White Peafowl Matings

horey_8 · **Joined:** Sun Aug 07, 2005 8:13 am **Posts:** 11

Hi All
another question from me, in a long line of postings. I do hope that you do not mind me posting the questions under differnt topic treads. If there is a problem with this please let me know.

What I am wondering regarding white breeding, is wther it is best to breed white to white, or to breed a white to a split/pied bird.
I was told that although teh ratio of white offspring is reduced by using the later option, the hatch rate is increased as is the vigour of the offspring produced.

I am only young (22) but have been involved with birds for a number of years (chooks from about 4ish peafowl from 10ish) and have been trying to find out as much information about the birds i am breeding as possible.
(as you can proberly see form the large amount of questions I have posted)

This previous season I had by white hen lay eggs for the first time, she is three years, my mature male is the father, the is blue with white some white primaries and a small patch of white on his throat. 7 eggs were produced, 5 whites (lost two in shell though) and two norms with white primaries (one was lost in shell).

I have noticed that these offspring are a lot stronger and more vigorous than any of the other chicks produced. They have grown faster, and just seem generally healthier.

Any ideas on this from anyone with more experience in breeding white than what I have

Cheers

Ken Horley
khorley@une.edu.au

snowbald · **Posted:** Sun Mar 19, 2006 8:03 pm

Hi Ken,
I tend to breed split whites to whites (a) to maintain size, as I find breeding white to white you generally loose size after a while,so bringing the normal split white in maintains the size, and (b) maintains vigor --- I find the young from a split white x white are a more vigorous bird, however as you know you will not get 100% whites. So if you need to increase your white numbers dramatically breed white to white and at a later time bring in the split white to maintain size and vigor.

This is only my opinion and I hope it helps, good luck with your future breeding programe,best regards,
Snowball :-D

horey_8 · **Joined:** Sun Aug 07, 2005 8:13 am **Posts:** 11

Hi Snowball
thanks for your reply.
I had an idea that vigour was something that could have been affected but didnt know about the size factor.

I would never breed birds to produce large numbers of offspring which are of inferior quality. It is simply a waste of time and effort.
I belong to the school of thought that if something is worth doing it is worth doing right or not at all.

Although the idea of some minature peacocks does sound a little alluring. :twisted:

Cheers

Ken Horley
khorley@une.edu.au

Janb · **Posted:** Sun May 21, 2006 5:16 pm

Can anyone advise me on the likely result of a white male mating with an indian blue female producing white in the hatchings.

Peacocks Australia · **Joined:** Wed Jan 02, 2002 9:14 am **Posts:** 310755

Hi Janb, if you go to our Web Site, click Articles then select "Peafowl" we have an Article on Basic Genetics.

Let us know if you need more info?

Thanks
Peacocks Australia :lol:

Janb · **Posted:** Wed Jul 05, 2006 5:28 pm

Thank you Peacocks Australia. I have now printed off the genetics page for future information. Looks like I need to have either a pied, split or white to get white chicks though.
Janb

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