Need help identifying color patterns of peahens

I don't have them. These pics are from the current owner. I am thinking of getting 1 or 2. I have an adult IB trio and wanted to add something different. He is calling the perched male, a cameo pied. I liked his coloring,but did not think that sounded right.
 
I don't have them. These pics are from the current owner. I am thinking of getting 1 or 2. I have an adult IB trio and wanted to add something different. He is calling the perched male, a cameo pied. I liked his coloring,but did not think that sounded right.

That perched male is not a Cameo Pied, this is a Cameo Pied. Cameos have NO blue on the neck and NO green in the train/tail feathers.



No offense meant to whoever has these birds, but he seems to have no idea what they are.
 
Pretty bird! That's what I was thinking. That is why I wanted to id the hens. ;)
 
Pretty bird! That's what I was thinking. That is why I wanted to id the hens.
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I can't seem to get your pics of the hens to enlarge. They are so small that I hesitate to try to id them, my eyes are not as good as they used to be.
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Looks like a bit of a crowding problem, but I understand that.  It takes time to get enough space for that many birds.  Every night I have all my free-rangers, 36, in a 24 x 36 pen but they are out all day long and come back for feed at night.  They wil be split into breeding pens soon and others sold off.  If you are going to keep them contained try to provide 100 sf per bird.  I know of one major breeder that has his breeders in as little space as 6 sf per bird, but obviously more is better.  It is real easy for respiratory problems and cocci to get out of hand when overcrowded.


They have access to other runs. He herded them in this run to get pictures. They have some shelter. He is in process of selling them. I doubt he keeps any.
 
I know the feeling, DylansMom.;). I'll try to post larger pics.

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Front and back view of the one farthest from the male on the perch.
 
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Front and back view of the other hen and cock. I see the barring on him now and understand why he is not a BS pied.
 
I know the feeling, DylansMom.
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Front and back view of the one farthest from the male on the perch.

This is a Black Shoulder hen, but she is not an India Blue BS. She could be Cameo BS, Purple BS, or Bronze BS. I have all of these and she most closely resembles my Purple BS hen. I can probably find pics of all if you would like to use them for comparison. The Pied Male also looks very much like it could be a Purple Pied, even though "he" said he doesn't have purples, I would still not be convinced they weren't.
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If I got the cock and the two hens, what color offspring would I probably get? I thought if I got the cock to go with my IB hens, I would still have IB offspring. Right?
 

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