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I was told that the white flight feathers signified that the bird was white eyed. Now i'm really confused, this stuff is much harder than horse genetics. I miss Deerman.
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I definately love to reference his old posts. Each one is so helpful.Minx Thanks for sharing the old post by Deerman. By far one of the most knowledgable people that has been on this forum since it's existence. Brings back some great memories of him.
Not necessarily. Both split to white and dark pied can exhibit the same white primaries and throat patch. To truly identify which it is, a selective breeding must be done. Breeding one of these hens with a male that is white will show you whether it is dark pied or split to white. If dark pied, you will get 100% pied offspring, if split to white, you will get 50% white offspring and 50% split to white offspring. You would only have to hatch one egg to determine that with this particular breeding.So if I have a bird with white primaries and a throat patch it's a dark pied?