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Well I guess I am just unlucky when it comes to pieds then.
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My birds like to trick me and make me think I have a pied...

This shows a peachick I got once and I thought it would be a pied but when she grew up she was just a Dark pied. She had a white sister and a split to white sister.
 
MinxFox said:
Well I guess I am just unlucky when it comes to pieds then.
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My birds like to trick me and make me think I have a pied...

This shows a peachick I got once and I thought it would be a pied but when she grew up she was just a Dark pied. She had a white sister and a split to white sister.
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Do you still have this Hen? And do you know who her parents are?
 
MinxFox said:
It is a pied? I have gotten chicks that look like that and I got all excited thinking I finally hatched out a pied, but they always ended up being a split to white or split to pied and not a pied. I think pied peachicks have a ton more white on them but that is just what I have experienced and I haven't hatched a ton of split to whites and I haven't hatched any pieds before sadly.
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Well, I'm not 100% sure it's Pied because I do not know the exact genetic backgrounds of the parent birds (they are all phenotypically IBs, with no White showing at all, but are obviously carrying some very well hidden genes). But I consider this little chick Pied because of how much white it has on it. I hatched 5 chicks that looked very similar to him last season, and I consider them to be Pieds as well (pics below). But I'm probably wrong lol, I am still wrapping my head around how the Pied and White genes work in Peas... which is completely different than how they work in Guineas (I have bred Pied Guineas for years).

Does a split to White or split to Pied, or even a Dark Pied Peachick have this much White on the wings? (This is the little guy in question, from my previous pic).




There's also a faint stripe of White down the middle of the back on this chick that the other 3 don't have...

And then there's a lighter colored spot on the back of the head... (which I have seen on all 5 of last season's chicks that I consider to be Pieds)


Here are a couple Peacocks I hatched last season (pics taken a month or so ago)...

(Bird on left is the same bird as in the above pic)

And heres a couple of the Hens from last season (I was told they appear to be carrying 1 copy of White Eye)...



So are these Peas considered Pieds, or are they considered to be either split to Whites, or split to Pieds, or Dark Pieds?

Not knowing the exact genetic backgrounds on my adults is driving me nutty (nuttier), lol.
 
PeepsCA said:
MinxFox said:
It is a pied? I have gotten chicks that look like that and I got all excited thinking I finally hatched out a pied, but they always ended up being a split to white or split to pied and not a pied. I think pied peachicks have a ton more white on them but that is just what I have experienced and I haven't hatched a ton of split to whites and I haven't hatched any pieds before sadly.
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[COLOR=0000FF]Well, I'm not 100% sure it's Pied because I do not know the exact genetic backgrounds of the parent birds (they are all phenotypically IBs, with no White showing at all, but are obviously carrying some very well hidden genes). But I[/COLOR] [COLOR=0000FF]consider this little chick Pied because of how much white it has on it. I hatched 5 chicks that looked very similar to him last season, and I consider them to be Pieds as well (pics below). But I'm probably wrong lol, I am still wrapping my head around how the Pied and White genes work in Peas... which is completely different than how they work in Guineas (I have bred Pied Guineas for years).[/COLOR] [COLOR=0000FF]Does a split to White or split to Pied, or even a Dark Pied Peachick have this much White on the wings? (This is the little guy in question, from my previous pic).[/COLOR] [COLOR=B42000][COLOR=0000FF] [/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=B42000][COLOR=0000FF] [/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=0000FF]There's also a faint stripe of White down the middle of the back on this chick that the other 3 don't have...[/COLOR] [COLOR=0000FF] [/COLOR] [COLOR=0000FF]And then there's a lighter colored spot on the back of the head... (which I have seen on all 5 of last season's chicks that I consider to be Pieds)[/COLOR] [COLOR=0000FF]Here are a couple Peacocks I hatched last season (pics taken a month or so ago)... [/COLOR] [COLOR=0000FF](Bird on left is the same bird as in the above pic)[/COLOR] [COLOR=0000FF]And heres a couple of the Hens from last season (I was told they appear to be carrying 1 copy of White Eye)...[/COLOR] [COLOR=B42000] [/COLOR] [COLOR=0000FF]So are these Peas considered Pieds, or are they considered to be either split to Whites, or split to Pieds, or Dark Pieds?[/COLOR] [COLOR=0000FF]Not knowing the exact genetic backgrounds on my adults is driving me nutty (nuttier), lol.[/COLOR]
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I am a complete novice when it comes to color, but I think they look like pieds. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought a dark pied's white and split to white's white was restricted to the primary flight feathers and throat. -Kathy
 
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Those older birds look like pieds. As for the chicks I have no idea I guess...All I can say is when they are little the white looks more pronounced because they are small, but as they get bigger they don't show much white. The white of course on dark pieds and split to whites will be in the flight feathers and the primaries, but Peep who I think is a split to white does have a dot of white under his wing near his back and the white dot is on the fuzzy feathers. You can only see it when he lowers his wing to preen.

The peachick I showed a photo of came from an India Blue pied peacock:


And my Blackshoulder peahen from the zoo (although I sometimes wonder if she stole my pied peahen's eggs):


Then when that chick grew up, this is what she looked like (I no longer have her she was killed on the nest):




 

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