Help! Before I buy this chick... NEW PICS...

The chicks are from two different pens the Blackshouldered pen the male is suppose to be split to Purple but he has a few white spots on his wing not white flight feathers, also the hens are Blackshouldered, Purple Blackshoulder, Purple and Blackshouldered hen split to something just not sure what second pen has white male in with white hen and 2 Pied hens that are suppose to be out of Silver Pieds I try and keep records of what eggs I buy to hatch and keep but I can only go by what breeder tells me about the eggs
 
Here are more pics of the dark chicks. He is keeping the older chick - it is supposed to be purple. The chick in the pics at the beginning of this post is the one with the white on its wings.
Are the 2 younger ones both IB?
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As for the purple blackshoulder or blue blackshoulder chicks:
As he posted above... it seems that the parents are blackshoulder & split to purple or purple blackshoulder. So I guess, theoretically, I could end up with purple blackshoulder chicks if I'm lucky. Will I be able to tell a difference when they are 3 weeks? Will they have the darker flecks coming in on their backs yet?
Thanks again for all your help with this!
 
pic of Peach Blackshoulder chick, purple bs and cameo bs would look much like this also.

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Here are the peachicks again. I'll be getting 2 peachicks on Monday. There are other blackshouldered chicks available, but they are younger. I thought I'd post this pic to see if you could tell me if any of these might be purple blackshouldered chicks.
I'll probably just go down there and pick 2 random chicks, but I really would like a purple blackshouldered chick.
Either way, you'll get to see plenty of pics of the "winners" I choose. I'll be probably be posting pics of the chicks as soon as I walk in the door!
Thanks for all your help!

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Here's anothre chick... this one's only a week & a half old. It looks like the pick you posted (post #14) Deerman. Do you think it might be purple blackshoulder?

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Could be on that last one.

the older chicks the back two, hard to tell. what to look for on the older BS look for ones with brown speck, blue BS will be getting black speck in the feathers.

Most of the purple will be female from what he said the parents were. Some males will be purple.

Best odds getting a pr. get one blue and one purple, both can be BS.
 
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Thanks for the help.
I'll try to get one of each. I'll post pics again when I get them & you can tell me what you think.
 
f the india blue has white on its wings it is a india blue white eyed then.
 
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I thought that the white on its wings meant IB dark pied?
I actually was considering getting a dark pied & a white at first... that way I'd get pied chicks in a couple years. I just couldn't bring myself to get a white chick, though. White peafowl are NOT my favorite.
I decided on the blackshoulders. The surprise of whether I'll get blue or purple is actually kinda fun.
I also have 7 IB eggs in the incubator. I'm hoping at least one will hatch. LOL! I haven't had any luck hatching peafowl, but so far I've only tried shipped eggs. These eggs are fresh. The last one was laid yesterday. Put it in this morning!

So... does the white flights mean dark pied or white-eyed IB?
 

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