My dominant pied cinnamon opaline split greywing hen and a skyblue violet spangle split greywing (and other stuff) cock have had a clutch of five. I'm taking it the first two are pieds, second one (white baby in the middle) seems to be blue and what would you say maybe a greywing? Since there still not much colour on him anywhere...?

 

I know some of you are really experts in telling the exact colour in a very early stage, any ideas in this case?

 

 

Bigger big can be seen here.

 

Here are the parents:

White down indicates an opaline chick.

White down indicates an opaline chick.

I thought it did but in this case the father hasn't had opaline in it's line for generations, but it can happen though, that he is split opaline even if had been hidden for years. So I guess then spangle opalines should not be a rarity in this clutch either, as both the parents carry the opaline gene, wonderful!

So I've found out that not only opalines but also greywings and inos for example have white fluff. Grey fluff goes hand in hand with normal, spangle and dominant pied, at least, but only when they're not mixed with some other (above mentioned) mutation.

 

It's not totally impossible that the father of this clutch had the opaline gene though, it's just that he's mother didn't have it and his father has had 11 chicks with no opalines amongst them - but we'll see! I'd really love some opaline spangles!

So I've found out that not only opalines but also greywings and inos for example have white fluff. Grey fluff goes hand in hand with normal, spangle and dominant pied, at least, but only when they're not mixed with some other (above mentioned) mutation.

 

It's not totally impossible that the father of this clutch had the opaline gene though, it's just that he's mother didn't have it and his father has had 11 chicks with no opalines amongst them - but we'll see! I'd really love some opaline spangles!

My pair threw an albino and it never had white fuzz, ....all i know is that opaline has white fuzz, wether theirs more i'm not sure :rofl:

Oh well, I guess it might have been that all those ino chick's pictures I was looking at were possible ino opalines... So my mistake. Really just recently started paying attention to this white/grey down thing and all I know, it's not just opalines trait.