Peachick Show 2023

[StevenW.]

Looks like a low Spalding Taupe Pied hen chick to me. Are the other chicks your product or did they come from the same place?

I have the parents here. I have a pen setup that should produce Spalding opal, Spalding taupe and Spalding purple in different patterns. But the male is a 2 year old and hasn’t given me fertilized eggs.
The BSWE chick is from the same pen as the chick fanning. Opal chick is from a Spalding opal trio. Purple WE and peach chicks are from other sources.

 

[KsKingBee]

I have the parents here. I have a pen setup that should produce Spalding opal, Spalding taupe and Spalding purple in different patterns. But the male is a 2 year old and hasn’t given me fertilized eggs.
The BSWE chick is from the same pen as the chick fanning. Opal chick is from a Spalding opal trio. Purple WE and peach chicks are from other sources.

I have a pen set up like that too. Headed by an Opal Pied WE split Purple and over two Purple and two Taupe hens in different patterns. Taupe hens are the most versatile hens in a breeding program.

 

[StevenW.]

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Who wants to guess the color of the chick fanning? Parents are a Spalding blackshoulder white eyed male and 2 Spalding white eyed split BS hens.
It must be a sex linked color but the seller is adamant that the daddy is not split to a sex linked color.
I know the colors of the 4 on the left side. Top to bottom: BSWE, opal, purple white eyed, peach.

Here are a few more updated pictures of the chick in question. The lighting and angle of the picture can change the color drastically.

 

[Midnightman14]

Spalding steel sport split to blackshoulder hen.

 

[KsKingBee]

Here are a few more updated pictures of the chick in question. The lighting and angle of the picture can change the color drastically.

I am afraid that you are going to have to wait until this fall when it is fully feathered out. You will be able to tell more by looking at both the color and the tail color. Taupe and Purple can be hard to tell apart especially when there is a white gene involved.

 

[StevenW.]

I am afraid that you are going to have to wait until this fall when it is fully feathered out. You will be able to tell more by looking at both the color and the tail color. Taupe and Purple can be hard to tell apart especially when there is a white gene involved.

So my odd colored chicks are charcoal after talking to Leggs. Tan coloring is Spalding influence. So I have Spalding charcoal WE split blackshoulder. A special chick indeed.
First pic is the Spalding charcoal with Spalding opals.

 

[1lilmrnstr]

Wild Pattern or Barred Wing. We imported the only European Violet into America last March along with four pair, two for us, of UltraMarine, also the only ones in the States. Pictured is the UM and the EV, the trains were cut off for transport.

Wow!!! They are beautiful! That purple one is amazing!!

 

[The Birb King]

I'm very determined to hatch my first peafowl next year! I'm getting more eggs as soon as I can

 

[KsKingBee]

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So my odd colored chicks are charcoal after talking to Leggs. Tan coloring is Spalding influence. So I have Spalding charcoal WE split blackshoulder. A special chick indeed.
First pic is the Spalding charcoal with Spalding opals.

Charcoal hens are special indeed, they do not lay eggs. The cock will be very pretty but beware the life span is usually very short.

 

[The Birb King]

Charcoal hens are special indeed, they do not lay eggs. The cock will be very pretty but beware the life span is usually very short.

How do they not lay eggs?