Blue pied questions

ritaz1964 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 30, 2011 7:37 pm

I have a pied boy! I dont think he will be ready for the business end until next year.....

While I have your attention, can I ask a question or two?

OKay.. there is pied, which means blue and white body in a boy (does it mean there are some white tail feathers?)

How can you tell a if a hen is SPLIT or PIED?

What is the difference between the two and between the sexes?

PiedPeas · **Posted:** Sat Jul 30, 2011 8:18 pm

Pied are in both sexes so both the peacock and peahen come in pied.

Most pied peacocks do have some white train feathers but every one is different and some have a few and some have lots.

Splits have white flight feathers and thats it no other white like a pied has

RPoultry · **Joined:** Thu May 27, 2010 9:40 pm **Posts:** 933

ritaz1964 wrote:

OKay.. there is pied, which means blue and white body in a boy (does it mean there are some white tail feathers?)

How can you tell a if a hen is SPLIT or PIED?

What is the difference between the two and between the sexes?

Yes, if the bird is pied there is the possibility for white to be in the train, yes, as the pied pattern is random.

If a hen is PIED, she will have patches of white all over the body, the same as in your male.
If the hen is SPLIT, then she will have a few white PRIMARY feathers, and depending on what she is split to (white or pied?), she MAYhave a little white under the chin/throat area, 1 or 2 white feathers under the wing, but by NO means will she definately have other white feathers around her body.

PIED: is white patches around the body, the same in BOTH SEXES.
SPLIT: is white feathers on the primary feathers (on the wing), and MAY have a few small white feathers somewhere else on the body, SAME IN BOTH SEXES.

ritaz1964 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 30, 2011 8:29 pm

okay.....a split boy has a blue tail but white feathers on the body/primaries.

I thought a split was better than a pied.

RPoultry · **Joined:** Thu May 27, 2010 9:40 pm **Posts:** 933

Well, it depends on what you want to use it for... can i ask why you thought this?

A SPLIT: is a bird whose parents are (in the case of SPLIT TO WHITE) a white and blue, or a Split and a blue, or a split and a white. or a split and a split.
For a SPLIT TO PIED, (known by some as the dark pied) the parents are going to be: a pied and a pied, a blue and a pied, or a split and a split, or a split to blue (some splits from the latter mating may not have any visible white, to show they are split)

Yes a split (again it depends on what it is split for) boy has some white primarys, but not necessarily white feathers on the body. Oh BTW, only a SPLIT TO PIED, will have other white feathers on the body, and these a tiny feathers usually under the chin, or under the wing.

PiedPeas · **Posted:** Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:02 pm

Here is a split http://database.amyspeacockparadise.com ... maries.JPG

PiedPeas · **Posted:** Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:06 pm

And no a split it not better than a pied to look at they just look like a normal blue

Here is a blue pied peacock and 2 pied peahens http://www.animalpicturesarchive.com/an ... Cowell.jpg

RPoultry · **Joined:** Thu May 27, 2010 9:40 pm **Posts:** 933

Good PP, pictures tell the story better...

PeacockNSW · **Posted:** Sun Jul 31, 2011 7:25 am

PiedPeas wrote:

Pied are in both sexes so both the peacock and peahen come in pied.

Most pied peacocks do have some white train feathers but every one is different and some have a few and some have lots.

Splits have white flight feathers and thats it no other white like a pied has

Well described J, I will just add that SOME split pieds have a white feather or two on the chest or chin

bluepeafowl · **Posted:** Sun Jul 31, 2011 7:56 am

I split your posts to make a new topic for you ritaz1964

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