Green Peafowl Research Paper

Peafowl are exotic, beautiful birds. Most people are not educated about peafowl; most people don’t even know what the word peafowl means. Peafowl is the general term when talking about the peacock, peahen, or peachick. The peacock is the male, the peahen is the female, and peachick is the baby. People that do not raise peafowl nor educated in peafowl know what it takes to produce high quality feathers or chicks, that there is more than one variety of peafowl, nor do they know peacocks molt.

Peafowl have specific needs, if you wish to produce the highest quality feathers or chicks it is important to know what they need. Both the peacock and peahen need protein and calcium in their diet. The peacock needs the high protein for two reasons. He uses the protein as an energy source to grow in his feathers. It takes energy to grow feathers in. He needs protein as an energy source when courting …show more content…
The most common variety of peafowl is the Indian Blue. There are 225 different varieties of peafowl including the Indian Blue. Three of the varieties are Green peafowl. Green peafowl are a separate species of peafowl. There are three subspecies to Green peafowl. The Java (Pavo muticus muticus), the Burmese (Pavo muticus spicifer), and the Indo Chinese (Pavo muticus imperator). Indian Blue is the original variety of the Indian species (Pavo cristatus). The other varieties are different mutations of the Indian Blue. There are two types of mutations, color and pattern. Colors of peafowl include: Blue, Midnight, Cameo, Peach, Bronze, Charcoal, Opal, Purple, Taupe, and Violeta. Patterns include: Wild pattern (Barred shoulder), Black Shoulder, White, White Eyed, Pied, and Silver Pied. There can be 1-3 different patterns per color. The other 111 varieties of peafowl are hybrids. They are the varieties of Indian species breed to the Green species. These hybrids are known as Spaldings. Spalding peafowl are few hybrid animals that are