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] Date Posted:14:53:51 03/06/08 Thu In reply to:
D C T --friendly poultry orthopedist
's message, "THE DEATH OF PEAHEN IN MALE PLUMAGE" on 05:14:38 03/06/08 Thu
>Peahen Number 13 hatched in the summer of 1990 and
>grew up
>to be an ordinary India blue peahen who laid good
>hatchable eggs. About three years ago she began to
>change
>colors with each molt and started to look like a
>juvenile
>male. Finally she had the plumage colors of an adult
>male
>and train three and a half feet long with eyespots as
>well
>formed as any male. I was fairly certain that she was
>not
>laying any eggs by that time but since there was
>another
>peahen in that pen could not prove it--that is until I
>did
>the post mortem on the unfortunate peahen.
>I found her body on the floor in front of the perch
>where
>she always slept beside Rainbow/Rambo.
>Her oviduct was blocked like it had grown shut and was
>full
>of yellow brown paste. There was a bit of eggwhite
>albumen
>at the rear of the abdomen and some up front in
>thoracic
>region. There was the very small remains of an egg in
>the
>process of being absorbed.
>As I carried the body away from the pen I could hear
>Rainbow/Rambo calling. I know that he has only a bird's
>brain but even that can remember a companion and miss
>her.
[> [> Subject: Re: THE DEATH OF PEAHEN IN MALE PLUMAGE
Author:
D C T --friendly poultry orthopedist
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Date Posted:18:06:45 03/09/08 Sun
>
>How do you interpret your findings? This sounds like
>a hormonal change to me. ? JanL
-----
I read somewhere that male peafowl color is caused by
female hormone being absent. Perhaps the blockage of
oviduct did something to hormone production. But I am NOT
expert about this.
I have several other peahens that do not lay eggs. Only one
of these is showing odd color but so far just not like the
late Peahen Number 13.
Re: THE DEATH OF PEAHEN IN MALE PLUMAGE