I was visiting a local peafowl breeder yesterday. A few years ago I traded with him to get his beautiful pied peacock who I named Dragon. What I traded was what I thought was a "dark pied" peahen from another breeder that I had just picked up along with a pied peahen (Damsel) that I kept. Well, he has been keeping the dark pied in with his pied and says he is not getting pieds from them so now I feel bad for giving him the wrong thing.
Just now I thought of how stupid it was that I never thought to tell him to put one of his white peahens in with the pied male to get whites and pieds! BUT, what I am unsure of now is that he told me if he breeds an India Blue to one of his whites, he gets blackshoulders. That must mean his whites are blackshoulder whites or would that be split to blackshoulder whites? Anyways if he breeds one of those whites to the pied peacock, would he still get pieds and whites even if the white is also split to blackshoulder? I am guessing yes, but I didn't want to tell him something I was unshure about.
So a white peafowl split to blackshoulder X a IB pied = 50% white and 50% pied correct??
Just now I thought of how stupid it was that I never thought to tell him to put one of his white peahens in with the pied male to get whites and pieds! BUT, what I am unsure of now is that he told me if he breeds an India Blue to one of his whites, he gets blackshoulders. That must mean his whites are blackshoulder whites or would that be split to blackshoulder whites? Anyways if he breeds one of those whites to the pied peacock, would he still get pieds and whites even if the white is also split to blackshoulder? I am guessing yes, but I didn't want to tell him something I was unshure about.
So a white peafowl split to blackshoulder X a IB pied = 50% white and 50% pied correct??
