Show off your Peas!

[Peafowlssssssss]

If he is out of the WE hen, he could have gotten her Pied gene as well, but I won't hold my breath on that. And snowshoe even said the other 2 Bronze hens could have splits he is not aware of so we will just wait and see, he has so many light colored spotty looking feathers now it will be interesting to see what stays light when he matures. The orange feathers are on Peaches wing. I was saying that when she grows in new feathers they look very Orange next to the older feathers so the orange must fade as the feather ages. This will make it even harder to tell if a hen is Cameo or Peach if it hasn't just molted.

How? You said its split pied, right? As i understand both parents should be split pied to have some offspring split pied. If she was pied then she could pass the pied gene herself.

 

[DylansMom]

How? You said itssplit pied, right? As i understand both parents should be split pied to have some offspring split pied. If she was pied then she could pass the pied gene herself.

If she is split pied it means she carries 1 copy of the pied gene and no copy of white, this is why she is not pied herself. When she passes along her genes 50% of chicks could get that pied gene, 50% would not. At least that is my understanding. If both parents are split pied they could each pass on a pied gene, and the offspring would get 2 copies making it a dark pied as there are no white genes, which are needed to create an actual pied.

 

[zazouse]

This is Rio

Pretty boy, he looks good against the white background, not something i get to see here.

 

[ellymayRans]

I haven't been this excited for some time!! Lol! Not in a weird way mind you...but I just for the very first time witnessed my IB pair mating! I didn't think she even liked him! Lol!

They free range and she's been raising 2 young ones. So funny... He was displaying and next thing I knew he was mating her...then the 2 young white (both boys) stood there watching and then started displaying! What a great day!

 

[zazouse]

I haven't been this excited for some time!! Lol! Not in a weird way mind you...but I just for the very first time witnessed my IB pair mating! I didn't think she even liked him! Lol!

They free range and she's been raising 2 young ones. So funny... He was displaying and next thing I knew he was mating her...then the 2 young white (both boys) stood there watching and then started displaying! What a great day!

you should have eggs in a few weeks, congratulations

 

[Dcawdrey]

This is my big boy displaying for his ladies. I can't wait for eggs this year from my IB's and Whites.

 

[zazouse]

Handsome boy

 

[ellymayRans]

you should have eggs in a few weeks, congratulations

That's great news Zaz! Thanks

Anything in particular I should watch out for? Change in behavior? Etc?

 

[zazouse]

No but until you know your hen and know that she will not kill them i would pull them and putt them in lock down in the incubator, also if you let the hen keep them for a couple days and she they bond with her you might have holey heck if you decide you need to take them from her and it can be difficult to get them to eat, same thing if the peahen hatches them or they imprint on you but in this case you can get them to eat cause you are the mom and dad, their cries and running the pen sides will beak your heart, i had to put shelf liner around all the bottom of my outdoor brooder so they would not bloody their little beaks when they saw me, after a few days they stopped and things were fine they would just come a running no more crying.
So IMO it is best to take them right off the bat and let them imprint on you so you know they are eating because they could die with this going on at such a young age.

This is just what i have learned about them so far you can not beat a broody hen also you pule them eggs before hatch they most likely will set you more eggs and continue threw the season, some folks say this is bad for the hens but when you got hens like mine they are just going to go off and try to sit what ever other eggs they can find so might as well let them hatch what you want.

 

[KsKingBee]

Went to the auction Friday and unloaded 50+ guineas, 150+ chicken chicks, six laying hens, six ducks, one Royal Palm turkey, two mature IB hens, and did I say 50+ guineas?

It is SO peaceful here today, I should have given those **** guineas away a lot sooner!

I did bring one hen home, the only Black Shoulder hen I have ever seen there, and it was a steal. The owner did not know anything about the parentage of the hen and I am not that versed in them so I am asking if you see anything in her that would tell me which breeding pen I may want to put her into. She is more blackish on her back than my yearling BS hens that are more brownish.



Rocky, the IBBSWE checking out the new talent.











Also wanting to know if this is a pretty standard looking BS wing.