Given the red eyes I was just wondering if a fallow is related to an albino? (in much the same way that lacewing is a variation on albino) Are fallows a good option to breed to an albino?

Both birds are from the "ino" gene... albino and lutino being full ino's and fallow being Par-ino (gene which alters the pigmentation of the bird)

I wouldn't necessarily say they're a good pair... it'll just throw more genes into the mix that you probably will have trouble breeding out of.

Others may have a better answer but I googled it because I wanted to know myself, I can across this website that is very interesting because there are actually 3 types of fallows not just 1. http://www.geocities.com/fallowbudgies/hug...tm#IntroHugbook and http://www.geocities.com/fallowbudgies/library1.htm

 

The way I see it it can not be related to the ino gene because this resides on the x chromosome and is sex-linked, fallow is a recessive gene which lays on a different allele and is not sex-linked. The reason why lacewing is related to ino is because this is a cross of 2 sex-linked genes. I don't see why you could not have a Fallow that is also a Lacewing because both the genes are on different alleles and one is sex-linked and one is not. Make sense? But I see where you are saying how about cinnamon since the fallow marking are brown.

 

adding...doing further googling my assumation above was partiall correct..

 

Genetics:

The Fallow is actually a mutation of a Green/Blue Budgie that had dark brown wavy design on a golden yellow background. The rest of the bird was olive yellow, the eyes were dark red and the legs were pink. This description shows that their is only a small difference between Fallow and Cinnamon. The Fallows brown is darker than the Cinnamon. Fallows have one easily distinguishable feature, namely their dark red eyes. The red is darker than that of the Albino and Lutino. The hereditary factor for Fallow is recessive to the factors of normal Budgies. That means, you lose the features of the Fallow when you cross them with other colour variants. To describe the Fallow factor we can compare it with Albino and Lutino. With the latter, it is a case of an absent melanin factor, the one that produces pigment. The melanin factor is double, it consists of black and dark brown pigment. Switching to Fallows, in their case there is a color change in the melanin, where the black is apparently pushed aside by the brown. The recessive Fallow factor is not sex-linked.

to read all genetic information and predication click here http://www3.sympatico.ca/davehansen/fallow.html

Edited May 5, 200817 yr by Elly