White feathers in the wing .... A MUST or NOT !

I have no idea, but all of my hens and 2012 chicks have them, and a few have little white patches on their throats.

-Kathy
 
Split pied do not show visual white and split white usually show white flights with or without a white throat patch. This is not just inIndiablue but all other colors can have white flight feathers when split to white. dark pieds can have w.f.f and birds with white eye gene also show w.f.f.
 
My charcoal white eye is split to silver pied and my hen which is IB split charcoal is also split pied but neither have any white feathers at all yet I got IB, white, pied, w/e and charcoal chicks from them.
 
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My charcoal white eye is split to silver pied and my hen which is IB split charcoal is also split pied but neither have any white feathers at all yet I got IB, white, pied, w/e and charcoal chicks from them.
Split pied means only one pied gene-- does not show any visual white like your IB /charcoal/pied hen. Split white some times (uncommon ) do not show any visual white on the body.Therefore I used the word USUALLY. Actually, all colors including white are mutants (a sudden heritable change) from Indiablue.. There is no single silverpied gene. Silverpied bird genetically got one white gene (T), one pied gene (pd) and two white eye genes (w/e, w/e). Yoda, when you say 'Charcoal white eye split silver pied, I can not figure out his genetic make up... To get a white chick , both parents must have a white gene. To get a pied bird one parent must have a white gene and the other a pied gene. White eye gene expresses by itself- can not be masked by any except white. The parents did not have any white on their body and you got all these chicks is an imp. observation.
 

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