White chick hatched from India Blue Parents? Is this common

[lauraotr]

I just hatched 2 peachicks from my India Blue Peafowl....
One of the chicks is white...is this common?
Laura on Camano Island

 

[zazouse]

It is at my place, it means that one or both of your adult peas has a white parent.

 

[pedda munnangi]

I just hatched 2 peachicks from my India Blue Peafowl....
One of the chicks is white...is this common?
Laura on Camano Island

To get a white peachick from Indiablue looking parents, both the parents need to have a white gene meaning split to white.Most of the times the split peafowl show a couple of white flight feathers and a white throat patch also (not necessarily ), since white is co-dominant. . Also black shoulder peachicks are also born white or cream with a tiny tinge of yellow., upon close observation you will see light brown or light peach color on lower half of both wings.. In such a situation both the Indiablue parents need to be split to blackshoulder

 

[lauraotr]

And are white peafowl more frail than others?

 

[pedda munnangi]

No, not at all.I have raised several of them pure and in combinations with other colors and patterns in peafowl.

 

[lauraotr]

THank you!

 

[zazouse]

And are white peafowl more frail than others?

The hens get dirty looking when laying season hits at least mine did.