Those who need help in sexing peafowl

[casportpony]

Kathy,here in the midwest we are known for raising some great beef with corn.Unlike grass fed cattle the cattle grows much faster on corn so the muscles are not tough because of age.Corn helps develope fat and fat adds flavor. You ever eat at Arby's? The beef they use is from Holstein cattle. It is seasoned well and slow cooked because a Holstein cow is not a beef variety,they were bred to produce milk not convert feed to muscle mass.A beef variety can reach market weight at about 14 months of age where a holstein can take 18-20 months because they do not convert feed as well. Point being,there isn't much better than a Prime Rib roast,slow roasted with horseradish sauce,green onions and a heavy red wine like Concord. Add a baked potatoe and sour creme and butter and viola-!!5000 calories to digest and work off

Got to be honest, my only experience with beef if what I get at the store or, the rare occasion, a steak house. I can tell you that my favorites are fillet mignon, rib-eye (bone in) and prime rib, always rare with horseradish! And with a nice red wine, what a great meal!

On a similar note (food related, lol), I ate my first home raised duck! I happened to find her just after a hawk had killed her, so I processed her her (no damage to her intestines) and baked her. Too bad I over cooked her, maybe next time I'll do better.

-Kathy

 

[Birdrain92]

How ironic I just read that thread today though it's kind of confusing but I get it.

 

[kuntrygirl]

For me it like lamb with mint jelly or steak with horseradish, it's a must have!

-Kathy

Did someone say lamb? Grass fed from the yard.

 

[AnimalsRmyLife]

Did someone say lamb? Grass fed from the yard.

Wow! Nice looking lamb!

 

[kuntrygirl]

 
I'm confused I thought like all peafowl are sex links except white because they are white? I thought sex link means the male and female have different plumages. What do you mean by no doubt you're guess was correct or if the birds or switched. That doesn't seem fair to switch birds on me.

I think you are confusing the term sex linked with the term sexual dimorphism. Sexual dimorphism is the difference between males an females of a same species like the plumage and of course sexual dimorphism is very evident in birds.

This is copied from the peafowl stickies about sex-linked peafowl (I am not interested in raising sex-linked varieties so I am quoting this since I am not a sex-link expert):

Sex-linked Colors
The current sex-linked colors are Purple, Cameo, Peach, and Sonja's Violeta (the newest). These colors do not transfer between birds like normal colors. Instead they travel on the gender chromosomes. Males must have 2 copies of the allele to display the color but females only need 1 copy. For the sake of simplicity, I will show the transference of the color when bred to a Blue. I will use purple as the sex-linked color. I will add pictures of punnet squares for visual examples when I get the time to use a scanner.
Purple male x Blue female = Blue split Purple males and Purple females
Purple female x Blue male = Blue split Purple males and Blue females
When a sex-linked color is bred to a blue split to its own color (ie purple bred to split purple), males and females of the sex-linked color can be produced. Remember that blues split to sex-linked colors will ALWAYS be male (see below). Additionally, the sex-linked colors will breed true when bred to itself.
Purple female x Blue split Purple male = Blue split Purple males, Purple males, Blue females, and Purple females
Purple male x purple female = Purple males and Purple females
No female will ever be split to a sex-linked color, because they only need 1 copy to display the color. A female with the gene will always be the sex-linked color. I will use Purple again as my sex-linked color for an example.
Purple male x Opal female = Blue split Purple/Opal males and Purple split Opal females
When two sex linked colors are bred together, the male offspring will be blue split the colors of the parents and the females will be the color of the father. Let's use Peach and Purple as our two sex-linked colors.
Peach male x Purple female = Blue split Peach/Purple males and Peach females
If you were to go insane and decide to breed the children of the pairing above together, it would be awesome and look something like this:
Blue split Peach/Purple male x Peach female = Peach males, Blue split Purple/Peach males, peach females, purple females
 
A note on Peach color: The current theory is that Peach is an interaction of the Purple and Cameo colors. If that is true, a Peach bird will necessarily be "split" Purple and Cameo, and could produce either when bred.

I love Gyros!!!

 

[kuntrygirl]

 
Kathy,here in the midwest we are known for raising some great beef with corn.Unlike grass fed cattle the cattle grows much faster on corn so the muscles are not tough because of age.Corn helps develope fat and fat adds flavor. You ever eat at Arby's? The beef they use is from Holstein cattle. It is seasoned well and slow cooked because a Holstein cow is not a beef variety,they were bred to produce milk not convert feed to muscle mass.A beef variety can reach market weight at about 14 months of age where a holstein can take 18-20 months because they do not convert feed as well. Point being,there isn't much better than a Prime Rib roast,slow roasted with horseradish sauce,green onions and a heavy red wine like Concord. Add a baked potatoe and sour creme and butter and viola-!!5000 calories to digest and work off

Got to be honest, my only experience with beef if what I get at the store or, the rare occasion, a steak house. I can tell you that my favorites are fillet mignon, rib-eye (bone in) and prime rib, always rare with horseradish! And with a nice red wine, what a great meal!

On a similar note (food related, lol), I ate my first home raised duck! I happened to find her just after a hawk had killed her, so I processed her her (no damage to her intestines) and baked her. Too bad I over cooked her, maybe next time I'll do better.

-Kathy

Duck is soooo good!

 

[kuntrygirl]

Did someone say lamb? Grass fed from the yard.

Wow! Nice looking lamb!

Thank you. He was delicious. I have 2 more to take to the butcher for the freezer for this year. I can't wait. I could eat lamb every day.

 

[casportpony]

Duck is soooo good!

I won't over cook the next one, lol.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Did someone say lamb? Grass fed from the yard.

Yummy!

-Kathy

 

[kuntrygirl]

Duck is soooo good!

I won't over cook the next one, lol.

-Kathy

LOL

We like to do duck gumbo down in South Louisiana.