Posted July 31, 200717 yr Had a bit of a surprise when they feathered up. 2 normal greys and this little fella- he is very light coloured and I would say greywing although he is very very light in 'person' Mum is cinnamon violet opaline and dad is Grey
July 31, 200717 yr What was the pairing? For Greywing both the birds must be split greywing or be a greywing. He maybe cinnamon skyblue. The body colouring is light which could be caused by the cinnamon gene.
July 31, 200717 yr Author no- def not cinnamon, he is pale grey and the markings are pale grey too. Not sure of the splits- dad is a SthAus KK bird dont know parents- mum is also unknown Just thought I'd throw the picture up as it surprised me and we did talk about the pairing earlier.
July 31, 200717 yr Maybe my screen the baby looking at the monitor looks like an normal mauve? The cheek patches look blue not grey. To have the greywing gene both parents would need to be split for the gene or of course be a greywing themselves. Do you have a picture of the front of him? If his coloring is bright but light he would be a fullbody greywing if not then he could be 1. a greywing or 2 a dilute or 3. even maybe a clearwing if the body is light bright because his markings are very light. I would wait to till feathers up a bit more and certainly more pics up of him front and back . Gorgeous babies.
July 31, 200717 yr Having had a full nest of dilutes, I would say your baby looks dilute to me Definitely NOT cinnamon
August 1, 200717 yr Author yep Kaz looks like a dilute- but not knowing how the dilute gene worked properly I just said greywing(works the same hey? different outcome?). Elly his colour you can see on his rump- pale grey like the rest of him, I shall try for another picture for you The other two are just 'mini dads'!! **photos added Edited August 1, 200717 yr by the pie
August 2, 200717 yr Here is a nestful of dilutes for you. There were five in that nest. Cheeta has one and Feathers has one of them too.
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