Opinions On Mutation

[Neville 0]

I would like members opinions on this bird's mutation. He is not what I expected

 

 

 

[Squeak_Crumble 0]

Are the wings cinnamon? My first thought was clearbody. But if the wings are cinnamon (from the looks of the photo?) it may be a cinnamon clearbody? And opaline of course. Or possibly a cinnamon opaline with some type of suffusion?

[splat 0]

I can't see the cinnamon on my screen, but he does look like a opaline clearbody, but his flights look to dark.

[*Nerwen* 0]

SInce this is Nev asking I thinking it isn't a normal mutation. My first thought Clearbody as well.

The body looks quite dilute but the markings aren't....could he have a darkwing modifier?

Edited December 21, 2010 by *Nerwen*

[**KAZ** 0]

What colour are the eyes ? If red, is it a fallow ?

[rachelm 0]

My first thought was fallow but he has a blue cere, so it can't be.

Edited December 22, 2010 by rachelm

[**KAZ** 0]

My first thought was fallow but he has a blue cere, so it can't be.

AHA !! Forgot about that

[Dave_McMinn 0]

Wings do not looks cinnamon and his eyes look black to me

[Dean_NZ 0]

Wings look cinnamon in some pics, but not in others. I have some VERY dark cinnamons myself, typically the flecked ones are darker (or one might say the dark ones are flecked ). A cinnamon opaline mutation combination could easily explain the pale patchy colour.

 

But then some sort of clearbody could be in the mix. If you bred him yourself it should of course be evident in the parents, or at least the hen unless she is masking it?

[Neville 0]

The reason I posted the pictures was because I think he looks like a texas clearbody and I wondered if others would think so too. He is opaline cinnamon but his wing markings are very dark and in some lighting the body colour is hardly visible. His father was a sky blue opaline cinnamon & his mother was a grey opaline cinnamon dominant pied. To be a male of a sex-linked mutation like clearbody he would need to have inherited the mutation from both parents

Edited December 22, 2010 by Neville

[*Nerwen* 0]

So it was something simple. very easy to work out when you know the parentage.

Edited December 22, 2010 by *Nerwen*

[RIPbudgies 0]

There was none of the usual indications that Texas Clearbody was involved in this bird. I have seen this before in Opalines but in the green series only and never combined with Cinnamon. Opalines can cause patchy colour in my early days I saw fair few that were patchy around the chest area and this corresponded with just a general lack of colour all over but not to this extent. What you will find has happened is that there was a transcription error of the Opaline locus and it could be a one off or something new. Maybe an allele of Opaline who knows.