Does split pied exist ?

Dany12

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What's pied ?
2 genes ... : one white and one pied .
When they say split Pied = split pattern Pied?
So only one gene pied = it's split pied .... Which gene? the white or the pied ?

IB peacock X IB peahen dark pied (2 genes Pied) = IB split pied ? ... that's the real split pied with no external mark ... no sign in the phenotype!

IB peacock X IB peahen pied = IB split pied + IB split white.
 
I can't tell if you're askng because you don't know or asking because you want to theorize, but all things being equal a split pied bird would carry 1 copy of the pied gene with no white gene, and that's certainly possible.

Again, all things being equal (meaning if there's not some funky genetics going on where birds can only transmit one or the other somehow, or something like that) if a blue bird was bred to a pied bird, like you said, you should get blue split pied and blue split white offspring (if indeed the pied parent is capable of giving either gene but not both or neither), and you'd really only know which by proving them out via breeding.

So yes, it should logically exist.
 

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