Indian Blue Silver Pied
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COLOR:
Blue is the natural, unmutated color of the Indian peafowl, also known as the wild type (aka the type found in the wild).
CONTENTS:
This page contains photos of blues with the pied AND white eye pattern mutations (wild type color, pied pattern, white eye pattern), in the silver pied phenotype.
PATTERN DESCRIPTION
Silver pied morph looks like a white bird with random patches of wild type color all over the body and including white patches covering the eye markings on the eye feathers in the train. The saddle feathers of a silver pied will be paler and "frosted" or "silvered" looking.
GENETICS:
Silver pied is an autosomal, dual-expression color made from pied (1 white gene + 1 pied gene) + white-eye. Please see the individual entries for pied and white eye for more information on the individual morphs.
NOTES:
Despite that both are genetically "pied + white eye", the main difference between pied white eye and silver pied morphs is whether or not the saddle is frosted. A pied-looking bird with a normal saddle is pied white eye, a pied-looking bird with a frosted/silvered saddle is a silver pied. Silver pied also usually have 80%+ white coverage, but not always, and normal pied can have 80% or less coverage, but can have more, so this is not a very good measure to go by.
Blue is the natural, unmutated color of the Indian peafowl, also known as the wild type (aka the type found in the wild).
CONTENTS:
This page contains photos of blues with the pied AND white eye pattern mutations (wild type color, pied pattern, white eye pattern), in the silver pied phenotype.
PATTERN DESCRIPTION
Silver pied morph looks like a white bird with random patches of wild type color all over the body and including white patches covering the eye markings on the eye feathers in the train. The saddle feathers of a silver pied will be paler and "frosted" or "silvered" looking.
GENETICS:
Silver pied is an autosomal, dual-expression color made from pied (1 white gene + 1 pied gene) + white-eye. Please see the individual entries for pied and white eye for more information on the individual morphs.
NOTES:
Despite that both are genetically "pied + white eye", the main difference between pied white eye and silver pied morphs is whether or not the saddle is frosted. A pied-looking bird with a normal saddle is pied white eye, a pied-looking bird with a frosted/silvered saddle is a silver pied. Silver pied also usually have 80%+ white coverage, but not always, and normal pied can have 80% or less coverage, but can have more, so this is not a very good measure to go by.
