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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!
