Normal Gouldians

[Nathan Morleyy]

vettepilot_6 ,
My flock of gouldians are pure normals.

Thanks Nathan

[SamDavis]

Some years ago I had a strain of yellow heads running for about 10 years - about 10 breeding pairs. Every year I'd purchase a few new yellow head cocks to introduce new blood (supposedly all were free of mutations). Then a white breast appeared (which I sold) and then over the years many white breasts appeared, so it's easier said than done. I only keep a few gouldians now - 2 are descendants of this line (and one is a white breast!).

Tintola, how many pairs do you keep? I'm always concerned about infertility and other issues emerging if I don't introduce new blood.
Nathan, how do you know they're pure normals?

[jusdeb]

Sam is the white likely to be a mutation that would occur naturally in the wild ...?

[SamDavis]

Not present in the wild to my knowledge Deb. White Breasted is recessive, I probably introduced a split at some stage or maybe it was present in one of the original birds and it just took some years for two splits to breed.

[jusdeb]

Thanks Sam .

[vettepilot_6]

vettepilot_6 ,
My flock of gouldians are pure normals.

Thanks Nathan

Hi Nathan how long have you been breeding gouldians? can you be sure of that.....I bred normals for 18yrs straight never a mutant...but I doubt that could be said of 99% of the Goulds out there now...dave

[Nathan Morleyy]

Dave ,
I have been breeding gouldians for 10 years and never a mutant.

Thanks Nathan

[SamDavis]

How many pairs do you have Nathan? And have you ever purchased a gouldian from a shop? These days I'd say it would be very rare indeed to have a flock of pure normals.

[Nathan Morleyy]

Sam,
I have never purchased a gouldian from a shop.

Thanks Nathan

[SamDavis]

OK

Sam,
I have never purchased a gouldian from a shop.

Thanks Nathan

OK. So how many pairs do you have and over the ten years how many new birds have you added to the flock?