White spaulding ....genetic

[Dany12]

This sentence : Origin: White Spaldings were created by breeding the white color gene into the spalding hybrid.
For me , White Spaldings were created by breeding the white color gene into a Green peafowl ( pavo muticus ).
I' m wrong ?
http://peacockgirl.tripod.com/Peafowl_Variet/White_Spaldx.html

 

[zazouse]

True
I would think you would breed a white IB to a pure green bird to get a white spalding ,not white to a spalding cause in the end if you bred a white to a spalding wouldn't you be duliting the spalding blood as they do not breed true.
Just wondering also

 

[AquaEyes]

From my perspective, it's a grammar issue. The spaldings are hybrids. The greens are the pure species. If you breed a mutant IB with a green, you are putting the IB's mutation INTO the spalding population, NOT INTO the green population. Therefore, you're breeding the white INTO the spaldings by breeding a white IB WITH a green.

 

[FrankYLegend]

White Peafowl, like Black Shouldered, may themselves have origins as hybrid peafowl. The black-shouldered was the result of these hybrids introduced into Europe.

We cannot just assume that these birds came from only the Indian Peafowl. The Japanese imported both Sri Lankan and various forms of Green Peafowl and they hybridized. The people of Bhutan and Tibet brought the Nepalese cristatus and the Green-complex birds together; these birds are considered sacred and roam wild in alpine valleys. (fortunately there's no threat to hybridisation with these as they remain isolated from the true wild Yunnan antiqus and Arakan spicifer). These hybrids are well-adapted having gone through thousands of years of natural selection. The reason why these birds look almost identical to cristatus over muticus is due to the fact that Indian Peafowl are ecological generalists while Green Peafowl are more specific with their habitats.

It would explain why Black Shouldered Peafowls have a slight iridescence. (some people call Green Peafowl Black-winged Peafowl) and also how some white peafowl have yellow facial skin.

There was already a wild Green Peafowl that was fully white, depicted in ancient Chinese and Japanese paintings. Unfortunately this species has become extinct.

Also, has anyone ever seen a true Albino (not white or leucistic) Peafowl?

 

[6littlechickies]

From my perspective, it's a grammar issue. The spaldings are hybrids. The greens are the pure species. If you breed a mutant IB with a green, you are putting the IB's mutation INTO the spalding population, NOT INTO the green population. Therefore, you're breeding the white INTO the spaldings by breeding a white IB WITH a green.

Agree with this post, there is no known color mutation into the green peafowl like there is the blue.

 

[deerman]

Agree with this post, there is no known color mutation into the green peafowl like there is the blue.

I also agree. First cross was white ib to green. Which produced spaldings split white.
Spalding whites are also crossed with green now also.


I DID HATCH ONE ALBINO chick with pink eyes..it died before it dryed off in the hatcher

 

[Arbor]

I DID HATCH ONE ALBINO chick with pink eyes..it died before it dryed off in the hatcher

That's still pretty cool, too bad it died. What were it parents? Has anyone else had an albino chick hatch before? I read of a guy who hatched an albino golden pheasant, but it too was quite weak, and I believe it only lived a week or two.

 

[ranit]

I have a 2 yr old pair of white peafowl I bought as chicks. The male has some of the yellow on his face. Does this mean he has some green/spalding blood?

 

[deerman]

I have a 2 yr old pair of white peafowl I bought as chicks. The male has some of the yellow on his face. Does this mean he has some green/spalding blood?

Good odds he is a spalding white......but even pure blue will get yellow face if feed ALOT of corn.

 

[deerman]

One thing to remember......you can't get a white spalding.....without breeding to a spalding.

White X green only produce spalding split white