What color is she ?

[chickenzoo]

She is a greyish color with white flights and a few white specks on her back.......

 

[Kev]

She is White-eyed split for white(the white in flights and on upper throat means split white).

It's been said that white in flights and throat is a white eyed trait... however every white eye I bought with those proved to be split white(produced white chicks) so have doubts about it being a white eyed trait too.

 

[MinxFox]

So white eyeds are going to be silvery or grey in color like that one right and that also applies to silver pieds am I right?
I love the pictures! I was wondering what one looked like compared to a regular India blue peahen and that is a really good comparison picture.

 

[chickenzoo]

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Hummm... I'm not sure I understand all the color stuff. A white eyed what? I understand splits etc... well some of it, but white eye happens in many colors..... correct... so I'm not sure i understand how something is just white eye????? Where does the grey color come in..... sorry I still have trouble wrapping my head around these things...

 

[Kev]

She's White eyed India Blue. That's how a female white eye looks without anything else 'added'.

The white eyed gene causes the grey/silvery color on body plus that 'sugar frosted' look.. look at her from different angles and you will see what looks like a haze or thin layer of something 'white' on the grey body. It also causes random white feathers on hens, these can change in number and location each year.

White eyed IB peacocks look similar to IB, except the barred part of their wings can have that sugar frosted look, but it varies a lot from bird to bird.. also the eyes on their tails have a white spot in the middle. Size of the white spot varies too.. can be real tiny and hard to see until you have it in your hand, all the way up to the entire eye being white. Can have different sizes on the same bird too...

White eye is considered one of the patterns in peafowl, along with black shoulder and pied. And yes can combine white eyed with other colors to make white eyed cameo, WE purple, etc. All silver pieds have the white eyed gene.. the name comes from the silver pied peahens having their colored patches a silvery color, just like on your hen.

That's an excellent picture, looks probably slightly exaggerated by flash.. but yes that's how they look..

Also white eye does fade some(not as much as purple or cameo) in the sun, so they can look even lighter grey/silvery in the summer before the molt.

 

[MinxFox]

Huh I didn't know they faded a little. That is interesting.

 

[Yoda]

Chickenzoo,
I think that is the prettiest female I have seen and I am insanely jealous right now LOL! You know who to call if you ever want to sell her

She walks like she is on "The real housewives of Florida"

 

[TASH 66]

This year I have a girl and she has the same sort of sugar frosted look . Does it mean she has the white eyed gene or she just a biuteful India Blue Pied girl?

Chickenzoo, lucky you , your bird is amazing

. LOL

 

[Kev]

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It's not very noticeable unless you have pictures of the same bird through the year or at molting time- new feathers are distinctly darker. Not like on purple or cameo, where the fading is obvious.

 

[Kev]

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She looks like peahens I got out of crosses with silver pied. For reasons I don't know why, they didn't really get much of the silvery/grey color like on white eyes(that were not out of silver pied). More like a lighter shade of brown than IB and have less of the sugar frosted look.

To answer your question, I would guess your hen is basically split for silver pied. If you bred her with silver pied or whites out of silver pied, probably would get a couple silver pied chicks.

My first white eyes came directly from Ernie West who I understood was the discoverer of the white eye and Frances Ray(iirc, they got from West also?). All of them were exactly like chickenzoo's hen, I outcrossed them with whites, blues etc and they also came out silvery grey with heavy 'frosting'.

Many years later, got a silver pied peacock and crossed them with whites and white eyeds.. the result were hens just like yours- more like a lighter brown with less frosting(compared to my original WE). I don't know why.. silver pieds are supposed to be all white eyed also, therefore all offspring should be "white eyed". my tentative guess is silver pied maybe have something different but this is a complete guess.

Even the chicks looked distinct from each other.. the original white eyed chicks were same as IB except they look faded, much like jeans washed countless times. The non-pied chicks from silver pied crosses all had very yellow head, neck, belly and lighter tan on back and wings than IB.