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

[Dany12]

"The 2 silver pied birds above were fathered by the Pied male below." .... and the mother was ????
This peacock has no silver feather but the brown feathers are with dilued color .... silvering effect ?

 

[KsKingBee]

Just as a thought: The silvering my be a different genetic entirely, not related to WE or "Silver" Pied, that just cropped up in mutation with Silver Pied birds. Or it may be a dilute and related to the genetic that gives you all that white%

Can you get that much white on a regular Pied to Pied breeding? Or only when the WE is added? I am under the impression that SE have to carry WE.

An excerpt from the above mentioned article;

'Silver Pied is a combination of the Pied and the White-Eyed gene working together with the White gene.'

 

[DylansMom]

"The 2 silver pied birds above were fathered by the Pied male below." .... and the mother was ????
This peacock has no silver feather but the brown feathers are with dilued color .... silvering effect ?

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

You are not blind

 

[DylansMom]

Thanks for the confirmation!

 

[KsKingBee]

It is more obvious when I blow the pic up.

 

[Birdrain92]

I would say Silver Pied as well

 

[DylansMom]

It is more obvious when I blow the pic up.

I would say Silver Pied as well

 

[Garden Peas]

You know, one of the things this brings to mind is the question, "how many white eye genes does it take to make silver pied?"

If I am recalling correctly, white eye is a bit different from some of the other genes we deal with, in that there is some kind of dominant or incomplete dominant effect. As I understand it, when a bird has even one copy of the WE gene, it will show some white eyes in the train or other markings (such as the silvering), so it doesn't stay hidden like many of our other traits do when there's only a single copy. (The other gene that comes to mind is black shoulder -- some of our black shoulder splits sometimes show funny shoulder markings or coloring, even when it's a split rather than 2 copies of the gene.)

I've been wondering for awhile whether having one copy of WE (or perhaps one copy of a mutated WE, if that's correct for SP), may be enough to cause silvering, but perhaps not as extensive a silvering as happens if the bird has two copies?

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

All the split white eye peacocks I have never shown any white eye in their trains, i have 3.