Inheritance of Silver Pied

[Bigcreekpeafowl]

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See, I continue to learn. I thought that you DID need 2 copies. Ugh...the information on websites is just not that accurate, I suppose. So Deerman...you're saying that if a peafowl has 1 copy of White-Eye, it shows the trait? Or is it like White and Pied, in that you see some white eyes, but not all eyes are white? I'm still thinking that the "loudest silver pied peafowl" will have two copies of White-Eye, and since that seems to be all the rage, then breeding birds with two copies will give that result. What does a bird with only 1 copy of the White-Eyed gene look like, compared to a bird with 2 copies? Do you have a pic of an IB split to White-Eyed, and another pic of an IB White-Eyed?

P.S. This is why I didn't learn about these genes before...and also, I prefer seeing the color rather than all the white feathers. But that's just crazy me.

I agree that with both parents carrying the white eye gene the more the white eye is expressed (or visable) in the offspring. We like white eye in our peafowl with colors such as bronze, charcoal, peach, cameo, spalding, BS all in white eye.
With just one parent carrying white eye not all the offspring visably carry white eye. The ones that do carry with only one parent carrying the gene often do not have as many white eye, and the hens do not have the noticeable frosty/marbling appearance, white throat latch (males and hens). .

The offspring of both parents carrying white eye the white eyes are mostly white, white throat latch often visable, hens frosty in appearance.

 

[Bigcreekpeafowl]

Silver pied and BS silver pied are useful in many breeders programs for introducing black shoulder and pied.
Yes they don't breed true, which throws off those "statistics."

But they are beautiful.

 

[Kedreeva]

Just throwing this out there for talk of white and pied genetics. The white and pied "colors" are a result of a condition called "Leucism", as opposed to an actual color mutation. It's what happens when pigment cells fail to migrate from the neural crest (thus variation in white patch placement amongst pieds and the inability to breed for specific white patterns, since the migration and failed migrations happen different each bird). A partially leucistic bird (where only some pigment cells fail to move) shows as pied (in peacocks, but also in many other birds), a totally leucistic bird (where no pigment cells move correctly) results in white. Some genes responsible have been identified (c-kit, mitf and ednrb) as ones which can cause leucism when mutated. White and pied also aren't limited to peafowl, as leucism can affect any animal- including humans!

As for what that means for silver pied... I don't know. But knowing more about leucism may help you figure some more of it out.