As I say, it is difficult to 'wash' these Muticus genes traces ... several generations ... so impossible!
When we give a name color of a mutation we speak first of the neck. The color is in fact English Green ... but it's called Bronze!
This peacock is a IB color Bronze with a small defect on the wings that comes from an ancestor Pavo muticus.
The dark patches on shoulders may appear in all colors if the birds are not pure.
Here is the barred wings ... on a wild peacock of India ... or on blue domestic peacock.
No big spots of color!
Your is like that :
Your peacock has spots of color on the wings that proves that in these ancestors there was crossing with green peacocks or with spalding. It is like...
If it was the sign of BS split ....
why only on the males ??
I want to see a picture of a female blue split BS ... be a gray bird with brown pink spots on the wings!:eek:
1 - IB with very small level spalding ! it's not a blue split BS! By the split BS (one gene BS) there is no outside sign of the BS mutation!
2 - Blue peahen with some spalding (colored belly).
3 - young male IB (2018).
4 - peahen Blue with some spalding (colored belly).
5 - peahen Blue BS.
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