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Peachick Gallery
These photos show a variety of peachick colors in their early days.
Opal spalding chicks
A pied spalding
A purple silver pied spalding. This chick eventually developed much more color as it matured.
A chick from the bronze spalding pen.
I use color coded wing bands to make it easier to tell which chick came from which pen when they are young. Later I add color coded leg bands so I can  identify specific bloodlines in a mixed group.
Another silver pied chick.
A mixed group including opals, pieds and cameos.
Some four month old spaldings.
Note the variation in crests between the black shoulder and the green birds. The dark birds have a higher percentage of green blood in them. They are also showing barring on their backs which is not as reliable a marker of gender as it is in India blue peafowl.


It has been my experience that young spaldings do not begin to show any "bloom" or yellow in their faces until well into the winter of their first year. In my experience, pure muticus spicifers begin to show the slightest trace of yellow at about five months of age. I have also noticed that quality of diet and actual exposure to sunlight also affect the color in the faces and the plummage of both spaldings and pure muticus spicifers.