Aussie Finch Forum

i honestly cant decide weather this hen is a red or yellow head. personally im more on the yellow side of things but would like your opinions.



ive also included pics of her mum who has a similar thing with her head like as if it has a yellow lining around the red.

so what does everyone think??

Because they are yellows I would go redhead but could be wrong.
LML

Red head, beak is red not yellow. Yellow head always has yellow beak.

It is a red-head but given the small amount of red & its broken expression if it was a normal red-head it would be one with black mottling all through the red area. Should be culled if you have any regard for the amount of red on the head of your hens (and their young).

Tiaris wrote:It is a red-head but given the small amount of red & its broken expression if it was a normal red-head it would be one with black mottling all through the red area.

Well mum and dad were both split black head, could that be the result of how the red with black mottling happens except in yellow back??

I don't think you can get a split black-headed hen.

Well I don't know how that's possible because their other daughter is a black head.

If the father is split black, that's sufficient with the sex-linked gene to produce red & black hens.

Oh now I see, thankgod for that.

Black is sex-linked recessive to red so when the male carries the black gene you don't need any further genetic input from the mother to produce some black hen offspring. With sex-linked genes a split is only possible in males.