Fire finches

[Diane]

Same kind of question as the parrot finch topic

Red fire finch x with pink fire finch

What is the outcome? Should the colours be kept separate?

[Jayburd]

just as with the parrot finches, both the above birds are the same species. They'll (obviously) therefore breed.
I would imaging you'd get a combination of both colours, and splits.

[Pete Sara]

Well here is my opinion , as I have had fires for a while and I had pink ones and normals . Before i moved to this house i had just normals and got rid of them to make room to move.To cut things short i finally got another pair but didn't realise the hen was pink. The male was a pure normal and wasn't split for anything as it was a offspring of my original pairs.So had a mixed pair ,there first two clutches all the males were pink and the hens normals. So i paired pink boys to pink girls and got all pinks
and got no splits from them ... pete

[toothlessjaws]

is the pink mutation the same mutation that graham bull of www.aussiefinchbreeder.com calls "cinnamon"?

[finchbreeder]

From the breeding results you list Pete it would seem that pinks are sex linked. So Diane what ever pink you have you will get pinks of the opposite sex. Graham Bulls article lists the common types of Ruddies as normal, pink and cinnamon so pink and cinnamon are different mutations. Anyone got a pic or 3?
LML

[southy]

Pink ruddies (fire finches) are recessive
Therefore if you put a pink either sex with a normal you will get splits (normal looking carrying pink genes)

[finchbreeder]

????????????????? 2 answers that contradict each other. Don't you love genetics. I do so going to go trawling the net for info.
LML