Those who need help in sexing peafowl

[BYC-user-174785]

Thanks Zazouse that is exactly what I was looking for

 

[zazouse]

If Thora's (

) chest were going to turn white I would think that it would alread be white like her throat patch is.

-Kathy

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[casportpony]

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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.

-Kathy

 

[zazouse]

Disregard my earlier post about a possible new way to sex based on head color, it was a figment of my imagination!

-Kathy

Seems to be a bit of that going around here lately

 

[zazouse]

I don't know I think it would be white by now but also when I was looking at photos those dark spots on the neck used to stop at his shoulder and now they are going past them. So right now feathers are changing and I'm blundering in the dark what's going on. I see more and more barring each day and male primaries, he has a long skinny neck and he has a large fat breast his green feathers are turning blue, that tells me male though there's' white edging on the breast tells me female like. I don't know if he's going white so I don't know I'm blundering in the dark what's going on with Thor's breast color.

Oh heck poor Thore-a is just trying to make you happy but mother nature has other ideas, she done went and made Thore a hen before Thor-a new what you expected of her.

 

[Birdrain92]

I know it would be green right now.

 

[zazouse]

I know it would be green right now.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Here are peahen flight feathers, photo courtesy of Alea (MinxFox)





I will put yours in the middle



Then a peacocks:
This picture also shows the long tail.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

I know it would be green right now.

So you know that, but you still think you just have a super abnormal peacock? Can you explain your reasoning why it has a female plumage?

 

[Birdrain92]

Thor still has male primaries, his breast is large, he has spur bumps, his legs are longer than females, his neck is long and skinny, his tail is long, and he is now beginning to get barring. His breast plumage is the only thing that is confusing. I know what the wing feathers of each sex are I have lots of them. His wings are becoming more male like.