Peahen? Peacock? Spaulding? Please, Help Identify this bird!

[1sttimepeamom]

Hi everyone,

My daughter bought a peachick last year and was told it was a blue pied peacock. Great, it's what she wanted! Several months later, the breeder saw the bird again at the county fair and declared it to be a Spaulding peahen.Well, a month ago, she goes out to feed and water and ,lo and behold!, there's an eye feather! Could someone please help us to definitively identify this bird? We would like to know.

Thank you!
Peamom

 

[Phoenix Chicken]

That's a peacock.

 

[peafowlmom]

Looks like an India Blue with some green. There is too much blue to be a spading. Somewhere along the way there was some green in one of it's parents. Definite boy with green.

 

[peafowlmom]

Gorgeous too!

 

[1sttimepeamom]

My humblest apologies for not responding until now. Thank you for your help! He is loved no matter what, but we needed to know his variety for 4H.

We were told he is considered spalding because of the yellow on his face and the green down his back. His primary flight feathers are rusty brown.

It's so confusing!

Thank you all again,
1st Time PeaMom

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Hello 1sttimepeamom!
A belated

, especially to our fabulous and spectacular Pea Corner!
We would love to see more pictures of your pretty boy.
And by the way, he is probably wishing he had a girlfriend about now...why don't you get him some friends?

 

[MinxFox]

My humblest apologies for not responding until now. Thank you for your help! He is loved no matter what, but we needed to know his variety for 4H.

We were told he is considered spalding because of the yellow on his face and the green down his back. His primary flight feathers are rusty brown.

It's so confusing!

Thank you all again,
1st Time PeaMom

Green on a peacock's back does not mean they have green blood in them, but the yellow of the face does. He is definately a spalding though meaning of course he is a hybrid of the India blue and green peafowl. You can also tell that he is a spalding because he has slight scaling in his neck feathers, it is hard to see in the first photo but it is there. Also, he has a lot of bare skin on his face, more than what an India blue would have. I can't tell exactly what his wings look like, but it looks like the blue-black area on his wings might be larger than what it would be like on an India blue. Green peafowl have all bluish black wings so that also can indicate green blood. Oh oops and one more thing...The eye feather shown is slightly different looking than what the shape of an india blue peafowl would have. Green peafowl and India blue peafowl have similar looking train feathers, but some feathers you can more easily tell that they are more green-like. It is hard to explain exactly what I mean. This is just all stuff I have studdied and concluded. I do not own green peafowl but I do enjoy reading things about them, looking at photos of them, and talking to people who do own green peafowl.

It should be interesting using your peacock for the 4H. There are tons of chicken shows but you never hear of peafowl shows...

 

[1sttimepeamom]

Thank you for the welcome! He's not lonely. He lives with a D'Uccle rooster and when the warm weather comes back, there will be four hens in the coop next door.

 

[1sttimepeamom]

Thank you! I have read the same things but thought I would get a second opinion.
I understand he's a hybrid. We weren't worried about that.

Fortunately, we have a lot of bird shows around town and they have Ornamental classes where they judge them in the pen. My daughter doesn't actually do showmanship or anything like that with him, but he is gentle enough if he wasn't so big! We like exhibiting "exotic' animals at the county fair, just to give the public something a little more interesting to see outside of the normal chicken. So when my daughter suggested a peacock, we went for it! Last year, he was the only peafowl there among turkeys and a goose. A lot of the other kids became interested in doing something different, so it will be interesting to see what pops up this year.

Thank you again!

 

[TV]

Looks like an India Blue with some green. There is too much blue to be a spading. Somewhere along the way there was some green in one of it's parents. Definite boy with green.

He is a Spalding peacock. Any green blood at all makes it a Spalding no matter how little.