- Mar 23, 2014
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I have a pair of opal white eyed pea's with an extra purple split to pied cock (as in, he carries one pied gene and no white gene, his father was dark pied) penned together. I got one loud or silver pied chick that is either India blue or purple. This isn't that surprising, apparently one or both of the opals are split to white. They do have a lot of white on them (throat, lots of flight feathers). I also have a solid purple (obviously male) chick. Also not surprising.
Their other two chicks are throwing me though. They hatched solid white. All of the feathers were white. But now, at 2 and 3 weeks old, they are getting some color. One only has a small amount, just some pale grey in the tail and on part of one wing. The other has the same pale grey in it's tail, and it almost looks like one whole wing is close to black shoulder color, while the other is solid white. I suppose it is possible that the parents are split to black shoulder, that chick could be black shoulder pied? I've never really been interested in whites before, so I've never had them. Is a small amount of colored feathers normal?
I will try to get pictures posted very soon. Thanks.
Their other two chicks are throwing me though. They hatched solid white. All of the feathers were white. But now, at 2 and 3 weeks old, they are getting some color. One only has a small amount, just some pale grey in the tail and on part of one wing. The other has the same pale grey in it's tail, and it almost looks like one whole wing is close to black shoulder color, while the other is solid white. I suppose it is possible that the parents are split to black shoulder, that chick could be black shoulder pied? I've never really been interested in whites before, so I've never had them. Is a small amount of colored feathers normal?
I will try to get pictures posted very soon. Thanks.