Day 26 pipping updated: new baby

[mg15]

Okay, thanks.

 

[AugeredIn]

FBC, at least one of those hens is split blackshoulder if they are throwing BS chicks.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

That may be the case,,but I ask you,,if barred winged birds was first,,,,where or how did B/S come about with quite possibly one bird having that gene and breeding to very possibly another bird that did not have b/s in their genetic toolbox?

 

[Yoda]

Yoda,I have 1 IB BS peacock in my big IB pen,and all 8 hens inside that pen are 100 phenotype IB,none shows B/S but several customers that I shipped eggs to hatched IB B/S chicks from the eggs.

Frenchy I just bought a 3 year old bronze hen who doesn't look like the bronze hen I got from Deerman. This one is lighter, a lot lighter. I asked the breeder what her back ground was and he said pure bronze not split to anything just bronze. Well I have to lift her up to the perch everynight, do not know why she doesn't fly up to it but she choses not to. I looked at the bird's wings cause I saw something white on them. Well she has 4 white feather on one wing and 2-3 on the other. Now they are not flight feathers but the smaller ones that lay at the top of the flights. I was told this means w/e am not sure if it is but makes sense as she is so much lighter then the last one. She has not laid any eggs yet and she might not even be breedable age but I will not know it cause I did not breed the bird. I can only go by what the breeder says. So basically if you did not breed and hatch those 8 hens then they can be split to something and most likely some are split to BS. The breeders don't tell you the history of the birds just what they look like

I know someone who has a peach hen she hatched from eggs she purchased from a breeder as IB eggs

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Yoda,,my older bronze hens do not look super dark brown either like my coming 1 year olds do.Actually they look more like purple b/s hens. I understand about breeders not always knowing,or saying what's in a birds genetics.If someone wanted an IB hen I may have for sale,and I know she's split to another color,I wouldn't even tell the buyer that part cause they would hold me to the hen having chicks out of the color they are split to.I've been told NOT to devuldge this info to buyers unless they are very knowledgable about using splits.I sold my IB split to Peach just because of the "maybe once in a blue moon" of actually hatching out a color that was the split. Now I have true Peach birds,no splits.

 

[zazouse]

Frenchy i thought sexlinked colors could not be split anything? so isn't peach a sexlinked color?

 

[pedda munnangi]

Yes peach is sex linked They say not a mutant gene by itself like purple or cameo.--only an expression of both.. Only a sex linked hen can not be split to another sex linked color, it is said.but it can be split to a non-sex linked color

 

[zazouse]

Thanks

 

[3BirdGirlz]

New pictures! And straight toes These two buddies are comical together. I'd say hatching on the same day so baby pea could have a buddy was devine intervention.

 

[zazouse]

Aww they are beautiful

thanks for sharing