Those who need help in sexing peafowl

[zazouse]

I learned that peacock doesn't get an ocelli until they are 2 years old. If that is a 6 month old peacock then he's really growing up fast. I was researching peafowl before I got Colbolt and Jadea and I read that a peahen can breed and lay an egg a fertile egg when they are one year old but breed to a 3 years or older. Is that true?

all these peacocks are under 17 months except the one in the right hand corner and he will be 3 in Aug of this year. my first 1 year olds layed eggs but my male had already dropped his small train so no peachicks but the same birds produced offspring the next year .so i believe had my male still had a train the eggs could have been fertile.

 

[margaret8]

oddly enough my pied girls display more than my male. but the cameo and ib hen hardly ever display.
my theory? the girls enjoy showin off their pretty colors.
so far my male only displays to the ducks  go figure..

This my IB female at 5 months!

 

[casportpony]

Hope you guys and gals know that I *do* know females display, mine do it, just not as often as the boys. Seems like whenever I walk outside at least one male in every aviary is doing it and they do it to peas, turkeys, chickens, pigeons, guineas, ducks, geese, cats, dogs, etc.

-Kathy

 

[margaret8]

Hope you guys and gals know that I *do* know females display, mine do it, just not as often as the boys. Seems like whenever I walk outside at least one male in every aviary is doing it and they do it to peas, turkeys, chickens, pigeons, guineas, ducks, geese, cats, dogs, etc.

-Kathy

Mine ( at their tender age) display anybody and everybody!

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Birdrain92, where do you get that info for? It is not right as Kathy said.

Zazouse, that hen that looks like Thora has white tips on here feathers. Is that a sign of white eye?

 

[zazouse]

Birdrain92, where do you get that info for? It is not right as Kathy said.

Zazouse, that hen that looks like Thora has white tips on here feathers. Is that a sign of white eye?

That is what they say, i have one pied peacock with what i guess is suppose to be white eyed but i do not care for its white eye, looks like someone dabbed white paint down the feather shaft, i will not get much money for those , i have been trying to get a photo of his open train to post a photo but he always has been a shy fanner so most of the time i miss having the camera when he does.

Update i found a photo of the white eyed, i will post it in show off your peas.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Oh okay. That is kind of how my bronze white eye and bronze progressive pied are right now. I have some pictures of my peafowl from this winter that I never uploaded, that I will probably share in show off your peas.

 

[Birdrain92]

Colbolt didn't get an ocelli until he was about 2 years and 9 months old. Jadea didn't lay until she was the same age. Your peafowl must develop fast cause the area I'm at our peafowl didn't get trains until they were around two years old and hens weren't laying til then.

 

[Birdrain92]

This was when Colbolt was 2 years and 9 months.

 

[Birdrain92]

Compared to your peafowl my peafowl are slow. I'm talking about Colbolt and Jadea. Wish my peafowl developed that fast. Those peafowl are around 2 years though but they still develop fast. So I could get chicks out of yearlings hens, though they are slim chances but it's possible correct? Could males breed that early. My info came from peacockparaadise.com were the person stated that usually the common age for the peafowl to breed/grow a train is two years old to three. Though they have gotten yearling hens to produce chicks. Almost every website I look at says they can only breed when they are 2 to 3 years old and some of those websites say there is some hens that will have fertile eggs as yearlings and they say that they had a mature male which was 3 years old or older. I guess though you can have males with a good train little younger then 2 years old and even a 6 month old peacock surprisingly.