I found a picture of a sky violet and it looks just like Lexi. Or is she a light cobalt?

This is actual colour and not flushed out by the camera. So, is she a cobalt or sky violet. If she is a sky violet could Skye be split to mauve and marigold violet bred. Just wanted to know. :question:

Opalines make it very difficult to judge because in regular birds sky violets can look almost identical to normal cobalts, but are easily distinguished by the tails (teal/turqoise for sky blues, solid navy blue for cobalts). However with opalines, not only does the opaline change the shade of blue and violet to a more pastel tone, it also chops the tail up with varying amounts of white and body colour making distinction by tail alone almost impossible.

 

It comes down to experience, breeding outcomes or having other birds of the same mutation in each colour (eg normal sky blue and cobalt opalines, violet sky blue opaline and violet cobalt opaline).

Hmmm.. my breeding expections were normals, greens, blues and maybe violet. I didn't know my birds had mauve in them. Or opaline, for that matter.

Edited April 9, 201015 yr by Ratzy

Peronally to me she looks like a cobalt but I am no expert.

 

If she is a sky violet could Skye be split to mauve and marigold violet bred. Birds are not split to mauve there are 3 types of blues with dark factors. If you have a sky blue the bird has zero dark factors, a cobalt is a bird with 1 dark factor and a mauve is a bird with 2 dark factors.

 

So if the bird above is a sky violet she would have zero dark factors and would never produce a mauve because even is she was bred to a mauve all the babies would turn out to be cobalt (each with inherit 1 dark factor from the mauve bird)

I'm thinking cobalt, as both parents have 1 dark factor.

she looks cobalt to me as well Elly

I'm thinking cobalt, as both parents have 1 dark factor.

 

If both parents are cobalts then there is a 50% chance of another cobalt, 25% sky blue and 25% mauve.

One parent was dark green, one cobalt. I got, 50% green, 25%mauve and I think this bird is the 25% cobalt.

From a dark green split blue paired to a cobalt you would expect:

 

12.5% Light green, 25% Dark Green, 12.5% Olive

12.5% Sky blue, 25% Cobalt, 12.5% Mauve

 

So in a clutch of 8 you could expect 1 light green, 2 dark greens, 1 olive green, 1 sky blue, 2 cobalts and 1 mauve (mathematical probabilities at least).

Thanks, so there is a chance for sky? As I think SKye is split violet.

Yes there is a chance but I still think cobalt personally that is my opinion though.

Why do you think sky violet? Kaz, would know best she seems to have a knack for picking them out . You may want to ask her to review this thread.

She has a violet tinge on her, hard to see.

She has a violet tinge on her, hard to see.

 

That violet tinge usually turns out to be an area of deeper blue around the neck/shoulders and is actually quite common in normal cobalts. People often jump to the conlcusion that it must be violet showing up in a tiny area. I would say she is a cobalt also, especially if she has the darker feathering around her neck/shoulders as violet skies usually have a very well distributed colouring.

I agree with Dean here. Don't forget peoples this bird is still in nest feather! It makes a difference. The real colour will be evident after the moult. For now thOUGH I reckon it is a Cobalt.