I have a chick with blue legs? Is that normal? UPDATE looking better

Knix6468

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8 Years
May 25, 2011
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In picture From Left to right just legs Opal, in the back Purple pied, on 2x4 blue legs was from an egg marked silver pied black shoulder purple,
then we have a silver pied looking at the camera, and one of our black shoulders India blue.

Our other India blue have brown legs, not blue.

Is this normal?
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One more picture of his back, What do you think his coloring will be, will he be a purple pied? purple black shoulder pied? what would I call him,, right now he is named Blue
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We have tentatively named the pied in the picture Dr Evil. because he has "evil eyebrows" right above his beak on each side.

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I think the legs are just turning grey. Like you know how most adult peafowl have grey legs except for maybe whites which have pink legs but I noticed this with my peachick...As they get older their legs slowly turn from pink to grey. At least to me the legs look grey.
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I had to go out and check the color of my purple blackshoulder from PBSSP, which is about 7 weeks old and a purple pied chick nearly a month old, plus a spauling pied chcik also a month old, and none have legs that are changing to a darker color yet.
I bred parrots many years ago & the cicks I raised would have legs that turn dark as they grew up, or have a lot of sunlight.
I am curious what others with more experience with peas will say!
 
Thanks for answering!! I looked my regular india blue chicks that are the same age, and their legs are darkening up too but they are a more greyer color than the "blue legs", but I noticed their toenails are
dark color too. I think why his lets look so weird is that Blue's toenails are PINK.

And these birds are in natural sunlight, they are in our greenhouse.

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Here he is the morning he hatched. on 7/6 so I guess he is a few days shy of 30 days old.
 
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As the chick is growing his legs are looking less and less odd . His toenails are now matching his legs. Sorry he wouldnt hold still for a picture.
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