2014 breeding season begins, post your results

[PeepsCA]

Peeps, I have a 100% looking barred winged IB,,his mother was an IB Black Shoulder split to Charcoal,,and his father was a Charcoal pied ,,2 copies of w/e,,he does not show a throat patch,or any white feathers on him,just looks 100% barred wing ib,,,good thing for wingbanding and accurate records,or he would have went bye-bye yesterday

Hidden genes frustrate me, especially those Pied, W/E and White genes, lol. Glad to know I'm not the only person they are hiding from

And glad to read you were able to check your records and save your boy from going bye-bye.

I agree, wingbanding and accurate records are a must, especially if you are breeding for certain colors and patterns... but unfortunately for me I'm starting with 4 birds that have unknown/uncertain backgrounds and are not banded in any way. Makes me wonder what else they are hiding from me, lol. After talking to the breeder of my Peacock (his breeding records were lost in a PC crash) we're pretty sure he's donating the copy of W/E, as well as a Pied gene... but as for which of my 3 Hens is donating the other Pied gene to the mix (which resulted in producing the Dark Pied chicks) is a complete unknown

I do wingband my chicks, but my Hens all share the same nesting barrel, so I never know who has laid which eggs unless I am right there when they actually lay. And of course, every time so far that I have marked the eggs and hatched a chick from them I ended up with normal looking IB chicks, lol. With only a certain % of the eggs laid by the Hen (or Hens) carrying the other copy of Pied factored in, that is definitely not helping me narrow anything down either

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I was thinking about trying the food coloring drops in the vent trick that many use on Chicken Hens, but I haven't bothered trying that yet. I would most likely end up leaving the coop wearing rainbow colors all over me after attempting it, lol. I remember reading several of Deerman's posts where he talked about crating up certain Hens every evening so he knew which egg came from which Hen... so I may go that route and see if it will help me get a little further with this hidden gene mystery. Otherwise, I'll have to start looking for a couple of Whites, and build more pens and go the test breeding route... ugh

 

[PeepsCA]

Quote: OK, just checkin'... thought maybe you were using Kathy's stirring stick

I was only referring to the female Peachicks that I personally have hatched being darker. Maybe it's not the norm in general for IBs, but in the case of the 28 Peachicks I hatched last season that is how it turned out with the chicks produced by this particular breeding quad. I'll just have to band wings, take notes and then wait and see if it happens again this season

 

[casportpony]

Where is birdbrain? I do feel the urge to stir up some laughs!

-Kathy

 

[margaret8]

Ok, here we go again my post disappeared! I'm going to show my stupidity. Remember I've only been raising the colored peafowl for less than a year! What is w/e? And, while we are on the subject how come I can have a BS blur male and 2 BS white hens? Is BS a marking or a breed? Here are some pix of what I'm talking about.
I can't download my pix I'll send them on the next msg.

 

[margaret8]

Peacock

Peahens

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Margaret8 w/e = white eye.There is no such thing as B/S white hens. Your white hens with the black flecking across their backs are black shoulder hens, probably india blues. BS is a pattern. It is close to a "marking",it's just a diffrent pattern instead of barred wing or pied

 

[zazouse]

Hidden genes frustrate me, especially those Pied, W/E and White genes, lol. Glad to know I'm not the only person they are hiding from

And glad to read you were able to check your records and save your boy from going bye-bye.

I agree, wingbanding and accurate records are a must, especially if you are breeding for certain colors and patterns... but unfortunately for me I'm starting with 4 birds that have unknown/uncertain backgrounds and are not banded in any way. Makes me wonder what else they are hiding from me, lol. After talking to the breeder of my Peacock (his breeding records were lost in a PC crash) we're pretty sure he's donating the copy of W/E, as well as a Pied gene... but as for which of my 3 Hens is donating the other Pied gene to the mix (which resulted in producing the Dark Pied chicks) is a complete unknown

I do wingband my chicks, but my Hens all share the same nesting barrel, so I never know who has laid which eggs unless I am right there when they actually lay. And of course, every time so far that I have marked the eggs and hatched a chick from them I ended up with normal looking IB chicks, lol. With only a certain % of the eggs laid by the Hen (or Hens) carrying the other copy of Pied factored in, that is definitely not helping me narrow anything down either

.

I was thinking about trying the food coloring drops in the vent trick that many use on Chicken Hens, but I haven't bothered trying that yet. I would most likely end up leaving the coop wearing rainbow colors all over me after attempting it, lol. I remember reading several of Deerman's posts where he talked about crating up certain Hens every evening so he knew which egg came from which Hen... so I may go that route and see if it will help me get a little further with this hidden gene mystery. Otherwise, I'll have to start looking for a couple of Whites, and build more pens and go the test breeding route... ugh

Do they all lay in different places?

 

[MinxFox]

Margaret8 w/e = white eye.There is no such thing as B/S white hens. Your white hens with the black flecking across their backs are black shoulder hens, probably india blues. BS is a pattern. It is close to a "marking",it's just a diffrent pattern instead of barred wing or pied

Just to add to the white eye part, white eye doesn't mean the birds eyes in their head are white, it means the eye feathers have white on them. Some have more white on the train feathers than others. I just wanted to say that because many people new to the term white eye do not realize it is referring to the feathers.
Here is my favorite photo of a white eye bird (off of the Texaspeafowl AKA Sid's website):

Not my bird.

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Oh I also wanted to say that tonight I got an email from someone wanting an adult peafowl pair. I told them I am sold out and am only selling eggs. They haven't replied back yet and they didn't say where they are located, but if they reply back does anyone have an adult pair for sale on here?

I got another egg today. It was one of those smaller, darker ones. I like seeing all the places that the peahens choose to lay an egg. The place the egg was that I found today was a great spot, but I already noticed a week ago the area was looking like someone was preparing it to be a nest.

 

[pedda munnangi]

Indiablue silverpied x Indiablue silverpied = 25 % of the chicks produced will be white eyed (two copies of white eye gene) and of course dark pied too.

 

[AugeredIn]

Indiablue silverpied x Indiablue silverpied = 25 % of the chicks produced will be white eyed (two copies of white eye gene) and of course dark pied too.

Maybe I had too much to drink at the ball game but silver pied by silver pied results in every chick being white eye. 25% will be white, 25% will be dark silver pied and 50% will be silver pied but every chick carries two WE genes.