Cameo or Peach?

[Arbor]

I doubt they are charcoal cameo as well, was just bringing it up as my own visual comparison. (Unfortunately I haven't had any eggs from them yet, coming on 3 yrs old this year, so here's hoping I'll post a hen pic if I do get eggs).

His hens look opal to me too, until you have a known opal hen beside them, I guess we'd just be yelling out colours for a while. The neck and head are too dark for taupe anyways.

I am still working on some bronze combos, some charcoal combos and an opal cameo combo (this one has my best odds, with three hens for my 3 yr old male BS split both colours). Last years hatch was terrible, and even getting the young to make it to 2 months was tough. I'm changing things around a bit next year. Positioning the incubator and hatcher to my heated shop for warmer more stable climate. The feed ration I had them on only seemed to make things worse. I'm going to go back to commercial chicken pellet with my own additives.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

I doubt they are taupe, and legg's description of how "they came to be" is too vague, it was a deliberate breeding to get taupe. I have cameo charcoal hens, (two copies charcoal, one copy cameo, and those hens you have are closer to that than taupe. I will add more, but given your location, and the scarcity, I would guess opal based, but possibly out of cameo.

Do you have a picture for your charcoal cameo hens? i would like to see it, the seller of these hens had cameo ,charcoal and opal birds, but i don't think mine is opal at all, they really look different than my opals.

By the way, aren't charcoal hens don't lay eggs? These hens laid many eggs this year and some were fertile but they didn't hatch,

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

If it were me, I would breed the hens to an Opal cock and see what comes out the other end.

I can mate them with my opal bs sp male, but i'm almost sure they are not opal!

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

I doubt they are charcoal cameo as well, was just bringing it up as my own visual comparison. (Unfortunately I haven't had any eggs from them yet, coming on 3 yrs old this year, so here's hoping

I'll post a hen pic if I do get eggs).

His hens look opal to me too, until you have a known opal hen beside them, I guess we'd just be yelling out colours for a while. The neck and head are too dark for taupe anyways.

I am still working on some bronze combos, some charcoal combos and an opal cameo combo (this one has my best odds, with three hens for my 3 yr old male BS split both colours). Last years hatch was terrible, and even getting the young to make it to 2 months was tough. I'm changing things around a bit next year. Positioning the incubator and hatcher to my heated shop for warmer more stable climate. The feed ration I had them on only seemed to make things worse. I'm going to go back to commercial chicken pellet with my own additives.

I will try to get a picture for her next to an opal hen next week.

 

[AugeredIn]

I can mate them with my opal bs sp male, but i'm almost sure they are not opal!

I don't think they are Opal either. I think they are Taupe or Opal Cameo. If you breed them to an Opal male and get Opal Chicks you know that at least one of the background colors is Opal.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

I just found new images taken last week, i will post them all, some are blurry:




























I understand why Arbor thinks they could be opal from seeing them in pictures, but when seeing them in person you can see there is much difference between them and opals, i have seen many opal hens in person and i'm sure these aren't opal.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

I don't think they are Opal either. I think they are Taupe or Opal Cameo. If you breed them to an Opal male and get Opal Chicks you know that at least one of the background colors is Opal.

If it was opal cameo, and i paired her with opal male will all the offspring be opal or just half of them? Is there a difference if they are opal cameo or cameo opal?

 

[Arbor]

If they were opal cameo, an opal male with them would only produce opal hens, and opal males split to cameo Chances are, you're right about them not being opal and they are just cameos in poor lighting. When I look at them again, and again, I still doubt taupe due to the dark head. If you look at the photo below from texaspeafowl, the colour of the body is less grey than the hens you have. I know it's a male and not a hen, but the general body colouring is the same.

 

[AugeredIn]

All the offspring would be Opal and the males would be split Cameo. There is no difference between Opal Cameo and Cameo Opal.

 

[AugeredIn]

Send a pic to Brad and see what he thinks. They could be cameos in weird lighting but they are awfully silver looking. The back of the necks are pretty dark for taupe.