Who owns a White Eye PeaFowl

[kuntrygirl]

Whoops, my fault. Didn't mean to hijack the thread. I'll start a thread on Albinos.

 

[Arbor]

White eyed is a pattern mutation. You need to have one parent that carries the gene in order for it to show up in the offspring. If a bird, lets just assume its male, has a single copy, you will see only a limited number of white eyes in his train. If a male is carrying two copies of the gene, he will have all white eyes in his train (or at least nearly all). Have a look at some of Brad Leggs photos. His opal w/e is stunning in full display. The midnight Blackshoulder w/e display photo is likely only one copy

 

[Habibs Hens]

Whoops, my fault. Didn't mean to hijack the thread. I'll start a thread on Albinos.

No its ok I didn't mind after all it was still peafowl related

White eyed is a pattern mutation. You need to have one parent that carries the gene in order for it to show up in the offspring. If a bird, lets just assume its male, has a single copy, you will see only a limited number of white eyes in his train. If a male is carrying two copies of the gene, he will have all white eyes in his train (or at least nearly all). Have a look at some of Brad Leggs photos. His opal w/e is stunning in full display. The midnight Blackshoulder w/e display photo is likely only one copy

Cool I see now

I first saw this picture and thought it was an awesome bird

that why I started the thread

 

[Arbor]

They ARE awesome birds

 

[Yoda]

I just logged on to ask a question about the white peas and I saw this thread. Are the solid white peas considered "Albino"?

No white peas are not Albinos. Knowing who the parents are will tell you what kind of bird it is. For example you have a pair of India Blues both split to white and they hatch out a white chick, you know that the chick is a white IB. The white only masks the true color of the bird.

 

[kuntrygirl]

I just logged on to ask a question about the white peas and I saw this thread. Are the solid white peas considered "Albino"?

No white peas are not Albinos. Knowing who the parents are will tell you what kind of bird it is. For example you have a pair of India Blues both split to white and they hatch out a white chick, you know that the chick is a white IB. The white only masks the true color of the bird.

Thank you.

 

[Habibs Hens]

No white peas are not Albinos. Knowing who the parents are will tell you what kind of bird it is. For example you have a pair of India Blues both split to white and they hatch out a white chick, you know that the chick is a white IB. The white only masks the true color of the bird.

is this basically the same as dominant and recessive genes in chicken ?

where dominant White Masks Black

and Lavender X Black is 50% Split to Lav and 50% Black offspring

then F2 Split X Split = 25% Lavender, 50% Split, 25% Black offspring

Then obviously LAV X LAV Breeds True

 

[bklingler]

Yes, that sounds about right. Like in biology class, we have the punnet square w/ a A as dominant and a as recessive . so the offspring will all be red as the red gene covers the blue gene. If it makes any sense. Hope this is helpful.

all offspring 100% red or a rare mutation that combines both red and blue.

Then when the offspring interbreed, their offspring have different percentages on what their going to be. 50% blue which is a Bb; 25% white BB; 25% black is bb. If that even makes sense either. sorry if i confused you guys and gals.

 

[GardienneWings]

As far as white, I was told years ago, it makes things clearer if you think of white as a pattern rather than a color. It is a pattern that covers all the color in a bird but the genes for the color are still there. Like in a pied where white covers PART of the actual color. You can have a White Purple or a White Blackshoulder Blue but if you don't know the genetics behind the bird or you have an odd color offspring pop up you would never know what color is "under" the white.

Val

 

[MinxFox]

I don't own any white eyed peafowl, but there are some really beautiful photos of white eye peafowl on Texaspeafowl:
India Blue White Eye (very very pretty bird): http://www.texaspeafowl.com/images/blwe.JPG
Cameo White Eye: http://texaspeafowl.com/DSC_2621.jpg
Bronze White Eye: http://texaspeafowl.com/DSC_9702.JPG
Opal White Eye: http://texaspeafowl.com/DSC_9926.JPG

It seems like there are a lot more Pied White Eye birds than there are India Blue White Eye. I like the looks of the India Blue White Eye the most of all the White Eye birds.

I got confused one time...I was looking up photos of peacocks and found a photo of a beautiful peacock with perfect white circles on all of his eye feathers. I thought it was the most beautiful white eye I had ever seen and then I wanted white eye peafowl. It turns out it was not really his feathers, but stickers that someone put on his feathers because they were doing an experiment. Here is a short article about what I am talking about and a photo of a peacock with the white stickers displaying. It really confused me at first! http://roslyndakin.com/archives/319