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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 blackshoulder AND pied AND white-eye pattern mutations (wild type color, blackshoulder pattern, pied pattern, and white-eye pattern), in the pied white-eye phenotype.
PATTERN DESCRIPTION:
Blackshoulder pied white eye is a colored bird with solid color replacing the barred color on the wing for males, white patches over the body, and white patches covering the eye markings of the eye feathers in the male's train. Females will be mostly white, with color flecked over their main body, a rust band around their necks, rusty color on top of their heads, and a solid-color tail. Blue blackshoulder hens have a black tail and dark to black flecking. Blackshoulder pied white-eye hens may be paler than normal blackshoulder, have white patches over their body, and may have white tips on their flecked feathers. Both sexes usually have white flight feathers.
Blackshoulder birds of all colors are born looking nearly white, with very pale tan flight feathers, but pied birds often have a white flight feather, which can obscure the tan. As the birds mature, speckling and marbling appears on the new feathers of each molt. By around 3 months of age, males will begin to develop solid saddle feathers with paler "arrows" in the center of each feather. Females will begin to speckle out. It is easiest to tell a blackshoulder pied WE hen from a split or dark pied hen at a young age, when they have more color so the white shows up in starker contrast.
GENETICS:
Blackshoulder is a single-expression autosomal recessive gene for pattern. Pied is a combination of two incomplete dominant genes (white + pied). White-eye is a single-expression autosomal incomplete dominant gene for pattern. Pied and white-eye genes travel independently of the blackshoulder gene and each other. Please see the individual entries for blackshoulder and white-eye for more information on the individual morphs.
NOTES:
Blackshoulder is a bit of a misnomer, as the gene only causes a black shoulder in a wild type bird. In truth, it causes a solid wing instead of a barred wing pattern, leading some to refer to this as "solid wing." Blackshoulder and solid wing are the same mutation by different names, just as "barred wing" and "wild wing" both refer to the wild type wing pattern.
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 blackshoulder AND pied AND white-eye pattern mutations (wild type color, blackshoulder pattern, pied pattern, and white-eye pattern), in the pied white-eye phenotype.
PATTERN DESCRIPTION:
Blackshoulder pied white eye is a colored bird with solid color replacing the barred color on the wing for males, white patches over the body, and white patches covering the eye markings of the eye feathers in the male's train. Females will be mostly white, with color flecked over their main body, a rust band around their necks, rusty color on top of their heads, and a solid-color tail. Blue blackshoulder hens have a black tail and dark to black flecking. Blackshoulder pied white-eye hens may be paler than normal blackshoulder, have white patches over their body, and may have white tips on their flecked feathers. Both sexes usually have white flight feathers.
Blackshoulder birds of all colors are born looking nearly white, with very pale tan flight feathers, but pied birds often have a white flight feather, which can obscure the tan. As the birds mature, speckling and marbling appears on the new feathers of each molt. By around 3 months of age, males will begin to develop solid saddle feathers with paler "arrows" in the center of each feather. Females will begin to speckle out. It is easiest to tell a blackshoulder pied WE hen from a split or dark pied hen at a young age, when they have more color so the white shows up in starker contrast.
GENETICS:
Blackshoulder is a single-expression autosomal recessive gene for pattern. Pied is a combination of two incomplete dominant genes (white + pied). White-eye is a single-expression autosomal incomplete dominant gene for pattern. Pied and white-eye genes travel independently of the blackshoulder gene and each other. Please see the individual entries for blackshoulder and white-eye for more information on the individual morphs.
NOTES:
Blackshoulder is a bit of a misnomer, as the gene only causes a black shoulder in a wild type bird. In truth, it causes a solid wing instead of a barred wing pattern, leading some to refer to this as "solid wing." Blackshoulder and solid wing are the same mutation by different names, just as "barred wing" and "wild wing" both refer to the wild type wing pattern.
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.
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