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[MinxFox]

Is that a blackshoulder?? Male blackshoulders start off white then slowly get black wings. It can take them sometimes 4 or more years for their wings to fully blacken. I think that is just some of the 'baby' color that he has yet to lose.

 

[mandyok]

Oh ok he will be 3 in August so very well could be, I guess I was just rushing him because he was able to breed and the hen produced two eggs, one chick is here a bs boy and a girl that went to Margaret

 

[MinxFox]

He is mature, it just takes the blackshoulders longer to color out.

 

[mandyok]

Yes his personality toward the others does show his age

 

[peacock12]

If you are referring to the white flight feather on her wing, it is indicative of a split to either white, pied or possibly even white eye. Nothing to do with Black Shoulder though.

Yes i was refering to the few white frather wings sorry about that ,...so you think she is carrying some white or split ? Awesome

 

[Dany12]

WoW ! very good place to make free ranging !.....may be at the end of the breeding season!
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[DylansMom]

Yes i was refering to the few white frather wings sorry about that ,...so you think she is carrying some white or split ? Awesome

Yes, to have a white wing feather like that she would have to be carrying some kind of split to white, pied or white eye.

 

[peacock12]

Yes, to have a white wing feather like that she would have to be carrying some kind of split to white, pied or white eye.

Which one is the white eyes ?? Or pide ??

 

[peacock12]

Yes i was refering to the few white frather wings sorry about that ,...so you think she is carrying some white or split ? Awesome

Any chance of my 9 month old male being a white eyes ?

 

[DylansMom]

Any chance of my 9 month old male being a white eyes ?

In order for a bird to be a White Eye it needs 2 copies of that gene, if it has 2 copies it will have white in the center of all or almost all of the eye feathers in its train. If it has only 1 copy of the White Eye gene we say it is split to White Eye, and if it is split it will only have a couple eye feathers with white in the center. If your hen is carrying a single copy she could pass that on to the young male, but he would have to have gotten a second copy from his dad in order to end up as a White Eye. A bird that is White Eye(2 copies), will have other visible traits. such as silvering on the wing feathers. This male is a yearling and he is a pied as well as double copy White Eye.



See how light in color the striped wing feathers are.