I see some "natural" pairings forming amongst my birds -well at least a definate preference. None are old enough to breed so no worries about me adding nesting boxes and there is no real breeding behaviour with so many sharing the big cage. But when the time comes...

 

So far it seems Sylvester is interested in Puddin. Sylvester is a Yf2 dilute (or goldenface, he is more green than blue) and Puddin' is an opaline cobalt (sometimes I think violet because she shows so much)

 

Tweety, my sky opaline dilute has the eye of Tazzy, a recessive pied violet cinammon.

 

And Wylie, my goldenface, is interested in Daffodil, an opaline clearflight pied.

 

I have no idea what any of them are split for as they all came from petshops. So what do you think the possible outcomes of these pairs would be?

Edited June 12, 200619 yr by Shawna

Wylie isn't a golden face, he is bluer than my Arkady who is a YF2.

Are you sure Sylvester is a YF and not a dilute green?

If Sylvester is a YF then:

Half your babies will be YF

If he is a green then Half or all of your babies will be green.

All the males will be split for opaline., but none will BE opaline

Half or none of your babies will be dilute

Half of your babies will be cobalt and half sky blue (if Sylvester is a YF)

If he is a light green then you will get cobalts, skys, light greens and dark greens (depending on whether he is DF green)

No spangles.

 

For the next pair, Tweety and Tazzy:

Combining the violets and dark factors:

If Tazzy is single factor violet and Tweety does not carry any violet, same ratios for your previous pair too (possibly, depending on whetherpuddin would have violet))

50% sky blue

25% cobalt

25% violets

You will get half or none recessive pieds

Your female babies wil be cinnamons

Half or none will be dilute.

 

For your third pair:

Yiou will get all or half greens.

For the blues that you have it will be hard to say whether they will be yellow face or not as we don't know what daffodil is hiding, but you should expect at least half to be YF2.

Half or all of your babies will be clearflight pied.

None of your babies will be opaline but your males will be split for it.

You wont get any spangles in any of those pairs.

And any recessive genes such as ino, fallow, cinnamon etc could show up in any of your pairs.

Hope that helps.