silver pied chicks

[Yoda]

If I remember correctly the males will start to show green around the neck and between the shoulders (wings) and the hens will stay brownish tan. A silver pied is mostly 80 - 90% white with the rest color pattern. A pied has some white on the body, white flight feathers and train and a dark pied has white flight feathers.

Yours both look like hens

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Peafowlmom,,don't know about intelligent ,,,I'm still learning here,,genetics are still my worst subject in peafowl.I think hands down Arbor,Connerhills,DMF Farms, and Aqua Eyes are the tops at genetics on this peafowl forum,although many bigger breeders who don't come here knows pea genetics hands down.Those breeders could have probably verify or discount my predictions for your birds. But I spend about as much time observing my peachicks daily as I do doing chores for the 50 adults birds I have.This is my first year to be able to hatch out significant numbers of 7 seperate colors I have penned and then watch the chicks as they change.And out of the 8 total diffrent colors of Peas I have,these 5 colors happens to be B/S,, Opal,Midnight,Purple,Silver Pied and India Blue .It was impossible to see daily changes the the past two years from buying hatching-fertile eggs because manytimes auctions had 1-2 eggs of this color,,1-2 of another color,,and as luck would always have it,only 1 would hatch so you had nothing to compare it to.But when you can hatch out 4-6 same colored-patterned peachicks all at once and keep them seperate so you know they all are the same color,it's soon very easy to start noticing changes between sister and brother.There is no "expert" here otherwise people asking the questions would have to pay to get an answer and settle for nothing less than being 100% correct everytime.I hope I am correct by my observations of my own chicks and I have already written down what sex I think my chicks are along with wingband numbers on those I will keep for myself.Some such as IB and Bronze are tough but by looking at barring patterns,comparing colors of same color chicks and writing this down so to be able to track that individual chick for the next 8 months is how I plan to know for sure if my theories are correct.Observing cuticle color changes in areas known to express diffrent colors on same colored adult birds is another way I hope to seperate sex on peas I know neck feathers on some colors are much darker on males compared to hens.On B/S birds the male is the one who eventually has all the color while hens stays basically white with specks or a dusting of black across their backs So it only makes sense that the males of the b/s pattern will show a more intense amount of color than future hens will.In Bronze adult males,they are much,much darker than bronze hens.Straight IB hens lose their barring on feathers while the ale retains this barring his entire life.
Dark or silver pieds are much tougher because both looks very similar when they are adults.I see in my few pied only birds the males exhibit a much darker "dark" color where the pied pattern is compared to hens.But in dark or just silver pied chicks you cannot see this until they are much older.I'm still making a lot of mental notes as well as written-scribbled ones in my notebook which is now full.Genetics will be next but that will need to be a HUGE notebook.
Your post#17 above,,In the colors of IB,Bronze,Purple,Midnight,and Opal b/s chicks (all yellow when hatched) the males will start to show much more color changes than hens will in all the above colors,Since the adult B/S hen is mostly white when an adult they will not change color much Both males and females has the rusty colored outer flight feathers in the above colors.So to distinguish b/s males in these colors you must look on the back and covert wing feathers gaining more pigment as they get older.At 3-4 weeks of age you would notice a big diffrence between a future hen and a future male b/s pattern.
BUT,in BSSP chicks,only adult hens has this rusty colored outer flight feather color,,NOT THE MALES,so it only makes sense that BSSP peachicks showing a change in these outer flight feathers would become hens,,since my adult BSSP males outer flight feathers are all white with maybe a solid black feather in the mix only.I have 2 pied males,and neither has rust color anywhere on them.This is how I hope I am correct on sexing my bssp chicks.And I'm hoping that from what I can see in your pics provides reasons for saying they will become hens.I've posted some pics of b/s males vs.b/s hens both the same age and some at 3 wks of age in previous threads.Locate those and see the marked diffrence in much more pigment in the future males and how little change is noted in the future hens.

 

[peafowlmom]

1st


2nd chick


3rd




Aug. 27th

 

[peafowlmom]

Aug. 29th I do not know which birds are which. What





a genius!
2nd



3rd




So these are the same birds as the 27th but I don't know what order and finally, I have some from yesterday, hubby hooked me up! yay!

 

[peafowlmom]

September 1st pics. Oh yes I was just as smart, still don't kn

ow which is which.




2nd
3rd




So I hope this can be deciphered and put to use?
I will take pics tomorrow. Had an IB BS split hatch today. 2 more pipped and 1 idk yet. Wish me luck

 

[peafowlmom]

2 more peas hatched a little bit ago!!

 

[TerriLaChicks]

2 more peas hatched a little bit ago!!

Congratulations! Do you usually have hatches this late in the season? Mine have been done for about a month now.

 

[zazouse]

Congradulations.

Terrilachicks
The breeder i get my birds from still has peas laying and hatching.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Congradulations.

Terrilachicks
The breeder i get my birds from still has peas laying and hatching.

I wish mine were. I miss all the excitement! Altho having fun playing with the youngsters. They love being in the bigger pen -- so much room to run & fly & play. I need to get some updated pics - they are getting so big!