I need some advice Please

[EyeKeyYou]

Every Dark pied I have owned looks like an India blue with maybe 1 or 2 white fight feathers. I think they are regular pieds.

 

[zazouse]

I also thought a dark pied only had a little white but was informed by our genetics expect that a dark pied only carries one pied gene where a regular pied only carries two, did not matter how much white they have.

 

[DylansMom]

I also thought a dark pied only had a little white but was informed by our genetics expect that a dark pied only carries one pied gene where a regular pied only carries two, did not matter how much white they have.

I think you might have that backwards? My understanding is that a dark pied carries 2 copies of pied and no white genes, a regular pied carries 1 copy of pied and 1 copy of white, and a split pied will carry 1 copy of pied and no white genes. At least I believe that is the case.

 

[EyeKeyYou]

From my experience this is correct. The true test comes from breeding a dark pied to a white which gives 100% pied offspring. I have 2 dark pied hens with a white peacock.I also have pied x we pied pens as well and I have never had a dark pied born with white on its back I have had them born with no white at all only way you would know they were from pied is with a white mating. So I assume the more likely path that these are just regular pied hens.

 

[AugeredIn]

My pied hen produced whites 2 years straight does that mean she is not a dark pied?

Yes, she would have to be truly pied (one pied gene & one white gene) to throw whites.

 

[zazouse]

I think you might have that backwards? My understanding is that a dark pied carries 2 copies of pied and no white genes, a regular pied carries 1 copy of pied and 1 copy of white, and a split pied will carry 1 copy of pied and no white genes. At least I believe that is the case.

why do i get so confused over such a simple thing

so the when i get pied chicks from a white hen does that make her split pied?

 

[MinxFox]

why do i get so confused over such a simple thing

so the when i get pied chicks from a white hen does that make her split pied?

I am starting to think that maybe even pied genetics are too much for me! I will try to answer this though from what I *think* I am understanding...

I don't think a white can be split to pied because a white has 2 copies of the white gene and a pied has 1 copy so I think it is impossible (if I read that correctly in the genetic topic), so if you get pied chicks from a white hen it means that the male she is mating with is pied or split pied.

This is why I do not like split to whites and dark pieds, but Peep is one of those things and I love him, so I just have to make due with his split to something. I will breed him to a white hen and just find out from that I guess.

 

[hairco]

Well i am getting a white cock sat because thats all i can find.Maybe next year i can fine a silver pied.