Aussie Finch Forum

Hi, does anyone know if you bred a split fawn paintedfiretail to a yellow normal firetail , what would the babies be?
Is it best to bred yellow to yellow paintedS ?
spilt fawn to spilt fawn to get fawns ?
Thanks Natnaniel

Have you read all the section on Painteds? I seem to recall something along these lines being discussed before. Might not be in the specific section.

Fawn painteds are autosomal recessive so if a fawn bird is bred to a normal all young are split fawns. A split fawn to a normal will produce 50% splits and 50% normals so not a good way to go.
You can breed fawn to fawn to get 100% fawn but as i said in earlier post you need to add new blood as you go.
The best breeding is a split to a colour of either sex to get colour and all split young, remembering a colour bird to any normal bird or split bird will always produce splits and in the case of the split bird they will produce colour and splits.

Thanks for the reply

And, I know it wasn't your question . . but . .

Provided there are no 'splits' involved, if you breed FAWN to YELLOW (either way) . .

You will get ALL normal-coloured birds that are split for both Yellow and Fawn . .

Thanks Arthur that was part of my question

Split Fawn to Normal will produce 50% Split, 50% Normal. All normal coloured so in real term 100% possible split.

Yes sorry Alf, split to normal 50/50. My head was spinning a bit.

Craig 52 could I use your advice in a birdkeeper article. Thanks kind regards Gympie birds

Certainly Gympie birds.