How to identify a Spaulding peafowl

[KsKingBee]

To add to Dany's opinion you can add the triangular head, longer neck and legs and beak, thinner and leaner body, flightiness, darker green in the neck, and less friendly as the percentage goes up. And the trill of their call is a dead giveaway too.

Here are a few pics of a four month Spaulding hen.

 

[Dany12]

Cross between a peacock Pavo Muticus (green peacock) and a peahen Pavo cristatus (india blue) gives a spalding 50%.
The male and female peachick receives 50% of its genome from its mother and 50% from its father.
Imagine an aviary with a cock Pavo muticus and 5 peahens
1 - peahen Blue black shoulder.
2 - peahen Sonjas Violeta.
3 - peahen Montana black shoulder.
4 - Purple peahen.
5 - Bronze peahen.

The phenotype of all young males will be the same .... their genotypes will be different
The genotype of the females will be different ► appearance of females spalding 50% Sonjas Violeta and Spalding 50% Purple.

There has never been a demonstration in pictures of that!

 

[Dany12]

That's the theory ...!
The first cross gives spalding 50% turquoise color ... rare color!

Is it because of the Black shoulder pattern?

 

[KsKingBee]

Cross between a peacock Pavo Muticus (green peacock) and a peahen Pavo cristatus (india blue) gives a spalding 50%.
The male and female peachick receives 50% of its genome from its mother and 50% from its father.
Imagine an aviary with a cock Pavo muticus and 5 peahens
1 - peahen Blue black shoulder.
2 - peahen Sonjas Violeta.
3 - peahen Montana black shoulder.
4 - Purple peahen.
5 - Bronze peahen.

The phenotype of all young males will be the same .... their genotypes will be different
The genotype of the females will be different ► appearance of females spalding 50% Sonjas Violeta and Spalding 50% Purple.

There has never been a demonstration in pictures of that!

There can't be, Montana has not been developed in BS yet.

 

[Rosa moschata]

These green blue feathers does not exist on the pure blue peacock! This is the sign of the influence of blood of the green peacock.

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The bird pictured is split to Black-Shoulder, which shows partially in males. The "green blue feathers" are also seen in the IB male in the picture you posted previously, but they're buried within the normal barred pattern on the wings. This does not discount possible green blood -- some, in fact, say the Black-Shoulder mutation arose from early crosses with one of the greens, but that's not for sure -- but what you indicated is not, in and of itself, evidence of the bird being a Spalding.

 

[Dany12]

The bird pictured is split to Black-Shoulder, which shows partially in males.

I want to see ONE .... only ONE picture of a female with the BS split color!
It doesn't make sense ... males all the time and females ultra rare!

The first BS appeared in a flock of peacocks in a garden of an English Lord around 1820!

This is something else ...!

 

[Dany12]

 

[Dany12]

 

[KsKingBee]

I want to see ONE .... only ONE picture of a female with the BS split color!
It doesn't make sense ... males all the time and females ultra rare!

The first BS appeared in a flock of peacocks in a garden of an English Lord around 1820!

This is something else ...!View attachment 1585201

Black Shoulder is not a color, it is a pattern.

 

[Rosa moschata]

I never understood the point of "pattern vs color" designation, other than to continue the now disproved notion that peafowl can have multiple pattern mutations, but just one color mutation. It's actually somewhat amusing to me how this "pattern vs color" mantra gets carefully repeated on a bunch of websites about peafowl, but then things get sloppy when genetics is attempted to be explained.