Those who need help in sexing peafowl

[Birdrain92]

How many times must I post this. Thor or Calypso aren't Spalding. They are Pied, not Spalding, nor Silver Pied, just Pied. I know for a fact that there is no Spalding in them is because the person I bought Thor and Calypso from didn't have a green or any Spalding peafowl on their property nor any one around them.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Birdrain92, go back to my pictures of the bronze hen. Is she spalding?

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Here is a good picture I found:

 

[casportpony]

Here is a good picture I found:

Are the top two male?

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

How many times must I post this. Thor or Calypso aren't Spalding. They are Pied, not Spalding, nor Silver Pied, just Pied. I know for a fact that there is no Spalding in them is because the person I bought Thor and Calypso from didn't have a green or any Spalding peafowl on their property nor any one around them.

Probably as many times as we keep saying Thor is female, lol.

-Kathy

 

[Birdrain92]

I don't know if those bronze is spalding or not one might be since you mentioned some came from the spalding bronze cage. Probably will have to keep saying it until Thor is like a year old.

 

[AugeredIn]

My 2 cents worth is that Thor is a spalding female split to silver pied. Some Spalding hens will develop a breast color just like hers and the darker green neck will be from the spalding cross. The white tipped or different colors on the back can be from a silver pied gene a generation or 2 back. connerhills

Glad someone finally agreed with my earlier call. Definite green blood here. If the white tips/edges remain to 12 months there is also probably dark pied/silverpied at work as well.

I have quit talking about it at this point. What's the use until she lays an egg?

 

[casportpony]

Glad someone finally agreed with my earlier call. Definite green blood here. If the white tips/edges remain to 12 months there is also probably dark pied/silverpied at work as well.

I have quit talking about it at this point. What's the use until she lays an egg?

. He could shut us all up if he could pluck a neck feather, right?

-Kathy

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Birdrain92,,do you know the difference between phenotype and genotype? What your birds looks like does not necessarily mean they don't have other hidden genetics that can otherwise be proven by patterns and colors in feathers. I've laughed at most of this thread because of all the hands on knowledgeable peafowl breeders here, you refute their opinions and knowledge. Just because you don't think any spalding is in your birds, does not mean 3-4 generations back a bird got bred by a spalding and that egg was hatched looking like an IB but still having the spalding genetics which hasn't appeared until now. I can take pictures of 10 of my own hatched-bred peafowl chicks from this or last year, post the here and then ask everyone what type they are based on looks alone,many would be correct, until Id post pics of the known parents. All my birds are pen bred,no accidental breedings here yet I know with one male we have named "Thang" and 3 ib w/e hens,he produces purple chicks. He as not with these hens this year and no purples were hatched. Geno and Pheno,,one is visual, one is hidden.

 

[Birdrain92]

I know what genotype is and phenotype. Genotype is the genetic make up which involves homozygous and heterozygous, while phenotype involves the looks.