I bought 5 peafowl eggs from an elderly man here recently. (6 dollars a piece which was a huge bargain if you've ever bought any!) today is day 28 and my first one hatched.. I was expecting the brown chicks because I just figured the parents were India Blues but the chick is pure yellow. Does anyone know that type of peafowl I may have?
I really hope so!! My son is wanting a white really bad. I have these 5 and then a set of 3 "surprise" eggs that will hatch in a few weeks. I really just wanted one white out of all of them.
It could be a black shoulder. The males will look similar to the India Blue and the females are white with a little color. They are beautiful!!
Whites start out white, Black Shoulder is more yellowish and the wing feathers at the base under the wing will have a purplish color. Within a week the color on the wings of a BS will start showing.
See there ... the pictures !https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/my-peacock-experiment.1178271/ One is white ( yellow and white ) and the other is Blue blacks shoulder ( yellow and pink )!
Dany, have been told by breeder that chick most likely BS bronze as those got mixed in with his white pea chicks... we'll see... it's like Christmas where you have to wait to see what you got..!
