I'm bad with colours and I need some help please. Is this chick light green or dark green?

Also, what colour is his mother?

Mother of chick

This is his mother and father. Father is split yellowface.

hmmmm... this is a tough one

 

i think the baby is a dark green

is it just me or is there blue feathers through its chest?

 

i think the mum is a grey-green of some form?

 

thats my guess sorry rachelm if im not much help =]

The chick is a dark green (1 dark factor) and the mother is an olive (2 dark factors).

Olives have dark blue/purple cheek patches and black-blue tails.

Agree with Elly. Chick is a Dark Green, mum an Olive Green (Opaline, too) and dad is a Light Green.

Thank you A-B, Elly and Jen. The chick does have lots of blue feathers around vent also. I appreciate your help

Definitely a light green father, dark green baby and olive green mother.

 

The mother and father will only ever produce dark greens when paired together.

Definitely a light green father, dark green baby and olive green mother.

 

The mother and father will only ever produce dark greens when paired together.

Cheers Dean

Definitely a light green father, dark green baby and olive green mother.

 

The mother and father will only ever produce dark greens when paired together.

 

And I would love that. Love dark greens - your chick is gorgeous!

I am however, interested in knowing how you get olive from the mother. Not that I am questioning she is olive, she looks grey green to me and I would just like to know the difference to for my own knowledge (I have a hard time with dark greens/olives/grey greens etc.....)

Edited November 12, 201014 yr by Sunnie

Mother is actually a cinnamon opaline olive.

ohh... thats what put me off !

 

as i guessed grey-green ^^^^ up there,

as i thought the green was to light to be olive, as olive is usually a more pungent colour

but the cinnamon lightened the chest feathers, making me think it was an odd sort of grey-green

 

got it... yep i agree with everyone else now

 

but i was right with the first one, the dark green chick...wooh

 

 

You won't get a grey green unless one of the parents is carrying the grey gene and it in most cases is dominant very rare to see the recessive grey gene. You may get cobalts or mauves but only if both parents are split to the blue gene.