what do you get if you cross a white eyed pied peach male with peach hens ?

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would you get a certain % of peaches along with a certain % of white eyed pied peaches and a certain % of whites ?
 
You will get all peach ( should ) all split to W E and pied and some white eyed as the W E seems to move around easly from one sex.. There are a lot of birds that have a few white eyes but a good one will have mostly all white eyes .
 
If the peach pied white eye male is carrying one copy of white eye gene (where in you see only a few- may be 20 white eyed TRAIN feathers) = 1) all the chicks will be peach. 2) 50 % will be split to white, 3) 50% will be split to pied. and 50% will have some (again may be 20 or so) white eyed TRAIN feathers. The white eyed gene may combine with white or pied but not both. On the other hand if the male is carrying 2 copies of white eye gene It is called a peach silverpied, all the chicks will get one copy of white eye gene. By the by, white eye gene, they say is self expressive independently all by itself, Can not be masked by any pattern gene or colored gene except two white ( TT) genes.
 
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thank you for your help.
I will pass the info along , am asking for a friend who owns these birds cause I sure don't know and guess they don't really either to some point.
My friend says the birds will produce white chicks too ,
maybe one or more of the peach hens are white eyed but they look just peachy to me, would that be what could be hapening in order to get white chicks from the mating of those birds ?
the male bird has some dark eyes but mostly white ones and the white spot on his throat, hes really pretty.
 
This cross will not produce white chicks at all unless the peach hen is split to white.To get white chicks both parents must have at least one copy of white gene. If you inbreed the chicks split to white (brother and sister) when they reach maturity, you will get some white chicks. Peach split to white means, mostly Peach looking bird but will have a couple of white flight feathers and may be a small white throat patch. And peach split to pied will not show any white any where on the body.
 

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