Only one does. The father is a black shoulder with no white any where...no visible extra genes at all...and the mothers are IB silver pieds. Silver meaning at least 90% white.Were both parents of these Peachicks carrying a copy of the Pied gene?
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Only one does. The father is a black shoulder with no white any where...no visible extra genes at all...and the mothers are IB silver pieds. Silver meaning at least 90% white.Were both parents of these Peachicks carrying a copy of the Pied gene?
Quote: The reason I asked is because it's my understanding that to produce Dark Pied offspring the chicks need to receive a copy of the Pied gene from each parent. So wouldn't that make these chicks either split to Pied or split to White (besides also being split to BS and carrying 1 copy of W/E)?
I am pretty clueless when it comes to the finer points of genetics still. From what I understood though PeepsCa is right. They are IB split to pied carrying 1 copy of white eye and the bs gene. The father was BS and the 2 mothers were each SP. I am very excited to see if they, especially the boy, keep the white spots when they color out. About 85% of the chicks from the sp hens had the white spots on their heads or necks. I asked everybody that got one to send pics when they grow up. I hope at least a few do.
OK, so what do you guys think I should call these chicks to me most helpful in the Chick Chart?![]()
"IB split BS and split Pied, carrying one copy of WE"?
Would this be helpful or confusing (like it is to me)?