Aussie Finch Forum

Painteds come in red and yellow.
Has anyone ever come across a yellow Firefinch/Ruddie ??
Woody

Woody wrote:Painteds come in red and yellow.
Has anyone ever come across a yellow Firefinch/Ruddie ??
Woody

Hi Woody,i have seen a rusty coloured one,ugly looking thing but nothing came of it.I think the AF only has two mutations,pink (fawn) and pied in Australia. Craig

I believe "rusty orange" ones were recorded and bred by Edward Boosey of the Keston Foreign Bird Farm in 1959.
Foreign Bird Keeping 1962 p22.

Thank you guys.
It appears I have a "yellow/orange" hen colouring up, will know for sure in a couple of weeks time.
Was hoping to get a cock bird and see where it leads to.

Congratulations. Look forward to hearing what happens in the future.
LML

Woody wrote:Thank you guys.
It appears I have a "yellow/orange" hen colouring up, will know for sure in a couple of weeks time.
Was hoping to get a cock bird and see where it leads to.

A hen with colour sounds strange...Hens have very little colour on them...if its colouring up on body more inclined to think it is male...

I have a hen with who is a richer brown a has a band of pinkish hue across the chest. prior to getting this hen i had only kept cinnamon ruddies so I was unsure as to whether or not this is normal or if i just have a particularly good hen. I managed to find the below pic online, and whilst my hen is nothing like this in terms of red she definitely has a faint infusion of pink which i had never seen on any of my hens before.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... ground.jpg

anyone else seen much of this? she has good spotting too...

That's a young cock. You can tell by the yellow eye ring.

The pair of chicks I just bred from my cock and a hen I got from Woody (is she out of the same avairy as the yellow girl?) are definately not the same (sex) but both have more red than the mum and, so far, less than the dad. There is infine minor differences.
LML

Tiaris wrote:That's a young cock. You can tell by the yellow eye ring.

thanks Tiaris. my mistake.