The bird displaying is carrying 1 copy of white eye, if he was a double all or almost all eyes would be white. This is where the discussion/disagreement comes in, some say it is a clear cut case of having certain genes in a bird and you have a silver others seem to think that you can have these certain genes and still not end up with a silver. They think that the genes have to affect each other almost like a mutation I suppose, in order to get the silvered saddle feathers, and once you have this you breed back to it. It is getting that interaction/mutation to occur in the first place that is hit or miss. You can just end up with a bunch of pieds that do not have the silvered look. When I send you eggs I'll try to make sure you get silver genes, I have 2 silver hens laying and I have a dark pied hen out of silvers who produces silver offspring.
I have these two pied three year old cocks that I think might be white eyed, I don't know for sure. I also have two 2013 hatch white eyed hens that I got from a friend that raised them from Brad Legg white eyed pair. Is this enough to work with to get silver? I am pretty sure the Legg pair were both double factor.
Woo Hoo!Thank you! And thanks for looking at my pied/we. Both of these guys took a beating in that little cage they were in at the auction, the one not displaying has lost half the length of his train but a lot of the feathers HAD white eyes. The guy displaying in the picture I counted what I thought were seven white eyes but I was not sure if some of the pied coloring would put white splotches on the feathers that would not count as white eye. So you cleared that up for me, thank you.
