2 white peachicks out of Indian Blue parents

Well I had 7 peachicks hatch yesterday and there are 2 whites out of Indian Blue parents.  Is this normal?  I really would love to have pied, wish they were pied.

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They sure resemble turkey chicks at this age ? Maybe someday I'll get a few

I don't know anything about Pea Fowl but if they carry the recessive blue gene that chickens carry then it makes sence because when you breed blue to blue you can get 50% blue and 25% splash which hatches yellow and as they get older they get the splash marks on them . I am sure that I am wrong but just wanted to put it out there.

Dan Smith wrote:

I don't know anything about Pea Fowl but if they carry the recessive blue gene that chickens carry then it makes sence because when you breed blue to blue you can get 50% blue and 25% splash which hatches yellow and as they get older they get the splash marks on them . I am sure that I am wrong but just wanted to put it out there.

No Dan Indian Blue peafowl aren't the same as blue chickens.

prairie dog wrote:They sure resemble turkey chicks at this age ? Maybe someday I'll get a few

They do look like poults except they don't have the nub on their foreheads

That is so neat ! I love white peacocks!! Lou

they could be black shouldered blues too, mine always hatched pure yellow but the flights with them generally come in reddish. But its been years since I had peachicks.......

Congrats Val
Look good One day we will have them
its about time EH

Prairie Chick wrote:  I really would love to have pied, wish they were pied.

You could dye them!

Great idea Sue!  

One white peachick could be a sport, but with two cuties I'd guess both parents are carriers of recessive white.  

Schipperkesue wrote:

Prairie Chick wrote:  I really would love to have pied, wish they were pied.

You could dye them!

Instead of pied, you could have tie dyed!

boothcreek wrote:they could be black shouldered blues too, mine always hatched pure yellow but the flights with them generally come in reddish. But its been years since I had peachicks.......

Thanks boothcreek, I was looking for that kind of info  

Your Blues could also be the offspring of a pair of Pied's. When you breed pieds you get pied, white and dark pied. The dark pied looks identical to blues except for a few white feathers in their chest area and white flight feathers. Crossing dark pieds will result in blues 75% of the time and Whites 25% of the time. All will cary the pied gene.
If you cross the Whites with the dark pieds you will get 25% pied, 25% white and 50% dark pied

Thanks Iceman, I will keep my eyes open for some white feathers on these guys.

There are white feathers on a couple of the chicks
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