Golden Laced and Buff Polish

Alhamdulillah,

Setahun mencari baka polish yang masih kurang di Malaysia iaitu Golden Laced Polish dan Buff Laced Polish, kali ni dapat juga membeli dari sahabat seminat dari Terengganu.

White Spalding Peafowl

White Spalding juga merak mutasi yang dihasilkan melalui kaedah hybrid. Masih tiada atau tidak byk peminat di Malaysia yang membawa masuk apatah lagi membiakkan jenis ini. Antara faktornya, tidak ramai peminat burung yang meminati pembiakan merak kerana memakan masa yang agak lama. Buat masa ni, sepasang sahaja yang dibawa masuk ke ladang dengan harapan dapat membiakkan jenis ini dalam tempoh 4-5 tahun lagi. Berbeza dengan white peafowl biasa kerana baka adalah hybrid dari Java Green. Bentuk badan yang menyerupai Java Green, tinggi, tegap dan mempunyai crest yang tegak sama seperti Java Green. Sedikit maklumat disediakan berkaitan dengan White Spalding Peafowl.

Sepasang White Spalding yang telahpun berada di ladang 2 bulan yang lalu

Ini adalah contoh White Spalding Jantan yang telah matang. Gambar diambil dari Texaspeafowl

Sedikit maklumat yang berkaitan

• White Spaldings have the taller and thinner appearance of the green, as well as yellow facial skin, combined with the pure white coloration of the white mutation.
• Type of mutation: The white spalding is a hybrid combined with the white color gene.
• Peacock Coloration: Males are, as their name implies, completely white. Faint eyespots can be distinguished in the train by a thin layer of off white that surrounds the ocelli. The actual seeing eyes of the birds are blue. These birds are taller and thinner than India Blue whites, and the crest is taller and tighter. A pronounced yellow loral patch is also visible.
• Peahen Coloration: Hens are completely white, with blue eyes, a spalding type body structure, tight bunched crown, and yellow patch of facial skin.
• Peachick Coloration: When first hatched, the chick is yellow in color with white wings and looks very similar to India Blue white chicks, although with a slightly different body structure. White chicks are hard to sex until about two years of age when the male will developed wispy tail coverts, because the bird does not change color much in its lifetime, and the male and female look so similar. Chicks born at the same time can sometimes be sexed by the length of their legs. Males often have longer legs than the females.
• Origin: White Spaldings were created by breeding the white color gene into the spalding hybrid.
• Do they breed true?: No, because of the spalding aspect the birds will not breed true, however the white color trait will.

(souce: http://peacockgirl.tripod.com/Peafowl_Variet/White_Spaldx.html)

Cameo Peafowl

Memperkenalkan kepada peminat2 unggas satu lagi spesis merak yang baru dimiliki iaitu Cameo Peafowl. Diimport dari United States ekoran masih tidak ada lagi mutasi ini dibiak di Malaysia. Disertakan beberapa keping gambar untuk tatapan saudara2 dan sedikit informasi berkaitan Cameo Peafowl. Gambar diambil adalah asli dari ladang. Sorry sbb tak berapa cantik - ambil guna hp je dan keadaan merak juga masih muda dan belum mengeluarkan bulu yang cantik.

Ini adalah contoh gambar Cameo Peafowl yang diambil dari website texaspeafowl.com.

Female 1

Female 2

Male

Male

Informasi berkenaan Cameo Peafowl

• Type of mutation: Cameo is a color mutation, and can also be combined with spaldings to create Cameo Spaldings.
• Peacock Coloration: At the beginning of the season, males are dark brown in color, but by the time they begin to molt the sun has bleached them to a much lighter "coffee milk color." The neck remains a darker color than the rest of the body the entire year, and the train is darker in color than the wings, which exhibit brown and tan barring. The ocelli on the train have varying shades of brown, but no iridescence.
• Peahen Coloration: Females are creamy brown and lighter than the males in color. Their heads and neck are a darker rust, and the color fades on the breast and back of the bird.
• Peachick Coloration: Chicks look much like those of the India Blue, but are lighter in color, and are a creamy brown.
• Origin: Cameo was the first color mutation discovered besides the white, and has been around for awhile. It was originally called the silver dun. Cameos originated in Maine in the 1960s, and were first bred by Oscar Mulloy. Sherman Cram, Dennis Cook, and Norman Waycott helped perfect the mutation.
• Do they breed true?: Yes, cameo x cameo will produce 100% cameo chicks. However, like the purple, cameo is a sex linked mutation. This means that when a cameo cock is bred to any other type of hen, all the female offspring will be cameo and the males offspring India Blue split to cameo and the hen's color. Cameo hens cannot produce cameo offspring when bred to other types of males, only offspring split to cameo. Since the mutation has been along for many years, there is not a shortage of males like in the purples.

Source: http://peacockgirl.tripod.com/Peafowl_Variet/Cameox.html