Those who need help in sexing peafowl

[casportpony]

Okay, I think I'm starting to understand, lol.

-Kathy

 

[Birdrain92]

Today Thor has more white.

 

[Dany12]

More ... and more white ! ... I hope not!
Look at the last bird on this video!

 

[casportpony]

Today Thor has more white.

The bottom picture in your above post is the exact same picture that you posted on the 12-21-13, right?

This is the picture from 12-21-13:


Doesn't matter, Thor still looks like a hen to me. If you're planning on showing a pair at the fair, poultry show or whatever, I think you're going to be disappointed!

-Kathy

 

[Birdrain92]

I wonder how old the peacock is though. Maybe age is the cause of that because one of my chickens is 13 years old and she is an Old English and now she almost looks like a white leghorn bantam and she has one eye that is getting foggy. If it's a young peacock, Thor don't be like that peacock. I wonder what causes peafowl that have a pied gene start to go whiter and whiter. Thor is very young and his eyes look just fine, he appears healthy. I'm not deathly worried about Thor turning white because my neighbor has had a rare occasion were the peachick is barely any white and then gets lots of white, then stops and the peachicks haven't gone blind. The photo is from 12/21/13. Why?

 

[casportpony]

I wonder how old the peacock is though. Maybe age is the cause of that because one of my chickens is 13 years old and she is an Old English and now she almost looks like a white leghorn bantam and she has one eye that is getting foggy. If it's a young peacock, Thor don't be like that peacock. I wonder what causes peafowl that have a pied gene start to go whiter and whiter. Thor is very young and his eyes look just fine, he appears healthy. I'm not deathly worried about Thor turning white because my neighbor has had a rare occasion were the peachick is barely any white and then gets lots of white, then stops and the peachicks haven't gone blind. The photo is from 12/21/13. Why?

Because you said Thora was getting more white, but I can't see a difference.

-Kathy

 

[AnimalsRmyLife]

Because you said Thora was getting more white, but I can't see a difference.

-Kathy

Are you looking at Thor(a)'s front part of the neck? The white patch on the front of the neck has seemed to go down towards the chest some more.

 

[casportpony]

Are you looking at Thor(a)'s front part of the neck? The white patch on the front of the neck has seemed to go down towards the chest some more.

Get a permanent marker and draw a line just below the solid white, that's the only way to tell for sure.

-Kathy

 

[AugeredIn]

Listen, I really am a nice guy and I promise I am not trying to be mean. I have not hatched a thousand peafowl but I have hatched in the hundreds the last two years. I have certainly been confused on peafowl sex before and I have personally witnessed two of the biggest breeders debate the sex of a bird but really, no kidding now, this is as simple as it gets, Thor is a hen. She is also almost certainly the product of a blue and green mix somewhere back in her lineage although she looks mostly IB.

If you want to show a pair you need to go find a male.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

An old saying I was told when I was younger AugeredIN,,"Kids,you giv'em books,and keep giving them books and all they do is look at the pictures" I'm grinning here at your frustration.But it's because I too easily see it's a hen. Maybe our combined hatchings the past few years just gave us pictures to look at,instead of sexing abilities? Maybe when this hen is old enough to breed and all that happens is unfertile eggs are being laid,maybe a lite will come on ?? The extremely long,narrow tunnel vision gets ya everytime.