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The fact that it happens in nature all the time is the reason I stopped thinking it was a terrible thing and likely going to cause birth defects. I have a friend who has a flock of about 30 Peas they have had these birds on the family farm for like 25 years now, they do not control breeding at...

Why don't you post this as a separate thread or a poll. I was under the same impression, but over the years I have been told again and again by those with more experience than me that it is not a big deal and doing it once is not likely to cause any problems. If the original parents are not...

That is correct, your male is split Cameo and if he is bred back to the Cameo daughter you can get Cameo males. Cameo is sex linked which means only males can be split to it, hens are either IB or Cameo, they can't be split to a sex-linked color. So female siblings are not split to Cameo, but...

If I am not mistaken there are barred feathers between these BS looking ones and the flights that would be red, but are white on this guy. That would mean they are too high on the wing to be the regular black ones an IB gets, plus the IB never has that pattern of light and dark on his Black...

Zaz you win the prize! Don't know what prize, but you win! You have such keen eyesight and so often you see things in pics that others do not. I have long suspected one of my pied males is split to BS, but I never put him with a BS hen to find out. I have oodles of BS already and don't need...

Here's a better picture. I think it has something unusual going on, but maybe others have seen this before. I just know I have never seen it before.

If it were me I would go with a Cameo or Cameo BS male. You get that possibility of Peach, the male will throw Cameo daughters and (I assume) sons that are IB split to either Cameo or Purple and split to BS, if SweePea is split to BS you will get an even bigger variety. Here is a pic of...

In Post # 3 you said " Some say there is a barring, but I haven't seen it on mine yet". In the pictures above I can see the barring on the wings of your Cameo cock and I can see how much more well defined the scalloping is on the Cameo hen's chest. Can you see these differences? Is so, you are...

What I meant ( Smarty Pants) was in a couple of years you will be able to look at a bunch of 10 week old chicks and know which are boys and which are girls...... 98% of the time anyway, cause we all get fooled now and then.

We've talked about those breast feathers before and it is very hard to put into words. Males can appear somewhat scalloped as well, but the lighter edge on the feathers will not be as wide and uniform looking. After a couple years of raising them you will learn all those subtle little variations.

It's a hen, look at the scallop shaped feathers with the wide light edges on it's chest/breast area. Plus genetics would tell you it could only be a hen. Have to have a Cameo hen to get a Cameo male.

Hi there! Congrats to you and Mama hen. That little blonde looks like a Cameo hen, That means the male is split to Cameo. He carries a Cameo gene but it is recessive to the India Blue gene. Cameo is a Sex-Linked color which means you can get Cameos with only 1 parent carrying the gene. A male...