Perhaps the chicks are in fact peach not cameo as they are only a few weeks old. This may go some way to proving that peach is cameo and purple. As if you are correct a peach father on to purple hen would produce peach hens and purple cocks. With the purple cocks phenotype been purple as they...
"Am I misunderstanding something? If both parents were split to cameo, the offspring may or may not be split to purple. If one of the parents is split to cameo and the other homozygous purple, then cameo would have to be dominant to purple to get a cameo chick."
Both parents are homozygous for...
"I agree with your second paragraph but you lost me a little bit on the third paragraph. A hen cannot be split to a sex linked color. She could theoretically be both cameo and purple. Maybe I am misunderstanding what you are saying. We do know that purple and cameo do some weird things when...
Does anyone know the order of preference of the various color mutations. I ask because I'm producing a few cameo chicks from a pair of purple's.
The chicks are likely hens as cameo and purple are sex-linked and would indicate my purple male is split cameo.
However the female chicks should...
Some people most be getting rid of surplus males through sites like this one, http://www.featheremporium.com/full-skins.html and http://www.ebay.com/bhp/fly-tying-skins, worth considering if you where going to eat them, as you can still eat the flesh, nothing is wasted. Otherwise you just have...
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Just want to clarify my understanding, cloacal drinking is NOT the act of a bird drinking via the beak from the cloca, which is how it first sounded to me. But I now understand it is rather the bird placing its vent on the ground and "drinking" other birds fecal matter through the...
They are displaying males of Western Tragopan (none in captivity outside Pakistan) - first picture and Blyth's tragopan (virtually gone in captivity) - second picture
Hi Kathy,
In my experience there are a few diseases that are no-brainers so to speak, once you have had cocci, you know the signs. However with lots of the others unless the bird dies you can't be sure what was wrong with it. I've lost birds that I was sure I knew what was up with them and...
Just thought I would share some paintings I purchased, hope you appreciate them as I do ..... only way I thought I would get all five Tragopans species.
Last hopefully helpful comment.....always remember KISS (keep it simple, stupid) . Unless you have a history of a specific disease, you should not expect that disease. Most new diseases come in with new stock and even then expect the common diseases first~~for example Colibacillosis is one of...