as you pay for the shipping.

You wont be getting rid of that peachick soon! I say it is a hen.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

I just found a picture of a peahen with spurs:

 

[Birdrain92]

I can sex them very early by barring alone, but I had 32 this year to practice on.

-Kathy

Well for me when I tried sexing them by barring it didn't go very well.

 

[AugeredIn]

You wont be getting rid of that peachick soon! I say it is a hen.

Note my change above. Too much Christmas cheer tonight!

 

[Birdrain92]

My peahen has spurs. You have to remember Thor has white mixed with his primary feathers. They would be the same if there wasn't any white. You can see the tip of the primary feathers that look like male primary feathers.
You can see there are male primaries except those middle 2 and wing covert. I'm sure that they will change to male.

 

[AugeredIn]

Thor is going to lay eggs next year.

 

[Birdrain92]

I know I won't get a chick because I still believe that Thor is a male, so I'm disqualified.