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It appeared separate from being split white, crosses of the originial white eyed with India Blue also produced the faded look, some included birds without any white feathers(in other words, not split white). Kept mostly only the females & sold majority of males before they were 2 yrs old, so could not really comment on average look of adult males.. the adult females from this grew up to have a silvery/sugar frosted look on their bodies. I don't recall if there was any visual sexual difference in the down lightness.. would have been interesting idea to follow up on, unfortunately have stopped this project- had to reduce my flock.
Crosses of silver pied to IB produced the very yellow and light feathered chicks- patterned pieds are genetically half white half pied, so the chicks came 50/50 for split white or split pied(no white in flights or chin). If one looked closely could see some chicks were slightly more yellow or less yellow.. did not keep track to see if it had anything to do with sex(I would doubt it though, but still an interesting idea). I didn't keep any males past one year, kept several females to breeder age, those did have subtle differences from IB and didn't look like the original white eyeds. Instead of an obvious silvery grey color with sugar frosted look the originals had, they mostly had a slightly lighter tan color to their bodies, some had the sugar frosting look but not that strong or were localized(usually on wings). A few hens had some grey coloring mixed in with this lighter tan color, usually on the wings.
Most birds from either crosses tended not to have that many random white feathers on the body, there were exceptions, with a very few having quite a good amount. This reminds me, the birds from silver pied crossed to white eye mostly did not have many random white feathers.. I have to go with females only for this observation- could not tell if the males would have many or few white eyes in their mature trains. Would have liked to keep some males, but due to limited room was not able to keep surplus males long enough for them to fully mature.
Good question as what to call it- is it leucism or?? Chicks from silver pied crosses would fit the bill but while the adults usually were discernible from 'pure' IB, they were not that screamingly different though... UPA(united peafowl assoc.) considers white eyed as one of the pattern mutations, along black shoulder and pied.
BTW interestingly white eyed appears possibly recessive in spaldings. Crosses produce birds that largely or totally look normal. I was confused by this enough to keep a male for breeding.. did a sibling F1 mating, this produced results across the spectrum of normal looking birds, birds with variable slightly visible white eye traits, and a few with 'complete' expression of white eyed(lots of silvery grey coloring on body along heavy sugar frosted look- suspect those are the homozygous ones but what the heck is going on with the others showing this trait much weaker...). I bred some of them with a pure green, the chicks were all normal in color- no evidence of white eyed traits.
