In one of our breeding pens we have:
India Blue Pied White-eyed split purple peacock
India Blue Peahen
India Blue Pied Peahen
Purple Peahen
I woke up in the wee hours of the morning and had been dreaming about genetics...obviously I've been thinking about it way too much! Out of this pen...
I'm thinking this is a purple male, but am not sure. This chick is just short of 9 weeks old. Quick background on the pen it came from....India Blue White Eyed Pied split Purple peacock with a Purple hen, India Blue Hen and India Blue Pied Hen. Any thoughts?
These guys hatched on Sunday. They are all from the pen that has the India Blue Pied White Eyed split Purple Male with a Purple, an India Blue and an India Blue Pied White Eyed hen. This white one is our first white from our pieds. So far, we've hatched 43 and lost 2 this season. The 3 boys...
We do have an adult Purple hen. We originally had her in with our pair of cameos. After getting no fertile eggs from that pen after several weeks, we moved her in with the India Blue Pied Split Purple male. We have some of her eggs in the incubators now. If I'm processing all this...
Wow! It hadn't even crossed my mind that Michaelangelo could be split purple...how exciting! Is there a possibility that he is Purple Pied instead of Blue like we were told by the seller? If so, how would we know for sure? After looking at him a little closer this morning, his neck and tail...
These are two of the first peachicks that we hatched this year. The first is 7 1/2 weeks old and the second is 6 weeks old. They both came from the pen that has a India Blue White Eyed Pied Peacock, an India Blue White Eyed Pied Peahen and an India Blue Peahen. Out of the 29 we have hatched...
We hatched this chick from a India Blue White Eyed Pied Peacock and a Purple Peahen. We do not know the background of either of the parent birds. If I understand things correctly, if it is a female, it would be India blue pied and if it is a male it would be India Blue Pied split purple...