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Technically speaking there are no IB Cameos since the first birds of that color mutation were all outcrossed to birds of spalding blood. Cameos, Jades, mahogany, and most purples are colors that either first appeared on spalding birds or were outcrossed to spalding birds.
Does white cover other colors on peafowl? Like with chickens, dominant white can cover (or be silver split to gold) and the bird appears white. Does that happen w peas?
White is a pattern not a color, so the color remains just hidden by the pattern.
White is a pattern not a color, so the color remains just hidden by the pattern.
Great explanation! Thank you! And it answers other questions about pied with white as well. Thx!!To be technical, Phoreda is correct in that white masks the colors. White is actually not a color OR a pattern. It is a genetic condition called leucism where in pigment cells fail to migrate from the neural crest during development meaning pigment cannot be deposited onto the feathers.
That means, genetically, a white bird from a bs pied cameo pair is a bs cameo. It would not "carry" pied since pied is just partial leucism. However, a white bird from bs pied cameo parents bred to a bs dark pied cameo bird would produce 100% bs pied cameos again. A white bird from blue parents bred to the same bs dark pied cameo bird would only produce blue pieds split bs (and depending which bird is which, males that are split cameo). Not all white peas are created equal genetically.
That being said, any white bird bred to another white bird will always spit out 100% white kids, so in that respect it doesn't matter where they came from.