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ChicksnMore said:
Thats too bad about the white spot...I'd love it if those stayed. I might see if I can learn any more about the older hens background.

With horses, you can mail off a sample and a lab will analyze it and send you a genetic breakdown of the horses color/pattern genes. I'm curious if any place runs a similar service for birds. Anyone ever hear of such a thing?
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Those White spots may stay as they mature...

I have hatched several Peachicks out of a Dark Pied, single factor W/E X Split to Pied pairing that have kept their White spots... but I can't definitively say if it's because of the Pied gene or the W/E gene
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Not the best pic, but here's a pair of them as yearlings:


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Dunno if these are pics of the same Peachicks as the 2 yearlings pictured above, but this is how most of the Peachicks that hatched with White spots on their heads/necks looked as babies... very obvious White spots (the Peachick in the food dish in the 1st pic, and the 2 Peachicks in the right corner of the 2nd pic)...



 
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q8peafowl said:
I think the white spot will disappear when they grow up, i found this thread https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/670417/india-blue-cock-bred-to-silver-pied-hen it has some good informations, if both of your chicks are split to pied it seems you will need a white hen to get some pied chicks, but if your older hen is split to white then you will get some pied chicks.
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I you're referring to the white spot on the hen named Faux pictured in post number 8, I don't think it will disappear, it stayed on five of my 2012 peas.

-Kathy
 
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casportpony said:
I you're referring to the white spot on the hen named Faux pictured in post number 8, I don't think it will disappear, it stayed on five of my 2012 peas.

-Kathy
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No i was referring to the white spot on the chicks heads, like this one


I'm not sure if it will disappear in all chicks, but all mine from last year lost it.
 
ChicksnMore said:
Thats too bad about the white spot...I'd love it if those stayed. I might see if I can learn any more about the older hens background.

With horses, you can mail off a sample and a lab will analyze it and send you a genetic breakdown of the horses color/pattern genes. I'm curious if any place runs a similar service for birds. Anyone ever hear of such a thing?
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As i know there is no such a way, thats why many people don't know what is the hidden genetics in their peafowls until they start breeding.
 
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q8peafowl said:
As i know there is no such a way, thats why many people don't know what is the hidden genetics in their peafowls until they start breeding.
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Ah well...its more fun to just wait and see and I suppose theres not a huge problem with too many peacocks.
 

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