Those who need help in sexing peafowl

[zazouse]

That's why he never asks for peachicks he get adults that are 4 to 5 years old most of the time. When there that old you can easily tell. Calypso has not even a drop of green peafowl blood in her. Neither does Thor. When you pick the bird up yourself you know what you're looking for. They started with IBs then worked their way to whites, purples, pied, silver pied, cameo, and BS. 1 and 6 are the only ones right. There is a peacock under the 6. Legs aren't a good source, Jadea has dark legs just like Calypso. Is everybody going to change their mind now that I said that and how when I get a breast feather that everybody wanted to see to prove what sex Thor is and when I get it then everybody denies that it can't be a male though I've had people come and take a look at this feather and compare it to other male feathers and they tell me how can you say that feather is a peahen when it's obviously a peacock feather.

No papers no pedigree
Once again one feather will not yeild much info when a youngun is changing so much , feathers on a young hen can be may colors depending o the area it came from.

The feathers in the photos below came from the same hen just a different area of the neck.

 

[DylansMom]

Calypso has not even a drop of green peafowl blood in her. Neither does Thor.

What proof do you or the people you got them from have to back this up? I don't think that any other member on this forum would be foolish enough to make a claim like this because we all know that a bird can have green blood that hasn't shown evidence of it's presence for the last 10 generations. Just because you haven't seen it for several breedings doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Many years ago I bought a BS spalding chick, when he was full grown he was identical to my other BS males, his neck wasn't greener, his legs were not longer, his crest was that of a blue, You literally could not tell him apart. Obviously a very low % spalding, but a spalding nonetheless(Unless of course the breeder lied). I could have easily passed him off as a "Pure" IB BS. BUT...... I do not make claims that I cannot back up with proof, so I represent all of my birds as "this appears to be a BS but could be carrying other genes" or "I think this is a IB split pied, it was sold to me as such and so far the chicks it produces have backed this up, but there is always a chance it could carry something else". This way when some other color or pattern does show up 3 generations down the line, I do not look like a complete Idiot.

 

[zazouse]

Feathers from different areas on a young peacock.




a single feather looks nothing like it does when in a group

 

[pedda munnangi]

IF I may add , the spalldings, like the javas or other greens, have a much tighter and taller crest that one can clearly see and also varying degree of yellow very faint, or light, to, dark yellow on the face around the eye

 

[Yoda]

Birdrain look at the pictures below and tell me what you see? I will give you multiple choice to make it easier for you. The peacock in back of the chicks is a Charcoal and same male in bottom picture. Unfortunately he was poisoned so I no longer have him or his son (pictured here too). Looking at the hen next to him in the bottom photo, she looks like a regular IB hen but she is in fact an IB split to charcoal split to pied, but shows no white on her at all except a tiny little piece on her chin. Is he:
A - Charcoal
B - Charcoal White Eye
C - Charcoal Pied
D - Charcoal Silver Pied
E - Charcoal White eye split to Silver Pied

Looks can be deceiving my friend




The point is without KNOWING what genes are actually in the bird you cannot say it isn't there cause the bird doesn't show it. Out of this pair I got IB, pieds, charcoals and whites all split charcoal except the actual charcoals LOL Big color variety

 

[DylansMom]

Birdrain : Part 2 of the quiz. Look at this hen, she was sold to me by a reputable breeder in my area, as a pure IB BS. For 3 years I had her paired w/ an

IB BS male, all chicks produced for 3 consecutive years were IB BS, they showed no white flights or throat latches. Based on this and her appearance what would you guess she is, genetically speaking?

 

[Birdrain92]

I'm going with Charcoal White Eye split to a Silver Pied. If Calypso was a Spalding would Thor be a Spalding as well? The answers for my photo are from left to right and bottom for last.
1) IB M
2-4) BS split to IB 2 Pairs
5) BS M
6) IB M

 

[Birdrain92]

By IB BS are you saying the chicks are a Split with IB BS or are you saying you got IB and BS chicks because If the male is a IB BS split and it's breed to a hen that appears to be an IB BS split then the chicks can be splits, IB, or BS. I thought BS peachicks had little color on the flight but still had white.

 

[pedda munnangi]

Any peacock with one copy of white eye gene shows a few oscilli ( about 20 or so ) with white in the middle contrary to with two copies where all the oscilli in his train show white. Split pied peafowl do not show white at all, any where as much as my observation goes. But, a darkpied ( with two copies of pied gene) does show white flights as well as a white throat patch. The hen in the top picture, is not showing any green on her neck. what all I see is charcoal. Therefore, I rule OUT Indiablue. Pieds and silverpieds pictures have been posted several times. we all have seen, none of the subjects in these pictures look like them. In the bottom picture I see a pied ( with one white and a pied gene) bird on the floor besides a white.

 

[Yoda]

I'm going with Charcoal White Eye split to a Silver Pied. If Calypso was a Spalding would Thor be a Spalding as well? The answers for my photo are from left to right and bottom for last.
1) IB M
2-4) BS split to IB 2 Pairs
5) BS M
6) IB M

2-5 are IBBS when someone says BS they are refering to the IBBS so they cannot be split to IB. Depending on how much black is on the IB male's wings he can be split to BS.

Yes the last choice was the right one but looking at the bird you would never know. Thus keeping good records will help you to know what you have. Buying adult birds and only going by looks will give you a surprise. Thora could have spalding in her just not showing it.
You picture contains 7 birds - 6 on the railing and one beneath the railing