Those who need help in sexing peafowl

[casportpony]

Just as the feathers were labeled, that is what peacock they came from. It shows the different degrees of green blood versus a feather from a blue and a green peacock.

To me the top two look more like male feathers and the bottom two look like hen feathers. Female left, male right.

Is there something I don't understand about the differences? Or is the othe picture just too small for my old eyes to see?

-Kathy

 

[BYC-user-174785]

It is a small picture but have you seen green peafowl before? Maybe that is why it is confusing you.

 

[casportpony]

It is a small picture but have you seen green peafowl before? Maybe that is why it is confusing you.

Haven't seen them... how are their feathers different from an IB (other than color, lol)?

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

I am easily confused!

-Kathy

 

[BYC-user-174785]

I only have a Spaulding peacock but I will take comparison pictures probably in 2014 (tomorrow!) and will post them. But there is a big difference. Let me look for comparison pictures.

 

[casportpony]

I only have a Spaulding peacock but I will take comparison pictures probably in 2014 (tomorrow!) and will post them. But there is a big difference. Let me look for comparison pictures.

Would help if you could pluck a neck feather, lol.

-Kathy

 

[BYC-user-174785]

I have feathers they molted. No need to pluck. Check out www.peafowl-farm.com for green peafowl pictures. Especially these:
http://www.peafowl-farm.com/Home-En...ator-E/Album-PMI-TN-E71/album-pmi-tn-e71.html
http://www.peafowl-farm.com/Home-En...ator-E/Album-PMI-TN-E48/album-pmi-tn-e48.html
http://www.peafowl-farm.com/Home-En...ator-E/Album-PMI-TN-E40/album-pmi-tn-e40.html
They have a scaled look since there feathers are like a scale, full and rounded.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Those pictures are from Pfauenfreund.

 

[casportpony]

So what would they look like on a hen?

-Kathy

 

[AugeredIn]

So what would they look like on a hen?

-Kathy

Almost identical. That was why i made the point about him saying there was no green blood.