Aussie Finch Forum

yes i am waiting to see the results from this myself...pete

finchbreeder wrote:My reading of this is that Sea green is sex linked. So if cock is normal red then daughters will be the same. Didn't know this before. Anyone in W.A. who is interested in red heads and sea greens their are quite a few going to be sold at the Birdworld Auction on 23-5-10 would go and look first mind. Wish I was not working as there are a couple of pairs of St. Helena's including fawns and an odd one. Anyone heard of yellow St. Helenas?
LML

In regards to Yellow ST Helenas,yes they are around but you do not see them often, I have a pair,The hens is only young she was sitting a month ago but the eggs were clear.

Off the topic but Reds in Zebras seem to be the same the crappy looking Reds are producing better Reds than the better looking ones.

Matt wrote: poitta wrote:i have been told that, if you put a split for sea green cock to sea green hen( the uglier the better) u get the better sea green looking birds......pete



Wonder what the logic is behind that one. I have a pretty ugly sea green hen that has produced well for me but I can't say that any of her young are special.

Maybe the idea is if the hen is ugly she has used all her ugly genes and therefore her offspring can only be stunning!

If u have RF cock. & SG hen.. The chicks will b SG.. 80% hens. . Know a bloke who breeds that way and always gets hens..

Are you sure his cock is not split SG? Because this should not be possible otherwise.
See this website http://www.finchsociety.org/cfa/redface/redface.htm
LML

Na mate try it urself if u think I'm tellin fibs.. Just givin advice believe or not..

I don't have them, and haven't had them (anything but normal reds and blues that is). Am going purely on what I have read. Just asked cause it seemed to contradict everything I could find to read about them. But that's what aviculture is about living and learning. And that's probably all any of us on here can claim to do. Give advice based on what we know and have read.
That's why this is such a great place, cause we try to help each other, to the best of our ability.
LML

Sorry Slick, but I've bred plenty of Sea Greens and they are a sex linked mutation. A pure normal red faced cock cannot give you any sea green hens. If the cock were split for sea green you would produce around 50% sea greens but these would be both hens and cocks.

I beg to differ. If a cock is split for a sex linked gene, then he can only produce visual hens and normal hens and normal and split cocks.