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Breed to a strongly marked pied bird or a white bird, if you get white chicks, he is carrying a white gene ;-) Visually, you can look for white feathers & throat latch, but I don't think you can tell whether this are from white or pied...Or maybe even from the we?

with his strong pied patterning, I would have assumed he carried one pied gene, one white gene, but I will defer to the experts

@AugeredIn , that was my first reaction also, when I examined @KsKingBee 's photo last evening. But the more I thought about it, the more questions I had about that explanation. I've already written about the little splashes in the middle of the white eyes... I had heard the same things as...

Phew, what a relief to see that he has at least SOME little white blotches on those train feathers, you were starting to get me worried Those little spots of white look a lot like the one from Zaz's photo. I also see that the bird itself is very spotty pied, with the white in polka dots and...

I was also under the impression that splashes of white in the ocelli, rather than a full white eye could mean partial WE or just a single WE gene... and thought I had seen photos where folks said that was what it was. No clue if they actually knew, or if there's been a whole lot of assuming...

Here are some very poor quality feather pix... old, faded, stained and in bad, yellow lighting that makes the colored part look much more copper/brown/red than the actual color of dirty, sun-burned opal... but it's all I have at the moment Since this is from a silver pied, it is presumably a...

Well he's clearly better off at your place now. P.S. don't tell @DylansMom that you are going to have nice weather.... It sounds like some folks are going to get a blizzard

Interesting... did you happen to take a photo of his current condition? Also, does he already have his whole train, or is it still coming in? That train looks weird to me somehow... what is the silvery looking stuff in the middle? Are there weird colors out on the ends of the feathers? It...

@KsKingBee , can you tell us what pairings you have (or had) planned for him? Do you have any photos from last year when you bought him? I am thinking that changes in food and even worming (remember the safeguard thread) could affect it, if there were only a very few to start with. I am...

I have always heard that white eye birds can have variable amounts of white eye feathers from year to year. The amount of dappling in a horse's coat can vary from year to year also. These are not totally simple processes, as much as we would like them to be simple.

Well if he had white eyes in a previous year, the genetics are still there ;-)