yellow fawn St Helena

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wagga
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2 years ago I purchased a couple of pairs of saints. The hens were yellow paired up with split fawn/yellow cockbirds. A total of 10 chicks from 3 nests in the 1st year produced only fawn possible split birds. Unfortunately the yellow hens died off during the winter. This left no visual yellow birds only split yellow fawn birds in the aviary.
This year I was surprised to see in one nest of chicks, a single yellow fawn bird was produced. After a month or so I caught and placed white leg rings on them. The 3 fawn birds, 2 hens &1cockbird, and a yellow fawn cockbird. At the Taree bird sale I swapped blood lines for a unrelated yellow fawn hen. This hen was placed in another aviary with 2 unrelated possible split fawn hens and my 2 sibling cockbirds, in total 5 young birds. I intend to swap blood lines with another breeder in the future.

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Glad to hear you did not loose the genes. Good luck with the future breeding.
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angus
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Could you post some pictures please.
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wagga
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These birds are paired up to yellow fawn split birds.
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They are a pretty bird. Glad to see you are doing OK with them. :thumbup:
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wagga
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I am awaiting their 1st nest to fledge. This will hopefully prove their inheritance traits, Sex Linked or Autosomal Recessive, as I am using two different bloodlines of coloured birds with my own split birds. If all goes well the birds will have coloured progeny by next year. Then I will introduce new bloodlines, if available, into the aviary.
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Both A-R
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Craig52
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Yes tend to agree arthur, autosomal recessive for yellow saints same as for yellow painteds. Craig
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Tiaris
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Red fawns are fairly scarce these days - very attractive mutation IMO.
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E Orix
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Sadly the fawns of today are no where near the quality and looks of those we had years ago.
They were a lovely light fawn colour and the red areas were absolutely blood red.
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