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    1 week old peachicks w/photos

    Fourth Bird: White
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    1 week old peachicks w/photos

    Third Bird: Silver Pied
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    1 week old peachicks w/photos

    Second Bird: White
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    1 week old peachicks w/photos

    Only hatched out 4 this year…I need to build more pens 😉🤣…just wanted to share. Maybe if someone sees anything I don’t see. 😊 First Bird IB/white gene
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    Hatching Time Incubators? Opinions?

    I have a hatching time incubator/hatcher. I love it. Temps and humidity are always within .1 of the additional temp/humidity sensors I use. With chickens I have a 95% hatch rate. This year I only had 2 blood rings out of over 200 eggs I set. And that was most likely because the eggs had been...
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    5 week old pea chick… boy or girl?

    Oh, they weren’t my pics…I was just commenting on the thread. I had a peachick hatch this year from a pen with green. I was just curious how you knew so early. Thank you for your answer. 😊
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    5 week old pea chick… boy or girl?

    Can you tell me how you know that? Just trying to learn 😊
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    peafowl eggs hatching

    Have the others internally pipped? What does the air cell look like? I usually don’t “lock down” until I see a good portion of the chicks head moving around in the air cell. This year all my chicks hatched at day 26/27. Keep us posted 😊
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    Choc Orp X Choc Orp Produced this??

    Definitely in his/her ugly duckling stage.
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    Choc Orp X Choc Orp Produced this??

    Updated photo of the proposed khaki chick. Looking maybe more platinum? I also noticed that all the birds have dark shanks and whitish toenails. When I was a parrot breeder, this was indicative of a cinnamon gene. Does dun behave the same as cinnamon/isabel?
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    Please help - impacted crop suspected

    Ive learned with peacocks that it can be nutritional. Finding the right balance of vitamins and protein is hard since they don’t really make peafowl specific feed. What is the protein % of your feed?
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    New babies

    They do indeed grow very quick. This is my boy raja when he was 12 weeks old and 16 weeks old. He was like a puppy too. Would step up onto my arm when I said “step up”. Rode around on my shoulder. At 4 months I put him outside onto grass for the first time. I was a parrot breeder for 30 years...
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    Please help - impacted crop suspected

    Is it stretching its neck straight up or at an odd angle? Any mouth gaping? If so, it could be either a bacterial infection or a nutritional deficiency. Start with the simpler condition first. Do you have any nutra drench?
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    Choc Orp X Choc Orp Produced this??

    From how I understood it, platinum, khaki are phenotypes. The genotype is dun and the different names are how it is expressed. Here’s a long AI generated explanation. Not sure if it’s all correct. Maybe someone who is better at explaining it can chime in. Khaki = Dun Dun (Dun Splash): Two...
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    Choc Orp X Choc Orp Produced this??

    This is a really old thread, its the best explanation of dun that I could find. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/dun-genetics-help.510755/
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