Those who need help in sexing peafowl

[KsKingBee]

OK Thor has already turned out to be a female and you can not change that.

The only real thing you achieved by all this hoopla is that folks will most likely never trust your word about a peafowls gender on this site.

Oh that truth cuts to the bone!

Mother always said, 'There are none so blind as those who will not see'.

 

[DylansMom]

Not just peafowl gender, I'm afraid, but to me it will be every subject. I'm afraid all credibility is long gone. Kind of sad...

-Kathy

I just realized he has his own website called "Poultry Knowledge", now that's what I call a Massive Misnomer. If you have not checked it out you have got to do so. Talk about losing all credibility, here are a few statements of knowledge he makes in his Peafowl section. "People say whites are hard or impossible to sex, but to me they are just as easy as India Blues."

, Whatever color breeds to a white it doesn't become a split it becomes a pied"

, "Pieds come from whites breeding with other varieties."

, "Pied Peafowl are sex links."

, "Black shoulder pattern is a sex link."

Correct me if I am mistaken here, but I don't think any of these statements are true? And I don't think he has the slightest idea what "sex linked" even means. This makes FBC's website project all the more important. There needs to be a source of accurate information out there. As New2 said many posts ago, I am now embarrassed for him as well.

 

[shelbydog]

He's shown he can ID sexes of others' birds. He's just in denial of his own. He wants that hen to be a male so bad that he's pulling at straws to make her a he. He's looking for every tiny 'flaw' on her...the messy neck feather, a dusting of 'orange' on the primaries, the tiniest black line on a feather to say there is barring, a tiny spot of blue. He's got that 'can't see the forest for the trees' mindset. I think his friend knows its hen by now but she's trying to be that good friend that is going to be on his side and support him even if he's wrong.

 

[PlatteRiverPs]

Pied peas are sexlinks?

What?

 

[DylansMom]

Pied peas are sexlinks?

What?

Exactly!

 

[margaret8]

Good one!

 

[country_girl011]

I just realized he has his own website called "Poultry Knowledge", now that's what I call a Massive Misnomer. If you have not checked it out you have got to do so. Talk about losing all credibility, here are a few statements of knowledge he makes in his Peafowl section. "People say whites are hard or impossible to sex, but to me they are just as easy as India Blues."

, Whatever color breeds to a white it doesn't become a split it becomes a pied"

, "Pieds come from whites breeding with other varieties."

, "Pied Peafowl are sex links."

, "Black shoulder pattern is a sex link."

Correct me if I am mistaken here, but I don't think any of these statements are true? And I don't think he has the slightest idea what "sex linked" even means. This makes FBC's website project all the more important. There needs to be a source of accurate information out there. As New2 said many posts ago, I am now embarrassed for him as well.

did you read the other sections?
"they lay small eggs and lay maybe every other day or sometimes only 5 days a week". (my bantam cochins lay every day and all winter lol.)

"Easiest method that works for all breeds of ducks is the male will have a drake feather if it's a drake. When there is no drake feather than it's a hen. Most ducks the hen will have a dark coloring like a forest green on the bill while the drake might be a darker color but not green."

"Flying is a dominant trait, so if you get ducklings that one of the parents is a duck that can fly then the babies will probably be able to fly."

"When Incubating you can get eggs that were layed on different days to hatch on the same day by adjusting the heat to each egg."

"All ducks must be in water to breed but the Indian Runner can breed without water." (my ducks didn't get this memo

)



"How chickens were domesticated was just adding more hours of light to make them think it was summer all year making them lay all year"

 

[zazouse]

More misinformed info
Domestic ducks can't fly. Really? all my ducks can fly some can't get off the ground far but if scared thay can get lift enough to get back to the safety of the pond and my Muscovy's fly from pond to pond here no problem, also my Rouen drakes have green bills and my hens are oaker colored no green what-so ever and my males also grow hen feathers once a year and then molt off to their drake feathers.

 

[casportpony]

Oh, the shame.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Muscovy drakes don't have drake feathers!

-Kathy