to leave or take them?

[DAS]

For the brooding, probably not but you should keep an eye on them when putting them together. Even if they are the same age they can have problems.

India blue isn't a color, it's a species name. So your whites and pieds ARE India blue whites and india blue pieds. If they were another color (let's say opal, my favorite) they would be called opal pieds, but they'd still be India blue peafowl (as opposed to java green). If you bred a white to anything other than a white, you'd get a blue bird (with white flights) unless it's carrying the blackshoulder gene and you bred it to a blackshoulder, in which case you'd get blackshoulder chicks with white flights. The one with white flights probably means that he is split to white or split to pied (more likely split to white, as split to pied somethings doesn't show white flights). There's no way to tell visually that the birds carry the solid wing genes, that's something you'd discover through breeding.

You should be able to tell the gender of the birds by around 3 months except for the white, which we can probably tell you by about 6 months if you can get us a picture of its tail feathers from behind, fanned (not the train feathers, the actual tail feathers).

India blue is a peafowl color. They are whites and pieds of the Indian species. If they were anything else, they would be called spaldings.

The species are:

• Indian Peafowl, Pavo cristatus, a resident breeder in South Asia. The peacock is designated as the national bird ofIndia and the provincial bird of Punjab.
• Green Peafowl, Pavo muticus. Breeds from Burma east to Java. The IUCN lists the Green Peafowl as vulnerable to extinction due to hunting and a reduction in extent and quality of habitat.
• Congo Peafowl Afropavo congensis.

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A White Peacock​

Quoted from Wikipedia

 

[Kedreeva]

yes Das, that's what I was trying to say.

 

[NCblackshoulder]

Hi,

I would leave them under her the entire time. She probably would make a good mommy too. It's all about personal preference. After several costly losses trying to use an incubator, I have since started using my French Cuckoo Marans hen(s) to sit on the eggs, hatch the eggs and raise the pea chicks. I also have a bantam cochin that made a great mommy. There are plenty of people who will tell you not to do that because of worms, blackhead, etc. My personal experience has been wonderful using this method.