Peachicks of 2016 photos -- Let's see the babies!!!

[PhoredaBurds]

So I've been trying to channel my inner peahen, and look what hatched!

Looking for opinions on the first two: do they look like standard IBs? Could they be dark pieds? Their eggs came from a mixed pen w pieds, purples, and cameos. I know they're not cameos, but could they be at least carrying pied or purple?

 

[PhoredaBurds]

Here's another pic of the white chick:

 

[casportpony]

Congrats!

-Kathy

 

[DylansMom]

I don't really see any obvious indications that the first 2 would be dark pied, but sometimes they do not show any of the dark pied markings. The only way to know for sure would be to breed them to whites, if all offspring were pied, you know they are both dark pied.

 

[AnimalsRmyLife]

So I've been trying to channel my inner peahen, and look what hatched!






Looking for opinions on the first two: do they look like standard IBs? Could they be dark pieds? Their eggs came from a mixed pen w pieds, purples, and cameos. I know they're not cameos, but could they be at least carrying pied or purple?

Here's another pic of the white chick:

Congratulations!! They're adorable!

 

[PhoredaBurds]

I don't really see any obvious indications that the first 2 would be dark pied, but sometimes they do not show any of the dark pied markings. The only way to know for sure would be to breed them to whites, if all offspring were pied, you know they are both dark pied.

Great info. I hadn't heard that trick. Thank you!!

 

[casportpony]

I don't really see any obvious indications that the first 2 would be dark pied, but sometimes they do not show any of the dark pied markings. The only way to know for sure would be to breed them to whites, if all offspring were pied, you know they are both dark pied.

Sigh... wish I had know that!

-Kathy

 

[DylansMom]

On a genetically dark pied bird you have 2 pied genes but no white genes. Pair a dark pied with a white and every offspring will get 1 pied gene and 1 white gene and it gives you a reliable source of pieds. Unlike breeding pied to pied which will give you whites, pieds, dark pieds etc....

 

[PhoredaBurds]

On a genetically dark pied bird you have 2 pied genes but no white genes. Pair a dark pied with a white and every offspring will get 1 pied gene and 1 white gene and it gives you a reliable source of pieds. Unlike breeding pied to pied which will give you whites, pieds, dark pieds etc....

Thank you!! This super helpful! I mistakenly had thought that dark pied was just heterozygous (split) for pied. Think I'm starting to understand the role that white plays.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Bad turkey! this is what happens when a 30 pound turkey decides she wants to incubate pea eggs.

It's still alive, so fingers crossed.


-Kathy

I have never had any luck with my turkeys sitting and hatching eggs. They always crush them before they can hatch. I have only let them try theirs and chicken eggs. Others have good luck with them but I have tried numerous different boxes, the ground, bedding etc and nothing has worked. Love my turkeys but they just are not good broodies for me.
Fingers crossed this baby makes it!