| Title: | Captive Breeding for Conservation--and FUN! |
| Notice: | INTROS 6.X / FOR SALE 13.X / Buying a Bird 900.* |
| Moderator: | VIDEO::PULSIFER |
| Created: | Mon Oct 10 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 942 |
| Total number of notes: | 6016 |
I have two normal green peach-faced lovebirds that have just produced
three entirely different chicks...one is a lutino (yellow), one appears
to be normal (to soon to tell if it is a pied...yellow/white feathers
will start on the wings if it is)....and one that baffles me--it has
white down instead of yellow/orange, but does have dark eyes. Anybody
want to offer information or an opinion on what this little one will
turn out to be? I am guessing a Dutch blue mutation..... /Linda
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 472.1 | Blue it is! | CLOSET::COMPTON | Linda DTN381-0687 ZKO1-2/C21 | Wed Feb 06 1991 18:06 | 10 |
The chick did turn out to be a Dutch blue....other hens have produced
chicks now with white down.....at least now I know what they'll be!
The orange fuzz chicks are green...still to come is how to tell the
normal greens from the dark factor greens!! The lutinos and creaminos
are easy...they have red eyes that can be seen right as soon as they
hatch...and I've learned by now that the red-eyed babies with white
down are the creaminos....the red-eyed babies with orange fuzz are the
lutinos! I'll be raising some color mutation black-masked lovebirds
soon.....wonder what their chicks will look like? Guess maybe this
should really have been in note 457, a breeder's log,....../Linda
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