Peachick colour/pattern ID help!!

[Devadee]

Please can someone help me figure out what my peachicks are... these are our first hatch. I know the yellow chick will be white, and I'm hoping the patchy one is pied. It's the pale one that has me completely stumped. I have my white pair in a separate enclosure, but in the other, I have an IB pied white eyed male with what should be an IB pied hen and a purple hen. My IB male was supposed to be pied, but he has very little white other than a throat patch and flights and he doesn't have all white eyes either, just some

 

[Midnightman14]

Pale chick is a white eye/split white eye.

 

[KsKingBee]

What? You didn't breed the Purple cock? You have the Purple hen that would make a good pairing. All the rest are IB carrying one of the white genes, the gray one could be Opal or it is washed out from the white genetics. Don't feel bad, even large breeders wait until fall to evaluate the birds when the patterns have developed.

 

[Devadee]

Pale chick is a white eye/split white eye.

Ah right. I spoke to one of the breeders I got my birds from and she said she thinks the pale one an opal?
Peafowl genetics are so confusing. I'm really struggling to get my head around it all

 

[Devadee]

What? You didn't breed the Purple cock? You have the Purple hen that would make a good pairing. All the rest are IB carrying one of the white genes, the gray one could be Opal or it is washed out from the white genetics. Don't feel bad, even large breeders wait until fall to evaluate the birds when the patterns have developed.

I was going to breed the purple cock but he didn't get a look in. Although he's the same age as the rest, for some reason, his train just didn't grow any more than last year. I just left him in with the IB cock and hens because without his train, he wasn't a threat so no scrapping. My white cock and IB cock started scrapping early on so they were separated before breeding. I've sold the last white and IB but I'm going to keep the 2 pied and mystery chick

 

[Devadee]

What? You didn't breed the Purple cock? You have the Purple hen that would make a good pairing. All the rest are IB carrying one of the white genes, the gray one could be Opal or it is washed out from the white genetics. Don't feel bad, even large breeders wait until fall to evaluate the birds when the patterns have developed.

It hasn't grown much more than this

 

[KsKingBee]

It hasn't grown much more than this

Are you concerned about his late-to-develop genetics or his being old enough to breed? Here is a two-year-old White Violet thrust into service where the main breeder a Violet BS had died. You do need to watch young cocks, their newly acquired hormones can cause them to do some odd and stupid things. Like defending his territory from the cock in the next pen over that he forgets to breed his hens. Can also cause some domestic abuse.

 

[Devadee]

Ok, So if I did separate the purples, you think he would be successful in seducing his hen? If she didn't have another option? there's still time yet, although they've all stopped laying simultaneously. We've had a fox sniffing around which I thought may have spooked them. It took 2 of my indian runner ducks but they were on the opposite side of our property and there's no signs of it being up the top at all.

 

[KsKingBee]

Possibly. There are a lot of variables in mating the birds for a successful breeding season. We make our parrings in the fall, that way they have all winter to get used to each other and the environment they live in. We are already seeing some of our hybrids dropping trains so the season is nearly done for those types. Like you said there is still time and it will hurt nothing to try parring them up even at this point of the season.

 

[Webinthewoodsfarm]

Hi guys! I have a 2 week old peachick here. Any guesses on color type? Happy weekend!