Silver pied is a pattern mutation not a split mutation from all i have read about they can not be split , they are a combination of the pied and white eyed gene working with the white gene
So if someone tries to sell you a dark colored peacock and tell you they are split to silver pied and you can get a silver pied from them ,walk away from that one if you are wanting silver .
This is one reason i have kept so many whites and pieds from my white hens and another reason i am purchasing IB silver pieds on my Florida trip so i will have pieds, white eyed, silvers, blues and whites pop up in my flocks so i may offer a wider variety without getting into colors like bronze ,cameo ,etc,etc, while i love all these beautiful colors they would not work in my flocks as i do not want to mix them in my flocks, i am trying to stay with IB variates only
The dark silver pied male is out of two silver pieds. He looks no different than any other dark pied male except he is white eye and has a few small white blotches on his body. I would not be able to tell he was dark silver pied or dark pied white eye if I did not know where he came from. The hen out of the SP x IB breeding looks like any other IB white eye hen that is split white. She is frosted and has white primaries. I would not know she carried SP from the way she looks.
