The "Peach" Peafowl bandwagon?

[deerman]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/546456/peach-peachick/10

check post think 19 pic of cameo next to peach

 

[Arbor]

Deerman, thats exactly what we've needed (again!) to show the difference using a photo (thanks DMfarms as well)

. I too have noticed how spalding influences a colour, and it will make a peach bird darker, but it will still be noticeably peach as opposed to cameo. Without the spalding influence, I have not seen any shades of cameo, they are one, or the other. However, it is very important that if you are looking for a particular colour, research, research, research will help you. I had a guy try and sell me a peach male, when in fact it was purple. As he had never seen one before (a purple one or peach one that is), he didnt know (or could have just been playing stupid). He was working with an indian blue male that was apparently split to peach. He only had cameo and purple hens, and bred this male to them. His offspring varied, but included peach hens, purple males and hens, cameo hens and blues. So, someone explain that to me?

The only other peafowl he had were a pair of greens and midnights.

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Arbor,,you and I seem very disciplined in what we are looking for,,I just wish I had the experience to know by just looking at a bird,,,that's why I'm only looking at 2 breeders to get Peach from,and if I must wait a year to get them,at least I know they will indeed be Peach.The care-less breeder that screwed up my Midnight B/S is one example of how now I am wiling to spend more to get correct birds,,and wait if I have to.

 

[deerman]

peach silver pied

 

[deerman]

peach white eye peacock

 

[6littlechickies]

peach white eye peacock

Awesome bird!

 

[Selgar]

I think after you see a few of them you will know the color,, Your not going to get peach just by breeding Cameo in my opinion, if enough crosseing is done one might show up .. the way to know will take some time, both are sex linked and a male peach breed to a cameo hen will make birds split to both colors then you just have to breed to see what is going to turn out. I would not get a cameo on the hopes of getting a peach hen, work with the male side not the female. and keep good records. connerhills

You get the peach with a purple male and cameo female.

 

[KsKingBee]

You get the peach with a purple male and cameo female.

Not exactly, it will take another generation or two.

 

[KsKingBee]

You get the peach with a purple male and cameo female.

When you breed a Purple cock with any color hen you get Purple hen chicks and split to Purple cock chicks. If you are using a Cameo hen then the cock chick is IB split to Purple and Cameo. It is when you breed the IB split Purple and Cameo to a Cameo or Purple hen you can get about 25% Peach hens if 'crossover' happens. Breed that Peach hen back to the father IB split Purple and Cameo to possibly get a Peach cock, again about a 25% possibility.

 

[Midnightman14]

The thing with peach is that every peach that is, was, and ever more shall be are spaldings in varying percentages. They had to be bred this way because they inherited cameo's weakness as well as its progressive white so the spalding blood gave it more vigor.

Unfortunately because peach and cameo are so similar most people just opted for the cheaper cameo rather than pay exorbitant prices for another brownish bird. The result has been that peach has been hit especially hard with genetic issues because very few people put the time in and the push to breed them in every "variety" under the sun further shrinks the gene pool. Nowadays vigor in peach is often poor and males can be sterile or have issues like the spalding peach sold at mt hope awhile back. This is exacerbated by its sex linked nature as well. There are good peaches out there but I don't recommend buying unless you can get pictures of the birds you're buying or can go pick them out yourself.