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Male gouldian, lilac breast???
Posted: 23 Jan 2012, 22:46
by venetta
We bought a pair of split blue gouldians on the weekend and the boys breast is quite pale in comparison to others..
Do you think he is a lilac breast and we've just gotten lucky, or could it be wishful thinking??
Here he is next to the other SFYB male in the aviary...
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This is his backside..
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And this is him next to his blackheaded girlfriend..
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Suggestions as to what is happening if he's not lilac breast??
Re: Male gouldian, lilac breast???
Posted: 23 Jan 2012, 23:22
by natamambo
Looks lilac to me. If you like the lilac you'll need a wb or another lilac for the hen.
Re: Male gouldian, lilac breast???
Posted: 23 Jan 2012, 23:25
by venetta
As I was discussing with someone before, is a female lilac just even lighter than usual????
Re: Male gouldian, lilac breast???
Posted: 23 Jan 2012, 23:37
by Misso
venetta wrote:As I was discussing with someone before, is a female lilac just even lighter than usual????
il take a photo tomorrow(today) of a gouldian hen i suspect may be a lilac chest. she is very very light in the chest.
Re: Male gouldian, lilac breast???
Posted: 24 Jan 2012, 08:26
by djb78
Looks very similar to my lilac breasted cock only mine has a GB, I've put mine up with a white breast but not by my choice so hoping to see some lilac babies.
Re: Male gouldian, lilac breast???
Posted: 24 Jan 2012, 13:18
by AMCA26
This seems to be popping up a bit. I reckon i have some Lilac in the Blues i bought for last season. Definately can see the difference in some of the chests.
Re: Male gouldian, lilac breast???
Posted: 24 Jan 2012, 14:14
by Diane
Makes you wonder...I have a YH PC/w GB hen normal colour purple on the chest. Paired with a split blue cock bird and some of the hens chests are really pale.
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Re: Male gouldian, lilac breast???
Posted: 24 Jan 2012, 15:47
by AMCA26
He is very light on the chest. I only seem to have it on a couple of Hens. Lucky everything this season is WB to PB/WB pairings anyway for me.
Re: Male gouldian, lilac breast???
Posted: 24 Jan 2012, 16:37
by Diane
The cock bird is a normal purple and all the cocks produced are normal, just the hens have the difference.
Just been out and took a few more pics.
The cock at the bottom of the pic is the father of all the other birds in this pic. The hens are sisters from a pairing with one hen, the young cock had a different mother. She can be seen in the nesting box he is stood on, she is a split blue and has a normal coloured chest.
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Same two hens again, same young cock on box 16. The not quite coloured up cock on box 15 is brother to the young cock on box 16
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Father and daughters hatched from the same clutch when paired with a YH PC/w GB hen (1st pic in a my previous post.)
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The young cocks haven't got any full sisters, and the hens haven't got any full brothers so I have nothing to compare them to.
Cant get over the difference in the chest colour.
Re: Male gouldian, lilac breast???
Posted: 25 Jan 2012, 10:51
by finchbreeder
Is there any way the cock could be split white breast? And the girls be poor white breasteds? Just thinking here.
LML