Looking for an I.D. on these two peachicks.

[deerman]

only way to get a purple male. you must breed a purple male or a male split to purple to a purple hen.

 

[bdfive]

Deerman, what is it about the peahen that identifies it as a white eye?

Wishing you well.

yes first pic pied also white eye. 2nd one my guess dark pied.

Ruth thanks foe asking, lot going on today, lad work bad so had MRI today. Don't feel to bad, but its not going away.

Sorry i got back to you late.....note the one hen is lighter in color...thats the white eye.

 

[deerman]

Deerman, what is it about the peahen that identifies it as a white eye?

Wishing you well.

As Kev like to say , they have a frosty look to their feathers. light grey cast , some will have a few white feathers on their back.

Need to keep good records on the chicks from your opal white eye. the white eye will be real; hard to see on a opal hen. You should see what a opal white eye peacock sell for......your blackshoulder peacock as a young bird does look like it is a low % spalding..


We know one of your peacock produce a BS so the hen has to be split to BS..


Birds are not split to white eye, only one parent needs to be white eye to get white eye, but W.E. X W.E. =100 % W.E..


One thing to keep in mind if you free range your peahen can produce chicks from more than one peacock.

The one you call emerald maybe but he would need to be 3/4 green, which you can't know....it does look like one.


For sure you have done a great job raising them, i remember seeing them as peachicks.


I even learn from you, you would feed them wet mash from your fingers. I had always started them on starter with hard boil egg yolks. I try wetting the starter....they go crazy over it...that worked great i used that the last two years. they would come and eat it from my hand with a feeder full of the same food just not wet. So you taught this old dog a new trick...

 

[ruth]

As Kev like to say , they have a frosty look to their feathers. light grey cast , some will have a few white feathers on their back.

Need to keep good records on the chicks from your opal white eye. the white eye will be real; hard to see on a opal hen. You should see what a opal white eye peacock sell for......your blackshoulder peacock as a young bird does look like it is a low % spalding..


We know one of your peacock produce a BS so the hen has to be split to BS..


Birds are not split to white eye, only one parent needs to be white eye to get white eye, but W.E. X W.E. =100 % W.E..


One thing to keep in mind if you free range your peahen can produce chicks from more than one peacock.

The one you call emerald maybe but he would need to be 3/4 green, which you can't know....it does look like one.


For sure you have done a great job raising them, i remember seeing them as peachicks.


I even learn from you, you would feed them wet mash from your fingers. I had always started them on starter with hard boil egg yolks. I try wetting the starter....they go crazy over it...that worked great i used that the last two years. they would come and eat it from my hand with a feeder full of the same food just not wet. So you taught this old dog a new trick...

Aww Deerman - I'm touched and honored that you picked up a "trick" from me. When I got those first baby peachicks in the mail I had never had any kind of chicks at all before and I knew they had already gone three days with no food/water so I was worried about them. They didn't seem to be eating right away. At the time I had very long red-painted fingernails and I started tapping at the food like a mother hen. Well they started pecking at my nails so I wet the food and scooped some up with my nail and they went crazy eating out of my fingernails. I continued to feed them by hand till they were a few months old and it would hurt when they would bite my fingers. After that I turned them loose and they have been the rulers of the farm ever since.


Now y'all lost me on the genetics part. So since the mother (the purple) produced a BS (color to still be determined) that means she is "split" and that also means the BS chick is "split" to purple???? Am I right so far? So if he carries "purple" and she is purple can I breed her to her son and get a purple male? Are there any genetic reasons not to breed them to their offspring because since they all roam free I'm guessing that's going to happen eventually anyway as long as they run free.

What does a white eye Opal sell for? Does it mean they are rarer? Personally I think he's the least colorful and attractive. His color picked up and seems to show in the photo but in general he doesn't show any color. But same question - if the young peahen chick is a white eye (which how will I know when she's grown?) could/should I breed her back to her father?

I guess what I'm asking at this point, since I have a variety of colors and patterns - which ones should I maybe put in a pen and purposely breed to one another to get either new colors or a pure/positive outcome for a specific color? Does that question make sense? I do have a huge fenced in barn area that we use as kennels and for the goats and some of the huge pens are still unused so I could pen up some of the adults this season if it would yield better results for positive outcome of colors.

 

[deerman]

yes the sons from your purple hen will all be split purple. yes if you breed him back to his mother you will get both blues and purple in both sex.

if you breed hin to another hen, say a blue ,half of his daughter will be purple.

opal w.e. peacock at that age sell for over 250.

If you want opal , the w.e hen you have maybe his daughter if so yes breed back to him will give you opals.

really depend on what colors you want. we know the purple hen is split to BS , so if you mate her with your bs peacock....you will get some bs in both sex..males will be split purple.

 

[ruth]

Hey guys - me again. With an updated picture of my mystery boy. He's looking lighter to me. Here he is strutting his stuff today. Is this still a blue blackshoulder????

 

[Arbor]

I'd say your right, IB blackshoulder

 

[ruth]

I'd say your right, IB blackshoulder

Thanks - that's what we all thought but it doesn't seem as if his white feathers are turning dark. Maybe he's still not old enough but he's getting the colored neck but still has so much white on him. I don't remember his daddy (an IB Blackshoulder) ever looking this white.

 

[Arbor]

It will take some time before he loses the white on him (couple of years). Ive got a two year old who looks almost as he should, but still has some white on his wings, which he'll lose during his next moult in the fall.

 

[ruth]

It will take some time before he loses the white on him (couple of years). Ive got a two year old who looks almost as he should, but still has some white on his wings, which he'll lose during his next moult in the fall.

Ahhh - thanks - makes sense that he would have to moult to lose all the white feathers. He's such a little cutie though - been strutting his stuff since he was just a few days old. I knew right away he was a he. And yes I know girls can strut too but this little guy has always been different. He was solid yellow and was always the one missing from the bunch - always off getting into trouble.