Dark Pied or Split to White?

[casportpony]

Question for you color experts...

I just noticed that two of my IB boys have small quarter sized patches of white under their wings. Of course they have white flights, and one has a white patch on it's throat, so what do the white patches under the wings mean?
@KsKingBee , @Midnightman14 , @barkerg , @WestKnollAmy , @AugeredIn, @Birdrain92

 

[Birdrain92]

Like in the wing pit or in the pretrain feathers on the side.

 

[casportpony]

Like in the wing pit or in the pretrain feathers on the side.

They are over the femur.

 

[Birdrain92]

Can you post a picture please? The only thing I can think of is a Pied bird but doesn't show much White on them. Not a true Dark Pied since Dark Pied requires two Pied alleles, but a true Pied but not much white.

 

[casportpony]

Both of these boys are from a solid IB male and a IB split to white hen.

 

[KsKingBee]

Then it came from the hen and is only split White or split Pied.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Then it came from the hen and is only split White or split Pied.

Yes, I agree.

 

[barkerg]

@Birdrain92 is correct a dark pied bird carries 2ea pied genes and are incapable of producing white birds. The only way to know for sure if its a DP is to either know the exact breeding info or wait until they are breeding age and then you breed the suspected bird to a white bird and you should receive all loud pied offspring. The term Dark Pied is incorrectly used to identify birds that are split pied or white and they show a little white in the flights, throat latches etc... i agree with @KsKingBee it is likely split to white or pied,.

Gerald Barker