What kind of peahen is this?

[casportpony]

Green peafowl are taller than IB peafowl not necessarily bigger.

I've never seen any, much less weighed any, lol, I just looked on the web and the page I saw said:
"The adult male weighs 3.85–5 kg (8.5–11 lb), which is around 4 times as heavy as the adult female, at 1–1.2 kg (2.2–2.6 lb)."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Peafowl

Don't know how accurate the above info is, but I do know for a fact that my IB hens weigh 3-4kg and the males weigh 4-6kg, and you all know how funny I am about weighing, lol.

-Kathy

 

[Dany12]

Spalding are also bigger .... 'the hybrid effect '!
Shape, maintaining ... they are winners ... conquerors! .... they are proud terminators

 

[zazouse]

I was told that any amount of green blood in a IB , would make the bird a spalding, so birds can have a little green blood or alot don't matter they are still spaldings.
This is the trio some of my spaldings came from, all have green blood.

This is one of their offspring

I have 2 white males from this trio also.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Spalding are also bigger .... 'the hybrid effect '!
Shape, maintaining ... they are winners ... conquerors! .... they are proud terminators

Are those your pictures? What is a green doing there?

 

[SDpeafowl]

I will post some more detailed pictures later on today for you guys to look at.

 

[Birdrain92]

I think I'm starting to see it

 

[MinxFox]

What about wild India Blues though? The true wild ones are very tall and thin looking. Are they as tall as green peafowl?

Wild India Blues
1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/meghnasejpal/203579836/in/faves-minxfox/lightbox/
2. http://www.flickr.com/photos/89201722@N00/9155687132/in/faves-minxfox/lightbox/
3. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramitsingal/5800833074/in/faves-minxfox/lightbox/
4. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xFj3v_51f...k+National+bird+of+India+by+desi+Traveler.jpg
5. http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/graceful-peacock-avneet-mangat.jpg
6. http://us.123rf.com/450wm/galdzer/g...n-the-wild-the-national-park-of-sri-lanka.jpg

Sorry for getting off topic a little. I just think it is funny that people breed green peafowl to India blue varieties to get tall, lean looking birds when the true wild type India blue is very tall and nice looking. It would be nice to have pure India Blues like that, but the domestic ones we have in the US are probably much tamer and more adapted.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

What about wild India Blues though? The true wild ones are very tall and thin looking. Are they as tall as green peafowl?

Wild India Blues
1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/meghnasejpal/203579836/in/faves-minxfox/lightbox/
2. http://www.flickr.com/photos/89201722@N00/9155687132/in/faves-minxfox/lightbox/
3. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramitsingal/5800833074/in/faves-minxfox/lightbox/
4. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xFj3v_51f...k+National+bird+of+India+by+desi+Traveler.jpg
5. http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/graceful-peacock-avneet-mangat.jpg
6. http://us.123rf.com/450wm/galdzer/g...n-the-wild-the-national-park-of-sri-lanka.jpg

Sorry for getting off topic a little. I just think it is funny that people breed green peafowl to India blue varieties to get tall, lean looking birds when the true wild type India blue is very tall and nice looking. It would be nice to have pure India Blues like that, but the domestic ones we have in the US are probably much tamer and more adapted.

Thanks so much for those links! I love pure India blues so much...and I at least think it is helpful to see. I would think that they compare to pure greens. You do bring up a great point about crossing to green for the characteristics that India Blues once had, but they have been domesticated and probably kept longer than greens (just a guess, do not know for sure). It is a dream of mine to visit India and see wild peafowl, and import some and have a free ranging flock so that they are not negatively affected by a penned environment.