Blue peeps10/7/2023 The breast and neck feather borders will be more copper buff colored. These will show slightly darker and duller color. Pavo muticus-imperator, from Indo- China: The female is slightly smaller and slightly less colorful. The overall look of the muticus-muticus is the bright olive metallic green. They may all be pure blood, but reflect the breeder’s preference of selection. Some lines have heavier lacing or barring while others carry the blue shoulder color more dominantly. Different breeders have emphasized one feature or the other through many generations of breeding. Descriptions of the back and wing colors have varied over the years. This continues into the breast and to the saddle feathers. The heavy edge lacing gives the appearance of scales. Neck feathers are dark blue-green with edges of light, metallic, green-gold. Light blue facial skin around the eye with yellow under. Head has blue green feathers on the crown. The three sub-species of the green peafowl currently available to breeders in the United States are: Pavo muticus-muticus, from Java:Ĭrest is light metallic green. The peachicks will be larger and longer legged than the cristatus and a dark, charcoal brown color. I highly suggest laboratory testing to be sure of the sex if buying or selling green peachicks, unless you are a gambler. They are more of the baritone, rather than the tenor of the cristatus. They have a tall, tight crest instead of fan-shaped. Green peafowl are longer legged and have a more streamlined body than Pavo cristatus. I will make the disclaimer that all people see colors differently, computer monitors have different tones, lighting causes variation, and almost all photos flatten the iridescence and glow of the feathers. Knowing all the actual genes - genotype - depends upon good record keeping and honesty on the part of the owner. This article deals only in phenotype - what the bird looks like. You could come up with a peafowl as Spalding (hybrid), peach (color), black shoulder (pattern), pied white-eye (pattern). Most of the color mutations can be found in both wild and black shoulder patterns.Īll of the known color and pattern mutations have been from Pavo cristatus. The chicks and hens also differ, as explained later. The India blue (wild) pattern males have barred wings and the black shoulder pattern doesn’t. The India blue birds are called the wild pattern. It is now recognized as a pattern mutation of the India blue color. Older data shows that for years this was thought to be a color mutation. The black shouldered (called black-winged in Europe) was the first mutation to appear. Things have gotten more complicated when explaining peafowl varieties. But since the early 1800s, color and pattern mutations and hybrids have occurred. It would have been easier when only green, Pavo muticus, and India blues, Pavo cristatus, existed. This is an effort to explain some of the differences in peafowl variety and aid in identification. By George and Sonja Conner, United Peafowl Association Many of us have had times when we were not sure of what variety a peafowl was.
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