Those who need help in sexing peafowl

[Birdrain92]

Now Calypso has a tiny spot that causes her to limp and it's on the bottom of the back toe like if it was caused by chicken wire. The leg no longer bothers her but doing so much work with her makes it really easy to handle her more than before. It is healing fast. There is only a limp if it touches the tiny wound on the toe otherwise she is perfect. Is it possible for an IB peahen to have a speckled breast without Spalding? I've been finding photos of pure IB Pied peahens without any spalding blood but it's one of those rare things from what I've seen. I just want to see if it's possible or some mutation that happens every now and then. I know that Calypso doesn't contain any Spalding peafowl relatives.

 

[Birdrain92]

The only thing I know about Spalding peafowl is they have green peafowl blood in them their crest is bunched together really tight and some times have a yellow lorus and some have speckled breasts but Calypso has only the speckled breast her crest feathers try to spread apart but they are bent down to her head. When she was really young it was a fan shape but now it's bent over not sure why.

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Hmm..."speckled breast"...

 

[Birdrain92]

I mean for a peahen not a peacock.

 

[new 2 pfowl]

"Mr Calypso"?

 

[Birdrain92]

When you guys said the neck feather on a male is like a scale while on a hen it's round what do you mean by that? Can you post a pic of a peahen and peacock neck feather side by side.

 

[Birdrain92]

Calypso is a hen the breast, base of neck is too small to be a hen not enough muscle.

 

[casportpony]

When you guys said the neck feather on a male is like a scale while on a hen it's round what do you mean by that? Can you post a pic of a peahen and peacock neck feather side by side.

Side by side pictures of male and female neck feathers

















-Kathy

 

[Birdrain92]

Side by side pictures of male and female neck feathers

















-Kathy

I can see that the tips of the feathers are longer on males and split apart instead of all bunched up like the hen. Thank you. Is that the only difference other than color?

 

[new 2 pfowl]

"Monsieur Calypso"?