Show off your Peas!

[Garden Peas]

Hmm, now you have me thinking about my BS hen! She also has a very light (looks white) feather in her crest. I have thought she might be split white or split pied, but her egg came out of a "mixed" pen, so I don't think we know which birds laid the egg, and none of her eggs have hatched yet - this was her first year laying, she's just two

We went out to clean the pen today, and managed a little bit of a photo shoot while we were cleaning. So here is Turquoise -- she is (I believe) an IBBS but is clearly either split to white or pied. (She and the opal SP are totally attached to each other -- can you tell?

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You can see the white flights on both sides. She actually has several one one side, and one or two on the other.








It was hard to get a decent photo of her crest -- in the photo above, you can see how light some of the feathers are. There are also a couple of iridescent blue feathers, and then some other colors -- see below:



I don't know enough to be say what white crest feathers mean, in general, but it seems to me that this girl definitely has a split to white or pied, with all those white flight feathers that I didn't photograph very well

When we were cleaning and washing out the nest box (dog house), we found one of her last eggs that she had been sitting on at the very end of the summer before she gave up. She was really dedicated during that last round of eggs. I candled it just out of curiousity, and it looks like it was probably fairly far along (2 1/2 - 3 weeks) when it expired. There were some early in the summer that were developing in the incubator when the power went out for 3-4 hours (and I wasn't home), and some others, mid-summer, that did not appear to have been fertilized. So, maybe next year...

 

[casportpony]

Very pretty! Looks like she has a huge white throat patch?

-Kathy

 

[Garden Peas]

Very pretty! Looks like she has a huge white throat patch?

-Kathy

Lol, I guess she does

I never noticed it until you pointed it out

(I will say that the bird is so light colored overall that you don't notice the white patch on her throat until you look pretty hard -- it just blends in with the rest of her. But in that second picture, where the body of the bird is in out of the direct sunlight, it stands out like a beacon

I actually went back outside to look at her -- since I had never noticed it -- it's actually kind of hard to see in the sunlight. Also, she is getting less green on her neck as she gets older. She had more green on her (hence PeaLover 130's designation of "Turquoise") last year and the year before.

Talk about a picture being worth a thousand words

So can anyone explain which of the three "white" genes (white/pied/white eyed) results in white crest feathers when the bird carries only one of that gene? Or can they all? Or does anyone know?

 

[Birdrain92]

Maybe it's that new Progressive Pied thing that they are talking about being a pattern mutation were the bird gets more white every year.

Here's an update on Thora

 

[zazouse]

So proud of my newest girl, she stays with the peas most of the time and this morning i was looking out of the patio doors at the new place and i saw a fox skirting the ridge threw the trees, a peacock took off in flight which alerted Annie and she spotted the fox before it spotted her and she met it head on, meanwhile the other dogs also saw it and they were on their way, they chased that fox right down into a hole where they spent the rest of the day waiting for it to come out.








My daughters new home is coming along great considering it rains a few times a week

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Annie!

Smart girl and excellent pea guardian!

 

[AnimalsRmyLife]

Annie - the GREAT Guard Dog!

 

[Prairie Fleur]

Good girl!!!! Sounds like you've got an amazing LGD, Zaz! Hope my little guys turns out. He's only about 12-14 weeks but he stays with the stock and birds very well!

 

[margaret8]

Here are my BS hens. They are 12 mo old. Do you they are split to white?

 

[margaret8]

Peep got a little impatient because I was feedi f the other ones so.....he stuck his head in the bag and helped himself!