Hi,

I have a breeding pair of an all yellow with red eyes hen, and a normal green cock.

They have just produced a baby, which unexpectedly to me was a white and blue pied!

How did that happen? I though it might be either just green like the cock or a crappy army green colour. How is it possible to get a white pied with blue through it from such a pair?

What is the liklihood of getting this type of baby again. I love it, it's the kewlest baby I have ever bred!!! It's name is 'Baby pied'... original right?

the pied is a recessive pied which means that you can put down in your breeding records that both of these birds are carrying the recessive pied gene. Also you can add that both your birds are split for blue.

 

So this baby received 1 blue gene from each parent and 1 recessive pied gene from each parent which created a Blue Recessive Pied.

 

If you breed this pair again you have a 25% chance.

 

Pretty in my signature is a recessived pied skyblue

I agree with what Elly said...

 

but also, I just like to add other possibilities to the equations.

 

Not knowing what your baby look like except that it's a blue pied...

here are some other possibilities of why you got the baby.

 

The hen could be masking dominant pied which gives you 50% of getting pied if paired with a normal bird. And also both birds could be split for blue, unless of course, by yellow red eye hen you mean a yellowface albino, which also known as creamino is a yellow red eye bird that isnt as brilliant in yellow as the lutino. Which in this case means that she's a blue series birds, which means that the dad in split for blue and the mum is in fact a blue bird.

 

Oh also, if it's a recessive pied, the mom could very well be a lutino recessive pied (but the lutino gene mask the pied gene so you can't tell). The ino gene basically mask everything that a bird has except for cinnamon, that's when they have brown wing markings with only white or yellow on them.

Excellent points Cheeta there are so many variables to genetics and we have a great team here that when 1 doesn't think of it another does. High 5

wonderful work guys! You both make me proud :sad:

Edited May 4, 200718 yr by Nerwen

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