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I have had white breasted and purple breasted gouldians colour up this season and where the black is under their beak there is patches of white. One black headed white breast female is all white under her beak and black from the beak up. does any one know where this comes from. Is it a split to yellow?

Yes,they are split to Australian yellow. Craig

Thanks Craig. Any suggestion what i am best to cross it with. would like to explore other colours i have a pastel YH PB male. Thinking about him or maybe buying a yellow male.

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Thanks Craig. Any suggestion what i am best to cross it with. would like to explore other colours i have a pastel YH PB male. Thinking about him or maybe buying a yellow male.

She is one of the better marked i have seen,nice bird.I think you better read up on gouldian mutations as not all yellow gouldian mutations are the same mutation.
You are better off trying to source an Australian yellow back cock bird to put with her from a AYB breeder. Cheers Craig

Thanks Craig very helpful.

Are the two birds with the white spots both female? Are the two birds with white spots siblings?
LML

We have actually had 3. In my husbands aviary he had a RH PB male colour up with a small patch of white under his beak like a goatee. The next season in a separate aviary I had 2 WB 1 YH male (pictured) and 1 BH female (pictured in previous post) .Those 2 could be related but the purple breasted is not related. So we didn't know what was going on , we have never had this happen before.

We have had 3 all up now. Last season my husband got a RH PB male in his aviary colour up with a small bit of white under his beak. This season in my aviary i got 2 WB 1 was a YH male and 1 was a BH female. they could be related back a little but the PB male is not related. Previous to this we had never seen this before.

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We have had 3 all up now. Last season my husband got a RH PB male in his aviary colour up with a small bit of white under his beak. This season in my aviary i got 2 WB 1 was a YH male and 1 was a BH female. they could be related back a little but the PB male is not related. Previous to this we had never seen this before.

I read FB is on to something in her post,you can pr up the RH PB male to the BH female to produce some stunning white headed Australian Yellow backs.You will need to pr these birds up on their own though.Keep us posted. Cheers Craig

I'd be pairing her to the YH cock rather than the RH one as the hen has a yellow-bill & so is also YH (under the black). This pairing should give half BH & half YH progeny in both sexes if the YH cock is split to BH. If he is pure YH they would produce all YH with the young males being split BH & the hens all just YH.
If you use the RH cock there are 4 possibilities which his head colour genotype could be & most of these would produce a complete mishmash of young many of whom with unknown head colour genotypes.