Those who need help in sexing peafowl

[zazouse]

Animalsaremylife I find it hard to believe that you can not see the difference in male and female after all the info that has been posted.

Thore is not a late bloomer she has just been miss-labled by her owner because he has a gut feeling.

Blue feather green feather don't matter at this age, Thore has no male barring and how you two think she is gonna catch up and get some is beyond me, heck my young males are starting to get their adult barring which means Thore is a couple bar moltings behind if she was to be a he.

 

[AnimalsRmyLife]

I will be glad when they decide weather Thor is a boy or girl! Time will tell......

I will be happy at whichever Thor turns out to be too. I've met Thor in person, and s/he is a sweet little Peafowl!

 

[AnimalsRmyLife]

Animalsaremylife I find it hard to believe that you can not see the difference in male and female after all the info that has been posted.

Thore is not a late bloomer she has just been miss-labled by her owner because he has a gut feeling.

Blue feather green feather don't matter at this age, Thore has no male barring and how you two think she is gonna catch up and get some is beyond me, heck my young males are starting to get their adult barring which means Thore is a couple bar moltings behind if she was to be a he.

Ok. As I have said many times before, I will respect whichever gender Thor turns out to be in the end and my respect for you veterans & your vast knowledge of peafowl will be greater than I already have for all of you. Through this thread, I've actually learned quite a lot from you guys, and I thank you for that. I will admit I am new to the world and wonders of the beautiful peafowl and I'm willing to learn from mistakes and correct myself as needed.

Then could you please tell me, how can you tell male barring from female barring? I truthfully thought barring was just barring for all peafowl and didn't know there was a difference between male and female for it.

 

[zazouse]

Ok. As I have said many times before, I will respect whichever gender Thor turns out to be in the end and my respect for you veterans & your vast knowledge of peafowl will be greater than I already have for all of you. Through this thread, I've actually learned quite a lot from you guys, and I thank you for that. I will admit I am new to the world and wonders of the beautiful peafowl and I'm willing to learn from mistakes and correct myself as needed.

Then could you please tell me, how can you tell male barring from female barring? I truthfully thought barring was just barring for all peafowl and didn't know there was a difference between male and female for it.

IB peahens lack the overall barring like the peacocks , peacocks barring changes colors a few times as it gets it's big bird feathers, peahens on the other hand will get their solid dark feathers.
These are what the second set of barrd feathers look like on a young peacock.

overall barring

Young females

2 young males getting their big boy feathers on3rd molt

Hen showing her lacy tail feathers

2 peacocks . one on lest has his 2nd molt feathers, one on the right still has his first baby barring.

 

[DylansMom]

Ok. As I have said many times before, I will respect whichever gender Thor turns out to be in the end and my respect for you veterans & your vast knowledge of peafowl will be greater than I already have for all of you. Through this thread, I've actually learned quite a lot from you guys, and I thank you for that. I will admit I am new to the world and wonders of the beautiful peafowl and I'm willing to learn from mistakes and correct myself as needed.

Then could you please tell me, how can you tell male barring from female barring? I truthfully thought barring was just barring for all peafowl and didn't know there was a difference between male and female for it.

Just another picture. Male up close, see the overall barring, starting to turn green on the back where it will eventually show the greenish-gold shell feathers. Under his tail end is a hen, notice there is very little barring on her anywhere other than the lacey looking pattern on her tail. The male also has no brown feathers left on his head, they are all blueish green now. These 2 birds were both hatched last July, making them very close to Thor's age.

 

[casportpony]

Just another picture. Male up close, see the overall barring, starting to turn green on the back where it will eventually show the greenish-gold shell feathers. Under his tail end is a hen, notice there is very little barring on her anywhere other than the lacey looking pattern on her tail. The male also has no brown feathers left on his head, they are all blueish green now. These 2 birds were both hatched last July, making them very close to Thor's age.

Excellent example of a young male! -Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Animalsaremylife I find it hard to believe that you can not see the difference in male and female after all the info that has been posted.

Thore is not a late bloomer she has just been miss-labled by her owner because he has a gut feeling.

Blue feather green feather don't matter at this age, Thore has no male barring and how you two think she is gonna catch up and get some is beyond me, heck my young males are starting to get their adult barring which means Thore is a couple bar moltings behind if she was to be a he.

I'm getting the sense that she *does* think Thor is female, but doesn't want to hurt birdrain's feelings.

-Kathy

 

[DylansMom]

Excellent example of a young male!

-Kathy

Thank you! He is "Chirpy", one of my accidentally imprinted ones, who will probably end up attacking me some day!

 

[Birdrain92]

Just another picture. Male up close, see the overall barring, starting to turn green on the back where it will eventually show the greenish-gold shell feathers. Under his tail end is a hen, notice there is very little barring on her anywhere other than the lacey looking pattern on her tail. The male also has no brown feathers left on his head, they are all blueish green now. These 2 birds were both hatched last July, making them very close to Thor's age.

That's a spalding. The crest is bunched together and young males don't get green like that. But he's still pretty.

 

[Birdrain92]

Thor just started molting at the begging of the year and still molting and it's his first molt yet. Also If a Bronze pied peacock can go from that dark to barring I think an IB Pied can do so too. Isn't it called the Progressive PIED. Which Bronzes don't do that naturally they need the Pied gene so all peafowl with the Pied gene can have that happen rare by the looks of it since I've seen this 3 times now. I'm pretty sure that means Thor can have it. All of the photos taken on the 1/18 they are of different angles and a majority of the color remains the same.