We are new owners of peacocks

[casportpony]

these are the new pics of my two babies, they were being very photogenic today

although we were unable to catch them to get a pic of their wings, I hope that their good enough to maybe tell if we may have a male and female

You have two very pretty girls! If you can weigh them and they weigh under 3kg they probably hatched this year, but if they are over 3kg, they are probably at least a year old.

Disckaimer: Not an expert as I've only had peafowl for 4.5 years.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Eye color is another way to tell how old they are... Adults haves brown eyes, younger ones are gray, but I'm not sure when they change from gray to brown.
-Kathy

 

[BYC-user-174785]

I would also say two hens, since they have no barring and their neck feathers have a white outline giving a scaled look.

 

[3BirdGirlz]

Two pretty girls!

 

[KayLove80]

Darn, we were hoping for one of each oh well we love them anyway

now don't laugh but being new to peafowl, what is "barring"? And if anyone saw the bigger pics I was able to post last night I add one more pic of how dirty they were from being in such deplorable conditions before I rescued them, can we bathe them to get that stuff off? And if so do we just use warm water? and their eyes are gray

 

[Birdrain92]

Don't drench them completely down. What you can do with a hose is put a kink in it so it's barely trickling and use your hand to wipe the mud and muck off of the feathers. Be very gentle with the feathers, take a blow drier and blow them dry or you could use a towel and dry them off as much. The feathers do have oils to have the water bead up and roll off but the oils will only protect the feathers from only so much water for so long. You can get your fingers wet and then wash the feathers is another way that way the bird is soaking wet and you don't have to try and dry them so long. Getting your hands and fingers wet would be the best way in my opinion for peafowl. I was in 4-H that's were I learned how to wash birds, though I had ducks so they did it themselves. I'm in FFA now so I'm still involved with animals and ag. I think you may have to females because they look like Indian Blue peafowl so if they were was a male the neck should have little bit more blue. Barring is on the shoulder like this
See how the male has feathers that are striped that go black and white. That's what barring is.

 

[Birdrain92]

Make sure that the water isn't too cold nor to hot, if the temperature is cold you might not be able to give your peachicks a bath for a while. If it rains or snows and the snow melts or if they get in the snow it might wash off. They will clean themselves they just might need a source of water to get their beaks wet so they can get the feathers clean. I'm sure they will do it themselves.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

KayLove80, this is barring on a peacock:





Compare to the mom:


You do have two hens, and there has already been good advice given as to how to wash them. Are you interested in a peacock for them? You can check the UPA's breeder directory for breeders in your state.

 

[Birdrain92]

I edited the post so we don't get another post like the one before. It shows my IB pair. Can't argue that I have a male and female IB.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Okay. That picture of the pair is a great reference.