There were white hens also homozygous for white eye with both silver pied with those males too. Ups the odds. I know those white hens were homozygous white eyed as I bred them myself out of white eyed matings. Also have bred them previously and more recently with other colors such as blue and bronze, all chicks came out white eyed, no normal blue birds resulted. Plus all colored birds from the hens & silver pied males were also white eyed.
Here were the set ups:
First silver pied male in pen with 2 White hens(homozygous for white eye) and 2 White eyed split white hens.
Result of 2 seasons: Lots of white chicks. Some colored birds with white just on flights(split birds). Many pied marked birds.. majority of those had white only on wings and up on the face/upper neck. Minority of the pied marked birds had any amount of white on back. Zero silver pied. This is more than 50 chicks total, easily. Even with real low odds.. should have had at least one silver pied bird.. Notice, I got pied marked birds.. just none of them were silver pied, not even close to it.
Second silver pied male in pen with 4 whites(homozygous white eyed) and one white eyed split white.
Similar results.. lots of white chicks.. colored birds again came out mostly minimal marked pied. Zero silver pied.. more than 50 chicks total.
This is two different silver pied males, 6 of the hens were White, over several seasons. minimum of 100 chicks total from both males. Not one silver pied. reminder- did get pied marked birds, just not silver pied.
When the pied marked daughters from the first silver pied male were put in with this second male, got white, minimal pied and a few silver pied(finally).
Why did I get them out of those daughters and none from the other hens? That's my question.. white eyed was present in all hens.. several of the hens were white.. so, what is it?
*I forgot to add, that the pied offspring also were white eyed(all colored chicks showed white eyed characteristics). They still were far from silver pied. So if the white eye is the magic stuff, how come white eyed pied?