Indian Blue Leucistic (Other)
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COLOR:
Blue is the natural, unmutated color of the Indian peafowl, also known as the wild type (aka the type found in the wild).
CONTENT:
This page contains photos of blue wild types and blackshoulders that are split white, split pied, OR dark pied (wild type color, carrying one gene for white pattern OR one gene for pied pattern OR two genes for pied pattern).
PATTERN DESCRIPTION:
A split leucistic or dark pied bird is a colored bird that may or may not have white flight feathers (primaries and alulae feathers), and a white patch at the top of their throat (the throat latch).
GENETICS:
The leucistic genes white and pied are alleles. This means that they take up the same space on their chromosome, so birds may only have a total of 2 (two white, OR two pied, OR one pied and one white, but not two white AND one pied at the same time).
The leucistic gene "white" is an incomplete dominant. This means that when a bird has only one copy, instead of being invisible like a recessive, it shows in the phenotype. However, since the visual presentation of one copy vs two copies is different, dominance is considered "incomplete."
The leucistic gene "pied" is a dominant gene. Like white, a single copy shows in the phenotype, but unlike white, a double copy looks no different than a single copy.
NOTES:
Unfortunately, split white, split pied, and dark pied all have the same visual presentation. The only way to tell for sure which genes an individual bird has is to breed the bird in question to a white and look at the offspring. Bred to a white, split white birds will produce only white and split white offspring. Bred to a white, split pied will only produce pied and split white offspring. Bred to a white, dark pied will produce only pied offspring.
Blue is the natural, unmutated color of the Indian peafowl, also known as the wild type (aka the type found in the wild).
CONTENT:
This page contains photos of blue wild types and blackshoulders that are split white, split pied, OR dark pied (wild type color, carrying one gene for white pattern OR one gene for pied pattern OR two genes for pied pattern).
PATTERN DESCRIPTION:
A split leucistic or dark pied bird is a colored bird that may or may not have white flight feathers (primaries and alulae feathers), and a white patch at the top of their throat (the throat latch).
GENETICS:
The leucistic genes white and pied are alleles. This means that they take up the same space on their chromosome, so birds may only have a total of 2 (two white, OR two pied, OR one pied and one white, but not two white AND one pied at the same time).
The leucistic gene "white" is an incomplete dominant. This means that when a bird has only one copy, instead of being invisible like a recessive, it shows in the phenotype. However, since the visual presentation of one copy vs two copies is different, dominance is considered "incomplete."
The leucistic gene "pied" is a dominant gene. Like white, a single copy shows in the phenotype, but unlike white, a double copy looks no different than a single copy.
NOTES:
Unfortunately, split white, split pied, and dark pied all have the same visual presentation. The only way to tell for sure which genes an individual bird has is to breed the bird in question to a white and look at the offspring. Bred to a white, split white birds will produce only white and split white offspring. Bred to a white, split pied will only produce pied and split white offspring. Bred to a white, dark pied will produce only pied offspring.