Those who need help in sexing peafowl

[Birdrain92]

I'm sorry for the confusion, my aunt is a vet she has like barely any experience with peafowl. The person I bought Thor and Calypso from they helped me out with the feed and what I should feed them. My aunt is a vet and the person I got Thor and Calypso from his family has been raising them for 30 years. I hope this clears the confusion on that little speed bump, sorry for the confusion. I don't think I will create a new color of peafowl. If I did I can tell you one thing, it was an accident. I'm 15 and will be 16 in a month. That's me. I know you guys want me to listen but something about Thor just makes me feel like he's a male and it's not like some weak feeling like it's one of those feelings that just has it so I can't deny it and I have found evidence of him being male tried proving that in a picture but the photo is just to blurry. Also the evidence is gone because I had it on a dresser and then when I was vacuuming my room the vacuum sucked it up and then I didn't realize it tell it was to late. I've learned from this thread such as the difference in shaped between a peahen and a peacock's neck feather. I know you guys don't believe me when saying I'm certain of it. I would hate it if Thor did turn out to be a hen but I would still love him. Also the coloring of the barring I don't know if that is 100% correct as well as the primary feathers because here is when Calypso was a 2 weeks old and I'm pretty sure everybody would agree when I say Calypso is a female. I see some rust color in the barring similar to the photo.

 

[Birdrain92]

If Calypso is a male and Thor is a female then I will just have to switch the names around.

 

[Birdrain92]

Let me make a correction I thought the feather was vacuumed up and I missed placed it and didn't even realize it until now. I'm working on getting a good quality photo though.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Just a side note from so many pages ago, when my India Blue peahen was incubating her eggs, I took her eggs from the nest when she took off the nest honking to go and eat, and the eggs were not warm like from an incubator. Yes, it did seem like she was not warming them much, but they hatched just fine, and the babies grew up fine. Peahens have it all under control.

I might as well say say that this is a peacock:

and this is a hen:


That is how I feel you are about your stubbornness and you being oblivious to the fact that a peacock at the age of Thora would have a BLUE neck, not green with white lacing. Plus, Thora does not have barring like a peacock! Once again, I am the same age as you, you are a few months older, and I can sex peafowl just fine. I can even sex my peach silver pied peafowl even when there is very little actual coloring to sex them by. Sexing peafowl is something very simple for me, but do not get me wrong, I am not always right. Just like my bronze progressive pieds. That is something newer that I have the ability to work with.

 

[zazouse]

 

[DylansMom]

Twins!

 

[Birdrain92]

Zaz you just showed that the shape of Thor's feathers are not right to be a hen. To much white on the edges to be a hen, the shape doesn't match either.

 

[DylansMom]

Zaz you just showed that the shape of Thor's feathers are not right to be a hen. To much white on the edges to be a hen, the shape doesn't match either.

The white edges on a hen's feathers varies from 1 hen to another. I have several hens and they are not identical. As far as feather shape, I can see no discernible difference here. What you are seeing are the subtle differences between 2 hens, at this age the differences between a male and a hen are no longer subtle at all. I realize you have a "gut feeling" about Thor being a male and that's fine, but take my advice and don't ever go to Vegas.

 

[zazouse]

Zaz you just showed that the shape of Thor's feathers are not right to be a hen. To much white on the edges to be a hen, the shape doesn't match either.

You are so hard headed.

 

[zazouse]

Is this better for ya? they all look different