Those who need help in sexing peafowl

[casportpony]

Both could be pertinent but not definite. See your post #34. Look at the boy, then the girl.

Lol, if it's about the head, it's just not obvious to me, but I'm sure it will be once you point it out - I am trainable, lol.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Very curious... I'm gonna go look at them right now!

-Kathy

 

[AugeredIn]

We all must be bored waiting for breeding season. Twenty pages on the sex of a peahen.

 

[AugeredIn]

Lol, if it's about the head, it's just not obvious to me, but I'm sure it will be once you point it out - I am trainable, lol.

-Kathy

Hint: May not be a fair questions for those not familiar with both species. Have you reviewed what he told me it could not be? I bet Minxfox will jump in here and get it.

 

[MinxFox]

Man I didn't know you all were battling for some peachicks! I need a good excuse to visit AugeredIn....I haven't been reading this thread though so I will just throw out stuff...

Okay...Well casportpony mentioned the neck feathers being lined with the crème color like we see on peahens, now the bird has some dark pied or pied in it but the face is awfully white similar to a peahen face. The head shape just makes me think of a peahen in general. The back saddle feathers are not scale shaped like a peacock's back feathers would be. They are rounded and brown with no barring showing up. Yep the back is just all wrong to be a male. The neck feathers are not in the shape of a male's neck feathers, but even young peacocks have peahen shaped neck feathers. The barring on the train is just too faint. It is going away with age not becoming more prominent. And yes of course even peahens can have a few barred wing feathers...Especially green peahens.

Okay well did I get the answer you were looking for? That bird reminds me of my RIP Fiona...Looked very similar and the barring stayed on her for a bit like that too...

 

[Birdrain92]

You can't see the primaries in that photo.

 

[AugeredIn]

.......The back saddle feathers are not scale shaped like a peacock's back feathers would be. They are rounded and brown with no barring showing up. Yep the back is just all wrong to be a male. The neck feathers are not in the shape of a male's neck feathers, but even young peacocks have peahen shaped neck feathers.....

BINGO! Kind of. Look at Post #34 the first boy picture. See the neck feather shape? Look at the girl picture below. See the neck feather shape? Even at that young age, pure IB or IB mutations that are cocks get the "fingered" feathers. Look at blue Creeks last pictures he posted and look at the shape of the bronze birds feathers. Birdrain92's bird is well past the stage of having scalloped neck feathers unless there is green blood in him.

 

[3BirdGirlz]

You have to answer the riddle correctly first.

There are no barring on any primaries and none on the shoulders. This is gonna kill me!

 

[casportpony]

Hint: May not be a fair questions for those not familiar with both species. Have you reviewed what he told me it could not be? I bet Minxfox will jump in here and get it.

I've never seen anything but IB and white in person. Refresh my memory, what did he say that it couldn't be?

 

[AugeredIn]

There are actually way more physical attributes that can be used to sex simple birds than we normally quote on this site.