Show off your Peas!

[margaret8]

I hope 1 will do, they both look alike!

 

[Garden Peas]

I hope 1 will do, they both look alike!

Hmm, still kind of hard to see -- birds can be hard to photograph. Or, as Pealover130 said when we were snapping pics last week, "If they would only stop moving!!!"

The primary flight feathers and/or primary coverts may be white on a split bird -- look to see if any of the feathers closer to the wingtip edge of the wing are white. Look at these photos of my hen:





Can you see the white feathers (it looks like a thin white stripe) BELOW the rust colored feathers? She has them on both sides. But it can be hard to see them most of the time, because when she walks around with her wings tucked up, those feathers are hidden under other wing feathers. So I had to wait until she drooped the wing a tiny bit to snap the pictures. It was hard to catch, because... they keep moving

 

[margaret8]

Hmm, still kind of hard to see -- birds can be hard to photograph. Or, as Pealover130 said when we were snapping pics last week, "If they would only stop moving!!!" The primary flight feathers and/or primary coverts may be white on a split bird -- look to see if any of the feathers closer to the wingtip edge of the wing are white. Look at these photos of my hen: Can you see the white feathers (it looks like a thin white stripe) BELOW the rust colored feathers? She has them on both sides. But it can be hard to see them most of the time, because when she walks around with her wings tucked up, those feathers are hidden under other wing feathers. So I had to wait until she drooped the wing a tiny bit to snap the pictures. It was hard to catch, because... they keep moving

Both of them have a couple of white feathers and they have their bottom rust feather edged I white!

 

[margaret8]

My BS male is split to white does that mean I have a 50% chance of having a white chick?

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Yes but only when you breed him with a white hen.

 

[casportpony]

Yes but only when you breed him with a white hen.

Or another split to white, right?

-Kathy

 

[Quailchild]

One of two young peafowl I recently adopted into my flock.

 

[Garden Peas]

My BS male is split to white does that mean I have a 50% chance of having a white chick?

I have to disagree here

Your girls look to be split to "something white" but I don't think we can decisively say based on the photos whether it is white, or pied or white eye, can we?

To get white, both parents have to donate a white gene. So if your hens are carrying a pied gene or a white eye gene but not a white gene, then you won't get white, even if you breed to an all white male.

You can get those white primaries and a white throat patch from pied and WE genes too, if my understanding of the genetics is correct.

But whatever you get, I will guarantee the chicks will be 100% cute!

 

[Garden Peas]

Or another split to white, right?

-Kathy

I think the numbers in that case (IB split white x IB split white) come out 1/4 IB, 1/4 white, and 1/2 IB split white, don't they?

 

[BYC-user-174785]

One of two young peafowl I recently adopted into my flock.

Very nice! What color is it?