if one was to breed a full body greywing to a diluted greywing(I know no such thing) what would the off spring be?

would you get 50/50 or none.. or all full bodies ect.?

full body greywings are the greywing gene and the clearwing gene combined.

 

you will get some greywings (diluted body colour)

and some fully body greywings

 

I think the ratio would be 50/50

That's a good question Dingo.

 

Referencing your other thread about DF dominant pieds, I can tell you the two full-bodied greywing normals that I got came from a type 2 yellowface australian variegated pied hen and a type 2 goldenface dominant pied dilute opaline clearflight cock. They both must have been split to greywing. I can also surmise at least one of them carried the violet factor, as I got 2 visual violets and a light lavender/blue dilute also. Not knowing what stock they came from, I have no way of knowing their heritage.

 

There is such thing as a dilute greywing, but I think of that term as describing two different types and both are better described in other terms than dilute greywing. The first is just called a dilute as the body color and wing color is usually diluted by the same percentage, and if very light it is hard to call whether the bird is greywing or diluted normal. The second is a normal greywing, which has a 50% dilution of the wings and of the body. The 50% dilution is actually not a light grey, but a medium grey, with more of an actual medium grey color than a light greyish-white color. In this case, the term dilute greywing is redundant, and the dilute part can be left out. Many birds are called greywings when they in fact are not, they are poorly marked clearwings instead. I have read from many different sources that it is very difficult to breed a well marked clearwing, as the flight feathers have a high likelihood of coming out a very pale, washed out grey. I think there are many birds that are mistakenly called greywings.

 

I do not know what percentages you would get from your greywing/full bodied greywing cross so I will go with nerwen on this one. But I am curious now. Maybe we can get nerwen to look in her genetics bible.

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Nerwen, if you get a chance??....pretty please?