Young white eyed peafowl pics.

[little buff]

He's a handsome fella

 

[nfrost]

Ok all this has me confused, I have 2 peacock that has white feathers on there wing not flight feathers but small ones you can only see when wings are extended I thought they had white in them, but one is a black shoulder the other I.B and none have white feathers any place else what does this mean?

 

[Kev]

The hen is white eyed- has white tips on feathers higher up on wing and on tail covert area. Male probably is but it is not as obvious as on her in the more recent pictures.

Split pied usually show no white. Pure pied can look a lot like split whites, but sometimes they will have white in areas that split whites normally don't show any white such as on areas higher up on the wing, white on chin extends well down the neck, perhaps one or two in the tail area. I suspect your pair are pure pied & the parents are both split pieds. (loud pieds are genetically half pied half white) Did the breeders get any pieds with a distinct patch of white on back or in the tail area?

Ultimately the only way to be sure is to test breed with whites- if they are pure pied and bred with whites, then all of the chicks will be pied. No IB or whites.

White eye is dominant, however it also has a very wide range of how it expresses, from very little signs of it to really obvious like in the picture someone else posted.

Everybody says white eyeds have white chins and flights, however every white eyed I bought with white flights/chin proved to be split white(50% white chicks when bred to whites). I also bred white eyeds with IB, in later generations without breeding to pieds or whites, got some white eyeds that looked possibly pure white eyed(very silvery, lots of random white feathers or eyes) and very frosted/silvery with no white on chin or flights.

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[DAS]

How old are they and do you have pics?

 

[Kev]

Ok all this has me confused, I have 2 peacock that has white feathers on there wing not flight feathers but small ones you can only see when wings are extended I thought they had white in them, but one is a black shoulder the other I.B and none have white feathers any place else what does this mean?

probably split pied. split means 'carrying the gene hidden' but sometimes a bird will show a little hint of it anyways. Only way you can really know for sure is by breeding them to whites. If they produce some very clearly pied chicks, then they are split pieds. But if they produce some completely white birds, then they are split whites.

 

[DAS]

Finally found a good picture. Yearling Pied white-eyed hen.

 

[zazouse]

The hen is white eyed- has white tips on feathers higher up on wing and on tail covert area. Male probably is but it is not as obvious as on her in the more recent pictures.

Split pied usually show no white. Pure pied can look a lot like split whites, but sometimes they will have white in areas that split whites normally don't show any white such as on areas higher up on the wing, white on chin extends well down the neck, perhaps one or two in the tail area. I suspect your pair are pure pied & the parents are both split pieds. (loud pieds are genetically half pied half white) Did the breeders get any pieds with a distinct patch of white on back or in the tail area?

Ultimately the only way to be sure is to test breed with whites- if they are pure pied and bred with whites, then all of the chicks will be pied. No IB or whites.

White eye is dominant, however it also has a very wide range of how it expresses, from very little signs of it to really obvious like in the picture someone else posted.

Everybody says white eyeds have white chins and flights, however every white eyed I bought with white flights/chin proved to be split white(50% white chicks when bred to whites). I also bred white eyeds with IB, in later generations without breeding to pieds or whites, got some white eyeds that looked possibly pure white eyed(very silvery, lots of random white feathers or eyes) and very frosted/silvery with no white on chin or flights.

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My pieds are brother and sister i also have another sister but she has the markings of a dark pied, what makes it difficult is the fact that the parents have no white feathers at all so i guess when they breed i will know better, i will be selling off the 3 blues males i have that have no white at all, that will leave me with 2 males with white flights and pied look and 7 females all the females have white flights so i am hopping for a variety of color from the matings.

 

[luckyducky9]

From what I have been told, Zaz, white eye is a dominant gene. So if the parents were both IB, he can't be white-eyed. One of them was split to pied for sure b/c of his white throat and primaries. I bet he could throw some stunning babies if he bred with your white.

yeah i bet he would

from:luckyducky9

 

[zazouse]

I hope they are not white eyed, i like the loud pieds but the white eyed makes me want to finsh painting what mother nature forgot, i guess it is the artist in me.

 

[NateinFL]

Split pied usually show no white.

Interesting...that's news to me-I thought that the split pied would have white on either their primaries or throat patch? I thought if they had white on their wings or throat they were split to either pied or white. That's what we're here for, to learn new things