Pied Sun help

[xafsmom]

I didn't intend to breed anything 'pied', to start with. Be that as it may, I ended up with a pair of pied Suns. Both are reputed to be visual pied (pure yellow at first feather, pure white flight primaries) for a Sun. First, is this correct, or was I misled on what 'pied' is for a Sun? Second, what, if known, is the genetic production of this mutation, like.. two visuals; visual pieds, a % of visuals, with splits? Recessives? Not sure if this works like cockatiels or anything.

Like I said, it was a fluke to get this pairing, so mainly I'm curious more than anything, so if anyone has knowledge, I'd love to know it! I DO know that the visual male came from two very ordinary Suns (mine).

[Monica]

You probably have pieds... and genes that work the same as in cockatiels. If both parents are visual pieds then your likely to get 100% pied offspring. If only one parent is pied, then your likely to get normal offspring split pieds.

That is, assuming the pied gene is recessive (which I assume it is, particularly with a pied offspring that came from two normal birds, thus suggesting the parents might be splits, especially if they produce more pieds - if not then he's a "fluke") and not dominant.

There's not really much info out there on the larger species mutations, so the only way to know is to ask another breeder who breeds pied suns!