Re: Cordon Blues

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What is the difference between a lutino CORDON BLEU and a normal CORDON BLEU ???
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There is such a thing as a Lutino Cordon Bleu?
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never heard of a lutino.... did you mean pied?
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You can get Black Eyed Yellow and Cinnamon but not in AUS or NZ
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TA Henry. Nice avatar by the way!!

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I read somewhere on a finch site u can get lutino BLEUs i wasn't sure to tell u the truth... If it turned out i was just stoopid - oh well!!
Ok so while we are all talking about CORDONs what is the difference between a pied and a normal. I know its something to do with patches of color??? :clap: :problem: :eureka:
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Normal cordon is Blue and brown

Pied Cordon has splashes of white colouring through where blue and brown was in a some places
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So its color Appears patchy so is pied rarer than normal and more expensive??
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Pieds should cost double the price of Normals
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Haven't seen any for sale probably because. they so.expensive.
I noticed however there is a pr of red-eared firetails in gumtree for sale $800.pr..you'd hope they breed wouldn't u!!!!

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