The white bird in the middle (of course)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Belly shot:

 

 

 

I know the photos aren't the best. To get better, I guess I will have to catch her up, which I'd like to put off, since she just came out of the nest.

 

 

The father is a normal/rec pied (At least, I think so, since he has the pied spot on his head, and no other indication of poorly marked pied).

 

The mother was, I THOUGHT, a clearflight pied. But all the pied chicks appear dommies to me, so I'm rethinking that. Plus, IF the mother is split to recessive pied, and IF this chick is indeed visual for recessive pied, then the mom would have to be a Dom Pied, or else the chick would have been a Dark Eyed Clear.

 

The choices are:

 

SF dom pied

 

SF dom pied and split for recessive pied

 

SF dom pied and visual recessive pied

 

To post photos of the parents will take me a bit, I'll have to find some and upload them to Photobucket first.

 

 

 

 

 

This is the best parent photo I can come up with for the time being.

 

 

I'll have to either search more, or get out the camera. It might take me a while.

Edited December 6, 201113 yr by Finnie

I am not good with genetics Finnie but to me the chick looks Dom pied and the mother looks dom pied, only saying because I have some babies looking the same with the white wings and they are dom pieds.

Does the mum have the iris ring like a dom pied or does she have the recessive eye with no iris ring.

Edited December 7, 201113 yr by **KAZ**

The chick is opaline dominant pied. Although there are more clear areas on the body than usual there is no visual sign of recessive pied

Cool I was right , thanks Neville

The chick is opaline dominant pied. Although there are more clear areas on the body than usual there is no visual sign of recessive pied

 

 

okay, thanks. I guess I thought that her back had a more spotty pattern of markings, whereas all my other dom pieds have a more solid pattern to their markings. (Like the mother in the picture.)