Peahen color: Cameo or Montana?

[adcarstens]

I’ve got a pair of yearling peahens that I hatched from shipped eggs last year. The chicks got mixed up at hatching, and could have been either peach, cameo or Montana. This was the first time I had hatched eggs from either of those colors before.

The hens are identical - can anyone confirm if the hen pictured is cameo or Montana? I was pretty sure this isn’t peach…

In the last picture she is shown from the back with a cameo silver pied cock and an opal white eye yearling cock.

 

[KsKingBee]

If there is no iridescence on the back of the neck it is Cameo. Too dark for either Montana or Peach.

 

[adcarstens]

If there is no iridescence on the back of the neck it is Cameo. Too dark for either Montana or Peach.

Thank you very much.

The breeding pen included peach hens, a peach male and a split peach male - can these hens be split to peach from this stock? Or would just be straight cameo?

I’m still a little fuzzy on color genetics.

 

[KsKingBee]

Hens cannot be split to a sex-link color so she is just Cameo. One of the Peach breeders is split to Cameo.

 

[adcarstens]

Thank you, that is very helpful