PIED
pi//pi
This mutation can be produced in any color
combination - several colors are pictured below. The body (skin) of a
PIED bird is always white - splashed with another color. PIED is not a
"combination" of white and another color, but an entirely separate mutation.
Young juveniles are "grizzled" or streaked in coloration (see
pics). Bill is light to light with dark tipped to black (see below for
possible bill colorations). Eye
color is dark (looks black); since 2000 I have seen 4 Pieds which have one or
both "colored irises ". Neck ring can be full, broken or nonexistent. Hatchling "pied" are pink skinned with
light to dark splotches on upper rump; except for the Bulleyed White hatchlings. (see pics under Hatchling
Comparison for a typical pied hatchling).
Pattern Pied - may not be a current mutant but
producing such "patterned" birds is quite possible. Selective breeding must be
strictly followed & remember the new Pattern must be repeated for at least three
generations with very little deviation from the original "pattern" you
want.
Blond (Fawn) Pied
dB// pi//pi
Tangerine Pied
or Orange Pied
Ta pi//pi
dB Ta pi//pi
Peach Pied
dB//ry//ry
pi//pi
©John Fowler
Rosy Pied
ry//ry pi//pi
Wild Type Pied
D+// pi//pi