Hopefully this reply does not cause confusion. The parents of the bird in question are visually normal Red-faced Parrot Finches and they are unrelated. The parents of the pair that produced this interesting bird is only known for the hen. Her parents were a pied sea-green and a visually normal bird. Would be nice if it was a mutation that could be established. I guess time will tell. BTW the bird is believed to be a hen
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Jade
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Welcome to the forum Joseph and Jade. I think it is a safe bet to say we all look forward to the ongoing story of establishing this very pretty mutation/variation .
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Unrelated parents, ok. Given she's a hen, now I'm thinking a sex-linked mutation - dad being split to yellow-face.JadeWelch wrote:Hopefully this reply does not cause confusion. The parents of the bird in question are visually normal Red-faced Parrot Finches and they are unrelated.
As the Mum is normal, on the balance of probabilities, one would suspect the yellow-face has come from the father and is a sex-linked mutation.JadeWelch wrote:The parents of the pair that produced this interesting bird is only known for the hen. Her parents were a pied sea-green and a visually normal bird.
Does that make sense?
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Hi all and thanks for inviting me. I've just found two babies out of the nest from the the same parents of this yellow biscuit parrot finch.seems like the colouring on the babies are normal. should I use them as breeders as well? Thanks Joseph
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i could be wrong -but i'm not and you have a very rare and very valuable bird hopping about in that aviary of yours. ..........so if you look after it and all goes well EVER-ONE will be very happy and the end results will be good to you too
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If it is a sexlinked mutation and a normal cock bird has been mated to her the young cocks will be possibles but most likely split and the young hens will be normal as you can't get split hens you can only get young coloured hens if the normal looking father is split but you say he is not related so can't be split.Joseph wrote:Hi all and thanks for inviting me. I've just found two babies out of the nest from the the same parents of this yellow biscuit parrot finch.seems like the colouring on the babies are normal. should I use them as breeders as well? Thanks Joseph
If it is SL mutation breed as many young as you can and separate any young cocks which will be split and breed to unrelated hens with one mating back to the mother to at least get a yellow cock bird. Once you have a yellow cock bird you can breed him to normal hens to produce yellow hens,normal hens and all young cocks will be splits.
If you are game enough you could put a young yellow cock to her and produce all yellow young to boost your yellow stock. Good luck. Craig