Hi , okay I have a yellow opaline pied cock bird with cinnamon markings , he is paired to an olive green hen . Two youngsters are feathering up , the first a gorgeous yellow pied no cinnamon markings , the second which I'd like to know about is a cinnamon pied but its blue , sort of cobalt looking atm , probably know better in a few days . I dont know much about genetics , does this mean that the yellow pied is split for blue ? Any help would be appreciated , thanks

 

Hopefully this will post , tried to post some pics in the photo section but either gave me a forbidden message or a message saying the site was being worked on ?

if he is visually showing the mutation he is not split for it it means he has it (if that makes sense) split means having the gene but it now showing

 

the baby that you have that is a cinnamon would be a female since it is a sex linked gene. Females can not be split for any sex linked genes since they only have 1 x gene and 1 y gene (yes opposite of humans). BUT females can be split for recessive genes.

 

Make sense?

Sorry , I meant the father , he is a yellow opaline pied cinammon . Its the offspring being a blue cinnamon , does that mean the father is split blue

both are split to blue since they are both green based birds yep

Great thanks