Peachick color help

[Prairiepoultry]

Hello all, just wondering if anyone has any idea on what coloring I may have here. I purchased eggs from a breeder, the egg this baby hatched from is from a pure India blue breeding pair she’s had separated for years. She has no idea where this color would come from. Thanks

First picture is shortly after hatch, I was assuming white. Several days later it’s his interesting peachy color.

 

[Waterfaery]

An India Blue Black Shoulder. The parents can be split to black shoulder without showing it.

If it's a peahen she will stay a beautiful creamish colour. If it's a peacock he will be like a regular India Blue but with solid black instead of barring.

 

[Prairiepoultry]

Thank you for your response! If it’s starting out this color would we assume it to be a peahen or can males start out this color and feather in with IB coloration? I have another baby that is IB split white and it hatched the typical “wild color” coloration.

Sorry brand new to peafowl this year! Love learning about the different genetics.

 

[KsKingBee]

This is the area to begin your education; https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/peafowl-sticky-topics-index.389059/

You may be confusing colors and patterns. IB are generally recessive to the Wild Type, being split to another pattern like BS will manifest itself when bred to another BS or split to BS bird. Patterns include Wild Type which isn't really a color or pattern but a base that they all revert back to if not a mutation color. Black Shoulder, White, Silver Pied, Pied, White Eye, and Dark Pied.

Color mutations only exist in the IB and not in Greens. Color can be recessive and act like BS in as much as both cocks and hens can be split to and it takes two birds of that color or split to that color to make that color. Sex-linked colors however act differently. Cocks can produce his color in hen chicks and make cock chicks split to his color with any colored hen. However if she is a non-sex-linked color she can also pass that color as well making multi-colored splits. There is also half sex-linked colors as well but that takes a lot of splainin'.

 

[Waterfaery]

Thank you for your response! If it’s starting out this color would we assume it to be a peahen or can males start out this color and feather in with IB coloration?

No, you can't assume it to be a peahen. They both start out like this and you won't know for a while.