White feather from a damaged follicle?

[new 2 pfowl]

Do you guys know if a damaged follicle can produce a random white feather?

Peggy all of a sudden has a white primary covert:


Of course, I have no idea about his genetics, but he has never had a white feather before.

The reasons I thought it might be from a damaged follicle are:
• The feather has grown in upside down
(you're looking at the back of the feather) (it's white on the other side too)
• These are some of the feathers he had ripped out by a predator!
• In the predator attack, some of his primary coverts didn't actually get pulled out, but were twisted upside down like this feather

Have any of you experienced this?
Or...do you think he has been hiding some secret white gene????

 

[MinxFox]

He could have been hiding a gene.

Peep recently grew one white feather on his forehead and while I know he is split to white or pied, I have never seen him have one white feather on his head.

 

[new 2 pfowl]

That would be a surprise!
He's a rescue bird, so his ancestry is a complete mystery.

 

[MinxFox]

Ahh well he probably is split. My peahen Ice is a blackshoulder from the zoo and she confused me a few years ago when she mated with a pied peacock and had a white peachick and two split to whites (one I think might have been dark pied not sure though). I just wrote it off thinking she stole the pied peahen's eggs somehow. Recently I saw Ice sunbathing with her wing all spread out. She had one white flight feather about in the same place as the one on Peggy. It was good to know for sure, but now I am annoyed that all of my birds are so mixed up. I should have bought birds from breeders who keep better records or who actually keep records, but I didn't know any better.