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Well not having a train may make life easier for him to get around, given the lack of eyesight. Look at these sweet videos/articles about disabled animals that got matched up with kids with disabilities (warning, need large box of tissues handy)...

If the farm for folks with developmental disabilities wants the bird, the bird's disability may make the bird a therapeutic asset.

BTW, I have been wracking my nearly-senile brain, because I couldn't remember, but I think this is what was once referred to as the "cameo death gene" -- I couldn't remember if the birds actually had increased mortality from the gene itself, or simply as a consequence of the blindness. I'm am...

Ya know, I sure wish someone would start a collection of DNA from these blind birds so peach/cameo breeders could screen for it and we could get it out of the breeding stock. Imagine if you had been breeding that bird for 5 or 6 years when it turned up. (You probably beat me to that by a full 24...

Kudos for noticing & figuring it out. Did the vet have any opinion as to why? Are there any obvious possibilities other than the genetic one? I'm so sorry.

Okay, I found one of the old threads and bumped it. I am so sorry. Read this one: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/559096/is-he-a-cameo-or-peach-he-has-gone-blind-already

Crud, isn't there a blindness issue in peach? I gotta go search old threads... I had forgotten about it. Might be over on UPA & my membership has lapsed.