hi

I recently did some research on mutations and got a little confused about dilutes and greywings.

They seem pretty much the same except for the level of dilution, so couls they be factors of each other?

Like, greywing is single factor because it produces the least dilution and dilute be double factor beacuse

it produces the most diution.

 

Sort of like spangle, how single factor sort of hollows out marking and bodycolour

and double factor completly removes them.

 

just throwin it out there, but hey, mabye im a genius

We have a good explanation of a grewwing vs a dilute in the FAQ of our website along with a good picture to help figure it out, it doesn't work like the spangle gene but good thought.

We have a good explanation of a grewwing vs a dilute in the FAQ of our website along with a good picture to help figure it out, it doesn't work like the spangle gene but good thought.

 

 

Sorry Elly but that article contains some information which way off the mark. The Dilute for example, saying colour is diluted by 5-95%. That's a *** of a range of dilution by any stretch of the imagination. A dilution for example of 5% would put the bird looking almost normal and darker than a Greywing!

 

You provide a couple of pix also. The first one you mention in the article about the blue strip on the wing as though this is related to the subject matter. That blue strip you are talking about is called a 'wing mirror'and is a trait in Psittacine species carrying the Opaline locus. The blue in the center of the tail and spreading outwards is also and Opaline trait.

 

You also mention in the article Continental Clearflights. I congratulate you on saying that they and Dutch Pieds are one and the same. What I do have a problem with is that you say and I quote "The clearflight (also known as continental clearflight or Dutch Dominant Pied) is a pied, and the flights and tail will be white. If the tail is not white, the bird is not a clearflight." This is so not right. These birds often have normal coloured tails. White or yellow tails is more likely to found in Aussie Dom Pieds.

 

I think this article needs to be seriously looked at and revised. It is my understanding that fthis orum is trying to make sure the correct information is deseminated. Just recently there was a post on misinformation on web sites. Are we putting this forum into that category!

 

Please don't take any of what I have said personally as it is not meant to be. I am doing my bit to help correct mistakes.

Edited May 15, 201015 yr by RIPbudgies