Help with sexing & type

[peachick]

lets see if I can show you the difference in a white eye chick..... as most of you know.... i take LOTS of photos LOL

The young hen in the middle of this photo is a white eyed bird. she has a grayish color in her feathering, as opposed to the hen on the left of her is much more brown.

here she is again, stretching her wing... generally white eyed chicks also have white flights..... you can see her color difference clearly in this pic..... shes more grey.

as an adult hen she will have the grey look to her feathers, PLUS a white frosting on the tips of some feathers.

 

[deerman]

Kat, those last to pic show the white eye for sure.
my trouble is with pic of small chicks of the other colors, like peach,charcoal,opal.

 

[peachick]

when thery are as young as this years chicks are its really hard to tell, unless you have something same age to compare with... that is not a white eye, and opal and charcoal are a grayish bird to start with.... so it wouldnt be easy. The last 2 photos I posted are of one of my hens about 3 years ago and she was probably 6-8 months old. now as an adult. that frosting on her back is gone, she has gotten darker, and I can hardley tell her from the rest of my IB hens.

a few years ago I bought my cameo pied white eye pair.... they are light colored birds anyway (like your peach) so I wouldnt have known they are white eye except now the male is getting his 3 year old train in and its quite obvious..... I cant wait to see him mature out this winter.

 

[deerman]

Yes my peach white eye peacock, was sold as a peach. He came from one of the top breeders in the US.

That peach is from a silver pied split peach and a peach hen, so odd are good she maybe w.e.

Have some peach spalding chicks, and the white eye stand out.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Hey Deerman,
How similar in color are young cameos to young peach chicks, about the age of the one you posted?
Reason I ask, is I have a "cameo" chick I hatched from bought eggs but it is way darker than my breeder age cameos I just got , actually looks just like your peach pic. I guess I need to get a pic of it and put on here for you to see, but it is that darker pinkish buff like yours, just wondering, sure would be cool to finally have one, well 3, 4, 5,...would be better!
See ya
Aubrey

 

[deerman]

Cameo, are a little darker than peach, Cameo,purple,and peach all three get lighter the more sun light they get. My guess you older cameo are lighter because of the sun.

Also spalding cameo and spalding peach are darker.

The pic is for sure peach split silver pied. Now your could be peach, as peach have come from cameo lines, if you are sure parent were cameo, odd its a cameo.

If you compare peach,cameo next to each other, the peach will be lighter.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Thanks,
I got ya. They came from eggs out of Thom Deans birds, He said they were all cameos and cameo white eyes so that's probley what it is then.
As for the breeders, they are definatley sun bleached at the moment, one pair was in a shaded pen where I got them from, and it's a night and day difference in the color on the 2 pairs from the sunny pen and the shaded pen pair.
Thanks for your input!
Aubrey

 

[deerman]

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Yes all three if they had been outside, funny to see now the hens have new feathers and the bleached out feather both.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Yep, These are the same way, kind of spotty and patchy with the new ones coming in!

 

[Kev]

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That is a beautiful peachick. Why don't you send it over to me for me to inspect..? Ha.

I don't know what to say, never even seen a peach in person & never worked with cameo. So I have no experience in white eyed on lighter colors.

In my purples, sometimes a chick has down or feathers just a shade lighter than other purple chicks. Like how a black shirt will be slightly lighter after being washed several times.. subtle but is there if you look close. Usually they prove to be white eyed.

I do notice a "lightening" on some of the wing feathers, but again I have no idea if this is a normal Peach thing or might be white eyed on a peach..

One last thought, if the normal Peach do not show a frosted look on their feathers.. and you have a known white eyed peach(especially a hen), look close in different angles and see if you see something that looks like a sugar frosting on it.