Dark Pied is a variety!???

MinxFox

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Okay well on DeviantART (the art website I am on) a person contacted me asking me about the peafowl variety chart I did. I learned that they were the ones who shared it on facebook. They told me I was missing dark pied, and I told them that it was just considered a type of split bird. Then they went on to tell me how it is a variety and told me about the genetics, and linked me to a genetics page I already know about. Guys, tell me I am not an idiot, dark pied is not really considered a variety am I right?
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If I was correct and it is not a variety, I am guessing they got confused because genetics pages mention results that you get when breeding dark pieds, so I guess they assumed it was just a variety?
 
MinxFox, "dark" pied is the terminology currently used for birds believed to be carrying 2 pied genes rather than one pied together with one white gene.
Pied of any sort is a pattern.
It is the combination of color and pattern that is called "variety"
What pages did they send you to?
Also, look at the post about leucistic genes I put up earlier. Pied is a leucistic gene. Good luck!
 
Dark pied genotype is like Garden Peas says ... 2 Pied gènes.
But Dark pied for commun people is perhaps a phenotype like your bird Minxfox :



A pied peacock with almost no white feathers! .... a dark look !
 
Oh, and I forgot to mention...

NO, you are NOT an idiot
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In fact, you are very knowledgeable about peafowl, they should listen to you!
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