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One thing I have observed, but not sure if it works in every situation is the actual tail, not the train. In this picture notice the two boys have long, barred tails.
One thing I noticed when I had them was the closest one had a grayish tail, whereas the other one had a black tail.
Compare this to a hen, which I observed have generally a shorter tail which has very faint to no barring. When they display, the males will have a longer and pointy train, whereas the hens have a short rounded tail which their train feathers cover. The juvenile peacocks have no train, so their tail is still long and it sticks above their train feathers. They need that longer tail to eventually support a full train as an adult. As others stated, my boys have the fingered feathers on their neck. If my pictures did not show that enough, then here is a picture from Google:
Another thing one can notice is a peacock will begin to have a green outline on their brown back feathers where they will have the scaled feathers as adults. I hope this picture shows that:
which will turn into this-->
By the way, all of these peafowl pictures I am posting are not here anymore
My dad did not want the peachicks the IB hen hatched out, so they were sold, but their IB mom died in my arms one day after school, and the IB BS peacock pictured above died from a leg infection over the summer...so all of my observations are things I am trying to remember, which may not be 100% right.
One thing I noticed when I had them was the closest one had a grayish tail, whereas the other one had a black tail.
Compare this to a hen, which I observed have generally a shorter tail which has very faint to no barring. When they display, the males will have a longer and pointy train, whereas the hens have a short rounded tail which their train feathers cover. The juvenile peacocks have no train, so their tail is still long and it sticks above their train feathers. They need that longer tail to eventually support a full train as an adult. As others stated, my boys have the fingered feathers on their neck. If my pictures did not show that enough, then here is a picture from Google:
Another thing one can notice is a peacock will begin to have a green outline on their brown back feathers where they will have the scaled feathers as adults. I hope this picture shows that:
By the way, all of these peafowl pictures I am posting are not here anymore
My dad did not want the peachicks the IB hen hatched out, so they were sold, but their IB mom died in my arms one day after school, and the IB BS peacock pictured above died from a leg infection over the summer...so all of my observations are things I am trying to remember, which may not be 100% right.
