I have come on this forum specifically to find out about Red Faced Yellow Bodied Star Finches, as I understood it they have both cinnamon and fawn in the same bird.
I phoned the lad who first bred them in Australia in 2004 and he told me he thought they were a Dominant Mutation, I hope this is the case as I only have attained one cock bird but if they were Dominant I'd expect them to be every where like Cockroaches, I don't think they are.
Regarding a description, this bird is Yellow back and front with bright Red face but his primaries are green, does anyone have any information on this Mutation.
The good news is I just put him and a heavily Pied hen into a large aviary and within a week there is a nest in a tube.
I have no idea either how pied is inherited in Star finches and whether this is an appropriate mate.
It looks as though I don't know much about anything????
Yours aye Alistair
YELLOW BODY _RED FACED STARS
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Alistair
I'm not sure how this site works yet but here goes, the birds in the posted picture are not Yellow Bodied Stars, now that I see someone on here is actually breeding them I hope they can tell me how to proceed with only one cock bird, how the color is inherited.
By the way when I bought this pair, the hen is pied, I paid $200, I had no idea what they were worth and neither did the dealer.
Yours aye, Alistair
By the way when I bought this pair, the hen is pied, I paid $200, I had no idea what they were worth and neither did the dealer.
Yours aye, Alistair
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Tiaris
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The ideal mate for a yellow-bodied male (apart from a YB hen) is a fawn hen. They will produce YB hens & fawn split cinnamon cocks. YB is not dominant. The cinnamon component is sex-linked recessive & the fawn bit is autosomal recessive. A pied hen would be better utilised with other pied birds. As far a YB is concerned, pied would be an outcross with identical results to a normal.
