Cameo or Peach?

[BYC-user-174785]

Yes it is very sad to have blind peafowl, and even more so watching them progress from being to see to then being blind. I did find a local person to give mine to and they are apparently settling in well.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

It's a heartbreaking thing. I got mine from a friend along with her daughter which was mated to an India blue. I noticed the daughter now is losing vision at roughly a year and half of age. My friend didn't realize it was blind since it was sighted as a chick and grew up there. She just thought she was "awfully calm"!

She was getting out of peafowl and she gave them to me for free not realizing. I didn't know til she was blind til she kept running into things.

Yours is a beautiful bird, it could also be something else causing it too as yours does NOT look like the typical hen to lose sight.



These are the typical cameos with the blind gene, they go to white older they get. Pardon my very dirty coop, was back before spring cleaning. But this is my sweet gal, she eats by listening to the chickens, would be perfect she says if I got rid of those darned mean guineas!

Thank you, what you mean by something else? You mean she could problem in her eyes but not necessarily the blind gene? I have her since a year now, she didn't get any worse, and i have seen her parents, they looked normal, i don't think they have the same problem.

 

[thndrdancr]

Yes, if neith of her parents are blind then it could have very well caused by something else, injury, eye worm, ivermecten, or any number of things.

I think I would go ahead and hatch her eggs if you know the parents are ok, could just be an individual problem she had too. She certainly does not fit the "blind gene" profile, you saw how white my hen is? Those are normally the ones I have heard about with this problem. Hang onto her children maybe and you will know eventually, she is so pretty I can't imagine not breeding her but if you find out for sure she carries it then no more breeding, just her and progeny to keep for prettiness with no more breeding.

So maybe load off your mind?

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Yes, if neith of her parents are blind then it could have very well caused by something else, injury, eye worm, ivermecten, or any number of things.

I think I would go ahead and hatch her eggs if you know the parents are ok, could just be an individual problem she had too. She certainly does not fit the "blind gene" profile, you saw how white my hen is? Those are normally the ones I have heard about with this problem. Hang onto her children maybe and you will know eventually, she is so pretty I can't imagine not breeding her but if you find out for sure she carries it then no more breeding, just her and progeny to keep for prettiness with no more breeding.

So maybe load off your mind?

Yep, no more breeding of course if her chicks will get the problem, so your white hen was a cameo

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I just caught her and saw some missing feathers just up her left eye, i can see her skin in this spot, and i'm not sure but i was testing her eyes, and she seems to see a little better with her right eye, she will move her head faster when i get my hand close to her right eye, But maybe i'm just imagining

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

I lost the faith in the first two peahens in this thread, they laid around 15 eggs so far, none developed, but when i crack them i can clearly see they are fertile! The egg shell doesn't look normal by the way. Last their eggs didn't hatch, but there were at least 4 eggs developed until day 23 or 24.

 

[DylansMom]

I lost the faith in the first two peahens in this thread, they laid around 15 eggs so far, none developed, but when i crack them i can clearly see they are fertile! The egg shell doesn't look normal by the way. Last their eggs didn't hatch, but there were at least 4 eggs developed until day 23 or 24.

So it is the 2 "mystery" colored hens that you are referencing? What do the egg shells look like? I just posted a picture of a very odd one I got, never saw one like it before and it feels like sandpaper. If it is the 2 mystery colored girls, I would keep trying, I still think they could be something new, and if you got some to day 24 last year, then it is possible. JMO

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

So it is the 2 "mystery" colored hens that you are referencing? What do the egg shells look like? I just posted a picture of a very odd one I got, never saw one like it before and it feels like sandpaper. If it is the 2 mystery colored girls, I would keep trying, I still think they could be something new, and if you got some to day 24 last year, then it is possible. JMO

Yes, its the mystery hens, i just saw your egg, mine doesn't feel like sandpaper exactly, but yeah kind of, its not soft like normal eggs, and when i candle it, it looks empty inside. Cracked three eggs from their pen so far and two were fertile. I will give them 2 more weeks, if they didn't develop i will move them with their male to the chicks pen for this summer, i can't keep them in their current pen for the summer it will be so hot for them. They will be another 2 years old silver pied males with them and maybe a 2 years old opal pair.