First Egg Of The Season - - Anyone Else Get One?

[pedda munnangi]

My Taupe male is w/e,,,,so chicks coming from my bssp hens will have 2 copies of white and can have pied. Yoda, yes I got a 3 year old Taupe hen and a 2 year old Taupe w/e male

If the taupe male got 2 copies of w/e gene, when crossed with BS silver pied hen, all the chicks will have two copies of w/e gene. If the male got only one copy of w/e gene, 50 % of the chicks will have two copies and the other 50% will have only one copy of w/e gene. Also, 50% of the chicks split to white and 50 % will be split to pied. No pied birds. and all look India blue. The second generation breeding with these chicks will produce very exciting combinations of Taupe birds. Novel programe.

 

[Yoda]

They are still going to be beautiful regardless! Could you quickly rate the following colors from your favorite to least favorite: Bronze, Cameo, Peach, Charcoal, and Midnight BS?

Peach, Charcoal, Bronze, Cameo and midnight is mine LOL

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Thanks Yoda! I have those options of hatching eggs to get next weekend so I was just wondering. I totally love bronze, but I would like to see more pictures of peach and charcoal.

 

[Yoda]

I have both and they look similar but charcoal doesn't have the shine on the feathers like all the other peas do.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

So that is true... I was reading about Charcoal and remember something about them not having the shine. Could you please post pictures of you Charcoal in a new thread?

Sorry for steering this thread off topic. Back on topic: I have 11 peafowl eggs under a turkey broody. I collected seven more eggs over the past few days and my Blackshoulder Spalding peahen is finally laying. One IB hen did not lay today and I think she is broody. If so I will move here and let her hatch out some peachicks and let her raise them. I think that would be cool.

 

[Yoda]

Here is a link to my birds. The charcoal and bronze next to each other. I guess I could start another thread LOL

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/774594/meet-the-greek-peacock-gods-of-peapen

 

[mustangkid]

They are still going to be beautiful regardless! Could you quickly rate the following colors from your favorite to least favorite: Bronze, Cameo, Peach, Charcoal, and Midnight BS?

Here is my rating - Midnight BS, Bronze, Peach, Charcoal, Cameo. I have or have seen all except the Charcoal in person. Having hens that don't lay and the short life span puts me off the Charcoal.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Blue Creek,I can get pics of my Bronze male named UPS,he is FANTASTIC eye candy and has a great demeanor when it comes to me being close to him inside the pen at feeding and watering time. i too have a Charcoal dark pied w/e male that is 3 years old this spring. His father was on the UPA magazine last month who has since passed away. I can try and get some pics of him too since you like charcoal. He is in with 3 IB/BS hens split to Charcoal and a IB pied hen split to Charcoal. My Bronze pen has 2 100% Bronze hens and 1 IB split to Bronze hen together.I now have Peach but the male and hens are just 1 year old so not photo worthy.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

I would love to see pictures of them!

 

[casportpony]

I would love to see pictures of them!

Pictures are always good!