Rare Rare Peachick

[coloradopeafowl]

He is three

 

[deerman]

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The peachick looks more like a pied ,not silver pied...What was his mother?

2 chicks on the left are Silver pied , other 2 are BS

 

[ChooksChick]

Okay, I have to know about the buckle the chicks are wearing- is this 'pinning?' How exactly does it work, and is the purpose similar to that of leg banding?

Here is the latest pic of my little chick- she hatched on June 24th, I think, and is getting the beginnings of a little crown. Any gender ideas?

Tail feathers:

I'm just afraid of falling in love with it and then finding it's a peacock rather than hen and being unable to keep it...sooner I'm safe or heartbroken, better...

 

[deerman]

Those are wing bands, each # so i will always know what the parents are..I keep a book for each year, only way to keep track with all the chicks I hatch.
Not pinning , that is were a section of a wing is remove to keep the bird from flying. Done mostly on waterfowl, like swans and etc.

She is still a little young to tell sex for sure, but looking more like a female.

She is a purple blackshoulder for sure.

 

[ChooksChick]

I'm glad she's looking female...I love her to death already! She peeps at me when she sees me and she just loves to sit on my shoulder. I am completely owned by her already.

She did something really weird today. I put her outside in the outdoor grow out pen, and she burrowed into the shavings under the ramp from the coop part of it. I was looking for her for a long time, knowing she couldn't get out, wondering where she was. She was under the ramp where it meets the ground, down on the soil, completely hunkered down. I keep expecting her to act just like a chicken, but clearly she's not a chicken...I'll learn as we go.

 

[ChooksChick]

Here are some shots of her today- she's always getting in the way when I'm trying to get shots of other chicks, but won't sit still for a second when I want her in the shot.

She was hatched June 24th or 25th, and so she's just over a month old...any clues on gender or am I still just being impatient?

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

WOW these peafowl are GORGEOUS! I never knew they existed in colors like this!

Chookschick- your pics are very blurry for some reason... hard to tell what they are...

Gorgeous baby tho whatever it is!

 

[ChooksChick]

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It's terrible shots from my Blackberry- all I have right now. Mainly it's just to show color, as I can't tell what gender this first peachick is! No experience with them at all!

 

[deerman]

Pic of my 50% spalding charcoal.

update pic of the 25% spalding charcoal pied.......hard to see in pic ,but looks like feathers coming in have barring...

 

[chickenzoo]

I'll have too add some of your peachicks to my wish list......