Can anyone advise the color/variety and gender of this yearling (with the green neck)?
It hatched with a group of eggs last year labeled Rosewood from a friend who has a confirmed Rosewood pair. Three chicks hatched and two of them - a hen and a cock - definitely appear that they will indeed...
Thank you very much.
The breeding pen included peach hens, a peach male and a split peach male - can these hens be split to peach from this stock? Or would just be straight cameo?
I’m still a little fuzzy on color genetics.
I’ve got a pair of yearling peahens that I hatched from shipped eggs last year. The chicks got mixed up at hatching, and could have been either peach, cameo or Montana. This was the first time I had hatched eggs from either of those colors before.
The hens are identical - can anyone confirm if...
Apologies, this is a really long post as I’m hoping to provide as much info as I can for those who might be able to help:
I have a group flight pen that houses about 8 young adult (1.5-2.5 year old) peafowl. All have been healthy until a couple months ago. One of my 1.5 yr old males seemed...
Sorry, one more question! The sex-link colors still get me a bit...
So the yearling offspring that I purchased that came from (supposedly) this hen in the picture and an IB pied cock include:
The IB silver pied male and female, and the IB white eye male and female. My understanding is that the...
Also this is supposed to be the mother from the birds that I noted as possibly split to black shoulder. The father was IB pied. Am I correct that this is an IBBS? It is the only pic I have and the owner has since sold her.
Good morning! I am newish to peafowl and last year began acquiring a group of chicks to begin a mixed flock, which I would like to split into mating pens next year. I am now at the stage where I pretty much know who is going to be what as far as color/sex. I have some thoughts on who to match...