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RunDanRun
Joined: 14 Dec 2009
Posts: 51
Location: Springfield/Willard, Missouri |
 Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:39 am |
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I noticed something this morning while feeding my peafowl...I want to see if this is just a coincidental observation OR if perhaps this COULD be a help in assisting people knowing the gene pool of their peafowl.
Okay, I feed in the early morning before work (around 5:45 a.m). It's dark. I recently purchased a headlamp so that I didn't have to carry a flashlight around while also trying to carry feed pails and a waste pail. Side note: LOVE the headlamp! : )
That's when I started noticing it. The eyes of some of my peafowl were reflecting a pink/red tint while others were not. This morning, I took more note of this. It so happened that my white, pied and bronze (which I thought had some white in its heritage) all had pink reflections from the light, while the blues did not.
COULD it be possible that a pink/red reflection indicates white in the gene pool of a peafowl?
I would be interested in your thoughts on this . . . and if others could check to see what they find in their peafowl (if this holds true for them).
OH, I guess I should mention, the light was an LED headlamp light...not sure if that makes a difference or not (as opposed to a flashlight light), but thought I would mention it in order to keep from having "variables."  |
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DMFarms
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Nov 2007
Posts: 148
Location: Winona Texas |
| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 8:05 pm |
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Dan I don't think it has anything to do with the color. We don't go in the pens or shine a light in the pens after dark. Most peafowl are flighty when a light is shine on them and they will fly staight up and could break there necks I would not recomend anyone to do this. |
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RunDanRun
Joined: 14 Dec 2009
Posts: 51
Location: Springfield/Willard, Missouri |
| Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 9:21 am |
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Oh, well, certainly I wouldn't want to place anyone's birds at risk...perhaps because I've always fed early mornings, my peafowl are used to me entering the pens with a flash light -- I haven't had any fly up like that.
I do, however, find it MUCH easier to pick up and medicate the peafowl in the early morning as opposed to daylight. They tend to let me get much closer in the dark with a flashlight than at anytime in the daylight (so grabbing them and sticking them under my arm to medicate them is much easier).
BUT, as my initial observation was apparently coincidental, I would STRONGLY recommend others take DMFarms' advice and not risk having a peafowl fly up and get injured or killed. |
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Kevin
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Joined: 01 Nov 2007
Posts: 194
Location: Riverside, CA |
| Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:19 pm |
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In different animals, some colors also have an effect on other organs, one example being albinos often having poor vision due to lack of pigment affecting their eyes. Some colors also reduce or affect the pigmentation on other organs, not just the skin/hair/feathers etc. The black skin of the Silkie chicken also affects the muscles, bones, various organs. If you have noticed pied dogs having different colored eyes, the blue eye is literally the eye not getting pigment just like the white parts of their skin/fur.
Would not be surprised if some mutations in peafowl also have some effect on their eye pigmentation. IF bronze eyes do 'reliably' show pink flash, would attribute it to being a side effect of bronze, not 'white ancestry'. |
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sctcat
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Joined: 11 Nov 2007
Posts: 88
Location: Maryville TN |
| Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 8:20 pm |
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Your curiosity about the red reflection grabbed my attention. I had to take care of peas EARLY one morning and wore my head lamp out to the pens. Yes, my white hen and my IB pied male had red eyes when I casually scanned the perched birds while I filled up food and water bowls. But none of the others I glanced at showed any red eye. I had noticed that my mostly white cat was also occasionally red-eyed when a head lamp beam caught his vision. I think I'll dig into this more.
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