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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: john2708 on August 17, 2012, 04:48:23 pm

Title: pekin batam id's needed
Post by: john2708 on August 17, 2012, 04:48:23 pm

hi i have been given 6 pekin bantams still young and just wonted some one with more experience of this breed to id them for so i know which colours they are so i can breed true to form

1: (http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j374/john2708/IMG_0645.jpg)

2:(http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j374/john2708/IMG_0646.jpg)

3:(http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j374/john2708/IMG_0647.jpg)

4:(http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j374/john2708/IMG_0648.jpg)

5:(http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j374/john2708/IMG_0649.jpg)

6:(http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j374/john2708/IMG_0650.jpg)

hope you can help

Title: Re: pekin batam id's needed
Post by: Sbom on August 17, 2012, 04:52:45 pm

Don't look like pure colours to me......non I've seen anyway. Someone else may know better though

Title: Re: pekin batam id's needed
Post by: in the hills on August 17, 2012, 05:16:14 pm

I thought the same.
Have you been told that they are pure colours?
I don't have experience of all the colours available and they are only young birds and may change as they get their adult plummage. One looks a bit like a Partridge Pekin but maybe not pure.
Maybe someone with more knowledge will come along soon.

Title: Re: pekin batam id's needed
Post by: john2708 on August 17, 2012, 05:40:06 pm

no i havnt been told they are pure they were given to me i was just intrested to see if they were pure colours thanks for the replys

Title: Re: pekin batam id's needed
Post by: SheepishSophie on August 17, 2012, 05:55:04 pm

4 and 2 look Partridge-esque but ours had a more definitive penciling at a much younger age than those. I tried to get the pictures but they're on instagram :( Personally, and I'm no expert, I'd say that none of them look... neat enough.. to be pure.

Title: Re: pekin batam id's needed
Post by: in the hills on August 17, 2012, 06:32:23 pm

Yes, pencilling more defined on mine too.


But ...... on a positive note ...... we have some mixed colour pekins who have been really good little layers. The mixed colour peeks tend to lay far more eggs than the pure colours and ours lay bigger eggs too. We have some really nice looking ones also.  ;D