Do I have an Opal Silver Pied?? (Pics)

[Yoda]

Okay,,It's been a long day and the hang thread has me in stitches here,,Post#14,,Mmmaddie,,no the two pieds I have in with my Charcoal male from this year are not IB Silver pieds,,one is a dark pied,the other a silver pied.I misread your post,or misinterpreted it that you thought you had a a two colored bird,,wasn't associating the "Pied" factor,,just the Opal Silver stood out,,forgive me.

Frenchy, The 2 hens are they split to charcoal?

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Yoda,,sadly no,,hatched both the dark and silver pied hens from eggs bought off e-bay from a seller in ky 2 years ago,wish they were tho and was hoping to get a few eggs to hatch from them.The one charcoal chick I helped almost fall out of the egg that died was a charcoal pied tho when I lifted it's lifelessness out of the shell,made me slightly peeved! I hatched 1 peachick from my Charcoal pen all summer and it looks 100% IB so far so that chick had to come from one of the B/S Split to Charcoal hens I bought from Legg this spring.Had maybe 5 others that developed and quit so my male is fertile.I think he was only breeding 1 hen out of all of them.Oh well,next year has to be better.I've already formulated a new feed ration for that pen in 2013 from some insight on bloodwork done on a Charcoal male that showed this color has shortcomings in some key areas We also think because of this alone is why Charcoal males don't live as long as other colors.Micronutrients added to their feed with extra specific minerals added with drinking water I hope will stop the quiters and aid in my male living longer than most.I cannot wait ot see what his train looks like next year.And hopefully get more than 1 live chick out of him.