? On Colors Breeding

If you paid for an India Blue with blackshoulder pattern, and your bird is blue with a solid wing color, then you got what you paid for. It may be split to other things, but you did get the bird you wanted. The Blue/black/green I put there is just how I described the iridescent solid wing color of a typical blackshoulder of the wild type color (IB). Solid wing in other colors (like opal) will be another color (opal would be silvery, not black). Blackshoulder is actually a somewhat outdated term people are still using because it's the understood term for solid wing, when in fact not all black shoulders... actually have black shoulders haha

In peafowl, the color variations are not different species. All the colors (excluding Java and hybrids with Java- called spaldings) are India Blue. Since it takes a pair of the mutated color genes to make a color (excluding sex linked colors), any color bred to any different will produce blue split to the colors, since they're all india blues. In chickens, the colors are determined differently and are considered more like different breeds, where a mixing of colors would produce more of a mutt than anything else.
 

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