What to breed with my Cameo?

[WestKnollAmy]

As I am setting up breeding pens for spring 2017, I realize my Cameo once again only has his Peach hen. I really do not want to hatch from her again since all 6 chickens that hatched last year died within days to a week after hatch. She has a scissor bill and I figure might well carry the death gene. She has lived with the Cameo peacock all her life since hatched and though I may not want to hatch from her, I wonder what other hen I could put in their pen to hatch from that would give me a project to work on.





I do not own any Cameo hens but I do have IBBS, IB, IB pied, IB SP, Bronze and Bronze WE, Opal WE and Purple.

I do not have to hatch from him but I also do not want to waste a chance at working on something beautiful, either. I have many other peacocks that I have paired up with some lucky ladies. I have 9 peacocks and 15 breeding hens.

What would you work on with this Cameo peacock? Should I go for Cameo pied?

 

[KsKingBee]

Genetics are a main contributor but feeding a good nutritional diet is the key to both feather structure, good health, and healthy offspring. Did you know that the next generation of eggs for the coming season are being generated during the molt that begins at the end of the previous season?

 

[AugeredIn]

I am going to disagree with Bill. I would put a bronze hen in with him. Putting the purple hen in there will give nothing but but double split males that would need crossover to create peach. You might never get anything. If you put the cameo male with a bronze hen you will get all cameo hens split to bronze and IB cocks split to both cameo and bronze. You can then breed the siblings to each other and find out what the combination of bronze and cameo looks like. There are sixteen possible outcomes from the breeding. One of the 16 is a cameo bronze cock and one of the 16 is a cameo bronze hen. To the best of my knowledge, no one has made this combination yet.

 

[KsKingBee]

I would put the Purple hen in with him.

 

[KsKingBee]

That could give me Peach, right? But also IBs?

Well, not eggzactly. If you breed a Purple cock and Cameo hen to get an IB cock split to both Purple and Cameo, then breed him back to the Cameo hen mother you could eventually get Peach. I did that and have the offspring IB split Purple and Cameo cock that is coming two but now I have lost interest in the project since I have bought the Peach I wanted.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Yes! Definitely good nutrition is a must on our farm.
In my previous life I was an animal nutritionist. I worked almost 20 years for an avian vet as head tech and office manager. Nutrition has always been the key factor in all my breeding of animals. I always felt that is why we won horse shows, dogs shows, cavy shows and poultry shows.
In knowing nutrition and how the body works, I know that one diet doesn't fit all so I need to find his nutritional needs for best plumage. Peafowl are new to me so I have been working with each birds' conditioning and best diet. I hope I have it almost correct after 4 years.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

That could give me Peach, right? But also IBs?

 

[KsKingBee]

That could give me Peach, right? But also IBs?

Well, not eggzactly. If you breed a Purple cock and Cameo hen to get an IB cock split to both Purple and Cameo, then breed him back to the Cameo hen mother you could eventually get Peach. I did that and have the offspring IB split Purple and Cameo cock that is coming two but now I have lost interest in the project since I have bought the Peach I wanted.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Oh well, good. I have no interest in Peach. I like darker or more brilliant colors that I can make a bit more striking by later adding pied.

 

[Dany12]

That could give me Peach, right? But also IBs?

I believe that the first peacock Peach (a female) was obtained by a cross over ... thing that happens rarely ... that we can not reproduce!
See the " history of peach peacock " Leggs peafowl ! http://www.leggspeafowl.com/history_of_peach_peafowl.htm ◄ don't work ... so much !