Peafowl 201: Further Genetics- Colors, Patterns, and More

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When the feathers of the neck are in scales form ... we can speak of Spalding .
Then comes the "spalding attitude" ... the bird has a completely different shape!The shape of the head has changed ... everything changes!
Spalding is the FUTURE of Pavo cristatus!

 
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.

Could you quote the resource or the authority that you got this information from? Thank you.
 
" spalding one day ... spalding everyday ! "
It is certain that th flock is very mixes !

By a male, if you can count the feathers of the neck, ... it's a spalding!
 
It's talked about in the book Peafowl Breeding and Management by Stromberg. It's a book that's a collection of articles. Not much good for care info but there's alot of history written down in it.
 
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?

Theoretically, if you had a pen of IB split white birds and a separate pen of Cameo black shoulder silver pied birds, and you hatched out a white chick from each pen, would the 2 white chicks be similar genetically? Or would one be carrying IB coloration and the other be carrying Cameo? I'm guessing the white chick from the second pen would be carrying black shoulder & pied genes, but is the Cameo lost when homozygous white genes occur?
 
I am wondering if this is seen very often?

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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.

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.
 
White is a pattern not a color, so the color remains just hidden by the pattern.

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.
Great explanation! Thank you! And it answers other questions about pied with white as well. Thx!!
 

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