Y'all still think it's white vs BS?

[msheets]

I still haven't noticed any coloring to its wings yet & it's around 6 weeks old. The breeder said he hatched 3 more just like it from his IB/BS pair, he still thinks they're all BS but it literally has no tinted feathers. The IB chick I have is from the same pairing.

 

[new 2 pfowl]

That cutie is definitely not a IBBS, and your breeder's IBBS parents clearly have some other hidden stuff happening!

This is our IBBS girl at 4 weeks:

 

[casportpony]

I am no expert, but I would say white. Question for the experts (or anyone, lol), can white mask BS?

-Kathy

 

[AugeredIn]

White masks everything including blackshoulder. It is white. Cant tell if BS.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Definitely a white!

 

[msheets]

Well it's confusing to me because if you have an Indian blue and a black shoulder pair that are both split to white, what are the chances you would have so many white chicks to hatch? I thought it would be 25% white?

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Well it's confusing to me because if you have an Indian blue and a black shoulder pair that are both split to white, what are the chances you would have so many white chicks to hatch? I thought it would be 25% white?

Yes its 25%, but this percentage will only become more clear when hatching many chicks, when hatching just a few this rule may get exceptions sometimes.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Last year i got 3 opal BS chicks and 3 regular opal chicks from opal split BS pair.

 

[casportpony]

Well it's confusing to me because if you have an Indian blue and a black shoulder pair that are both split to white, what are the chances you would have so many white chicks to hatch? I thought it would be 25% white?

@kuntrygirl , hatched a bunch of whites from her IB split to white pair last season.

-Kathy

 

[Arbor]

A Punnett square gives the general odds, the more you hatch, the closer those odds are to the square. I've got a trio of IB split BS split bronze. Odds are I'd get 25% each of bronze or BS, but so far of three chicks, one BS, one bronze and one IB. It's only 1:32 that I'd even get bronze BS, but maybe my BS will turn out to be a bronze, defying all odds