Indian Blue Black Shoulder 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 blackshoulder AND pied pattern mutations (wild type color, blackshoulder pattern, pied pattern).
PATTERN DESCRIPTION:
Blackshoulder pied is a colored bird with solid color replacing the barred color on the wing for males, and white patches on the body. 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. Depending on the distribution of white, their tails may be paler or have speckling compared to a normal blackshoulder hen.
Blackshoulder birds of all colors are born looking nearly white, with very pale tan flight feathers, but in blackshoulder pied, sometimes the tan flights can be obscured by white flights. 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 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), and the genes which comprise it travel independently of the blackshoulder gene. Please see the individual entries for blackshoulder and pied 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.
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 pattern mutations (wild type color, blackshoulder pattern, pied pattern).
PATTERN DESCRIPTION:
Blackshoulder pied is a colored bird with solid color replacing the barred color on the wing for males, and white patches on the body. 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. Depending on the distribution of white, their tails may be paler or have speckling compared to a normal blackshoulder hen.
Blackshoulder birds of all colors are born looking nearly white, with very pale tan flight feathers, but in blackshoulder pied, sometimes the tan flights can be obscured by white flights. 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 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), and the genes which comprise it travel independently of the blackshoulder gene. Please see the individual entries for blackshoulder and pied 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.
