Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:47 am Post subject: Fallow pied?
We have a chick in the nest that appears to be quite an unusual colour.
It has bright red eyes (not plum eyes as in a cinnamon). At first sight, it looks like a buttercup/lutino although it has green feathers between the wings that are the same colour as a cinnamon or fallow. Siblings are normal pieds and cinnamon pieds.
Parents are a normal pied cock (90% pied) and a cinnamon pied hen (95% pied). The cock is certainly split for a few things and the hen may be as well.
Our first thoughts are that it is a fallow pied. Any ideas?
If both parents have that amount of pied it probably is a pied. To my knowledge Fallow is the only mutation that causes bright red eyes. So it might be a Fallow pied. I'm looking forward to a photo.
Thanks. Looks like a cock bird so we'll now have to look for a hen to go with him. We bred a fallow cock a couple of years ago and are still looking for a hen!
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