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Devito2
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What do you mean by the cock must be a split to blue?
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Craig52
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To get Silver both parent must be split to blue as it is impossible if one only is to get a silver. As said earlier a silver is two mutations combined, Euro yellow and blue. The yellow mutation makes the blue mutation whitish or light grey.
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Nice looking silver I think?
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Nice looking bird mate, now to wait till it colours up.
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It's very interesting to see the pictures of the babies of different mutations in the same clutch, thank you.

Did they molt into adult plumage? I would like to see their adult colors.

I thought the dark one was a blue back ( No euro yellow + DF blue mutation ) instead of pastel ( male SF sex-linked Euro yellow + DF blue mutation ) , what did it grow into?
finchbreeder wrote: 21 Jul 2022, 11:51 I think you hit the genetic lottery.
Totally. What a varied bundle of chicks.

P.S. I rarely see pics of silvers, is it normal for the beads to still have some pale blue as the one pictured above? Or will it turn-out to be ( male ) pastel?
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