Peahen turkey cross... Peakey?!!

[Beer can]

hey you know that is totally photo-shopped!

Nope! Found it online and it was on awesome real animal hybrids so it must be true, one of the most beautiful birds ever

 

[Dany12]

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The photo just before meeting Mrs. Photoshop!
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/43/32/67/4332677042aa9167bfbe521b9af7de11.jpg

 

[Dany12]

Here females turkey + one male Mexican turkey or Ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata).

There are no hybrids!

 

[BreanneRN]

Hybrids happen! Videos are way harder to photoshop, it can be done, but it would have to be done on a frame by frame basis, and probably would be very detectable unless someone was really good (like an animator) and spent a whole lot of time. But some people will remain unconvinced, probably even with DNA evidence... Like I say, you all decide for yourselves. And yes, Meleagris Ocellata is real, lives in the tropics, I would personally like to see what the DNA evidence is on that species, though if it has a hybridization event in it's history, it happened naturally and a long time ago. (kind of like the Neanderthal/homo sapien cross).

 

[BreanneRN]

Watching! I'd love to see if viable eggs could come from this! Can you candle peafowl eggs?

IS she/he a Peacock crossed with a chicken?

I think yes, you decide for yourself... there are 4 videos of Chickpea on You-tube, I think she has a following! With interspecies hybrids, the viable offspring is most likely to be female, things more often go wrong with the males during development, so they will arrest often in the egg. If they are viable, they will most likely be sterile. The female hybrids best hope for viable offspring would be back to a close relative, such as father/grandfather.

 

[KsKingBee]

Last I heard of Chickpea is that it died at about two or three years of age.

 

[Dany12]

Cross with guinea is well known :

But with turkey ... i still have a doubt !
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/a-turkey-a-pea-or-a-turkpea.937640/
These two photos .... for me it's an enigma!

 

[red horse ranch]

THEY CROSS WITH GUINEAS??? Now I know why my male guinea was always fighting with the peacock. He was trying to protect his girl. The peacock would follow them all over the pasture.
Now I'm wondering what will be hatching in the next two weeks.

 

[BreanneRN]

Last I heard of Chickpea is that it died at about two or three years of age.

Quite possible, hybrids are often not long lived, hybridization events often have the side effect of deleterious or non-working genes and that in turn can cause problems that can shorten their lives, cause reproductive problems, auto immune issues, etc. Not to say that that is what caused the demise of chickpea, who was pretty free range by the looks of it and with that long tail, possibly more susceptible to predators, but those videos live on! And it doesn't mean she didn't happen...

 

[The Phantom]

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Is that real????