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[DylansMom]

I remember someone here said he has cameo male split to peach, not sure who was, but i wish if he can tell us how his male looks.

My Peach Pied hen was fathered by this male, he is supposed to be Cameo Pied WE split to Peach.



He was paired with 2 Peach hens who both had some white wing feathers, he must be split Peach because they produced several Peach chicks including a Male chick that is definitely Peach, he looks nothing like this male, and is very orange all over.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

My Peach Pied hen was fathered by this male, he is supposed to be Cameo Pied WE split to Peach.



He was paired with 2 Peach hens who both had some white wing feathers, he must be split Peach because they produced several Peach chicks including a Male chick that is definitely Peach, he looks nothing like this male, and is very orange all over.

This male looks like my cameo w/e male, how did the owner know its split peach? Did he know after breeding him?

I remember the owner of the peacock i posted said its a rare peacock, maybe its something different than a regular cameo male split peach or peach split cameo.

 

[DylansMom]

This male looks like my cameo w/e male, how did the owner know its split peach? Did he know after breeding him?

I remember the owner of the peacock i posted said its a rare peacock, maybe its something different than a regular cameo male split peach or peach split cameo.

He was told by the person he bought the male from that it was split Peach. He paired it with the 2 Peach hens and I think a Cameo BS hen, he got no BS offspring, but did get quite a few Cameos, Cameo Pieds as well as Peach Pied and the orange male who is I think a Peach dark Pied. I need to get up to his place soon, and if I can I will take some more pictures.

 

[Rosa moschata]

That went 20,000 ft over my head Rosa

OK, I'll explain it better.

An IB split to Purple peacock doesn't show the effect of having one copy of Purple because the one non-Purple (i.e. "normal") version of that gene is "enough" to prevent the Purple version from being visible. I was wondering if in a Cameo male -- whose plumage is already diluted from IB to the Cameo color -- might show a tad more dilution if he also had one copy of Purple, but not as much dilution as if he also had two copies of Purple, since that would make him Peach. If this is the case, perhaps this explains why there appear to be lighter and darker Cameo males -- the lighter ones are really split to Peach (i.e. they have one Z with Cameo, and one Z with Cameo and Purple together), and the darker ones are not. Further evidence in favor of this idea would be if the light vs dark Cameo variations are not found among peahens, since they can't be split to sex-linked mutations.

 

[DylansMom]

It is my understanding that like Purple, Cameo and Peach will also "fade" with exposure to sunlight. If this is the case how do we know we are not seeing different shades simply because some have spent more time in the sun than others?

 

[Rosa moschata]

It is my understanding that like Purple, Cameo and Peach will also "fade" with exposure to sunlight. If this is the case how do we know we are not seeing different shades simply because some have spent more time in the sun than others?

Good point! So perhaps this would be best illustrated by comparison pics within the same flock -- or, at least, taken early enough in the year that fading hasn't yet become noticeable.

 

[AugeredIn]

We have tried the whole cameo split purple and purple split cameo thing and have not produced any lighter or darker birds.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

I really get lost everytime I read about sex-linked colors.

 

[KsKingBee]

I really get lost everytime I read about sex-linked colors.

You are not alone my friend.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

I have cameo and peach,maybe if they cooperate I can get some pics tonight. ps,,both has only been outside for a week so no fading of either color from sunlight yet. One more thing about peach and cameo,,I said it here years ago I think their both the same color,just a shade diffrence between them