Java and IB's or something else??

[deerman]

Thats the trouble with mixed pens, no matter what birds are in the pen.....just raise a bunch of blues. May be 10 years before you will know what they are split too....


Just pure luck if you get two birds split the same together....

 

[spectrumranch]

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Splits or not............ they still grow up to be beautiful birds!

 

[deerman]

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Splits or not............ they still grow up to be beautiful birds!

The split is not the problem...its having no idea what they are split to..be nice to know what to breed them to..to get the opal, or that bs pied.

Like a breeder of OEGB throwing all colors in a large pen, blacks, blues, BBR, brown reds, and etc.

Same with other breeds of birds....just a crap shoot on what you get...same when you breed them for years.


Like your Opal BS , in that pen breeding , just the same as a normal blue. Not as if anything is wrong with blues.

Thing get me people selling from a mixed pen, listing all the colors and patterns in there...then buyers thinking they will get those colors or patterns......when most will be blues... How many Opal BS have you hatched, and which are carring the opal BS genes

Should be some kind of control of breeding. Most people wouldn't even think of throwing alot of pure breed dogs in a kennel and letting nature take over......

 

[deerman]

Ok Randy , know you raise ringneck pheasant in lots of rare color...blues, silvers, pieds, and etc. now you wouldn't throw those in a large flight pen with normal ringnecks. Were the blues sell for 100.00 and the normal ringneck sell for 10.00. Because you want control of what color the birds that hatch, also with would carry the blue gene....

 

[coloradopeafowl]

I agree, especially when people say that they have a pen with 6 spaldings and a pair of Javas in it now heres you chance to get Javas cheap

, now you really think that you gonna get a pure java chick! I HIGHLY DOUBT IT!

 

[spectrumranch]

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Splits or not............ they still grow up to be beautiful birds!

The split is not the problem...its having no idea what they are split to..be nice to know what to breed them to..to get the opal, or that bs pied.

Like a breeder of OEGB throwing all colors in a large pen, blacks, blues, BBR, brown reds, and etc.

Same with other breeds of birds....just a crap shoot on what you get...same when you breed them for years.


Like your Opal BS , in that pen breeding , just the same as a normal blue. Not as if anything is wrong with blues.

Thing get me people selling from a mixed pen, listing all the colors and patterns in there...then buyers thinking they will get those colors or patterns......when most will be blues... How many Opal BS have you hatched, and which are carring the opal BS genes

Should be some kind of control of breeding. Most people wouldn't even think of throwing alot of pure breed dogs in a kennel and letting nature take over......

When we had 350 breeder peafowl we used to keep them all seperate. But since moving and now not focusing on peafowl production I have not had time to build pens to seperate all the peafowl. I have not made any guanatees or implications on what colors will be produced. My auction's state what colors are in the pen. If buyers are concerned with the exact color they will get or need to know what they are split to...... they can buy from a seller that guarantees that. The buyer that wants some peafowl in the backyard and likes the chance at more than one color- it works out fine.

Just cause there are several colors in the flock and I sell eggs............... is no different than....... people that have several colors running around there farm and sell the chicks or breeders that take their surplus split birds and sell them at auctions with no records.

I have only hatched a few peachicks- which were actually Blue Pied and Silver pied from the mixed pen. I set the first eggs to make sure eggs were fertile, since then I have only set 5 more eggs which are due to hatch in a week or so, for a customer that wants to raise some from chicks. The other 288 eggs so far have been shipped. I do not want to hatch that many chicks, as I would not have room or time for them. the couple hunderd yearlings we sell each spring we buy from 3 of our customers that do not want to market birds themselves.

I'm not most people....nor do I want to be!

 

[Phage]

I would just like to say that this is the second year of buying eggs from Randy, and his shipped eggs are by far the best at hatching for me, and have been both years.

Of the 10 he sent in this set, all made it lockdown, I had 7 chicks hatched. In addition to the 4 blues, I also have a white, a black shouldered, and a pied.


Last year I had 2 cameo black shouldered, and a pied also from the mixed pen:

I love the fact that these eggs hatch!! and do not cost a fortune. Most go on to people who really enjoy them as blues or whatever.

I take Deerman's point, but I hope Randy continues to sell his peafowl eggs even if it is not a main focus, and was very happy indeed to see that he was still selling them this year. I will get getting them from for as long as he does!!!

Thanks Randy!!

 

[deerman]

Randy , just making a point about mixed pens. So you are not breeding to raise them, just selling hatching eggs. My point is if you want to try breeding for colors or patterns. Best not breed in mixed pens.

 

[Choctaw Valley Farm]

You may want to stop while your a head .............................

 

[spectrumranch]

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