Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 1:27 am Post subject: Mutation question
I have paired a normal Green Red Fronted Male (parents were both normals) with a Red eyed Lutino Female Red Fronted.
What should I get?
In the nest, there is a normal green male and two females that look like Cinnamons. Is this normal or are there some split Cinnamon genes that came out from somewhere?
What will happen if I pair one of the female babies with a Pied Male? Any ideas.
Allen,
I have long believed that the "red eyed" yellow mutation in Kakariki is in fact not Lutino. Your mating helps prove that theory. My thoughts are that the red eyed yellow is a combination of the cinnamon, fallow and black eyed yellow mutations.
The reason these birds have a red eye is because of the fallow mutation.
If I am correct fallow is recessive which means unless the cock bird is split to fallow none of the babies will display the red eye but would be split to the mutation as the hen is obviously carrying fallow.
Cinnamon is sex linked so if you have coloured young this would suggest that the cock bird is in fact split to cinnamon. If this is correct the cinnamon young could be either cocks or hens.
Hope this helps.
Looking at Allen's pics in the gallery I tend to believe his Lutinos are true Lutinos.
Depending on wich kind of pied (dominant or recessive) I think a combination with a Cinnamon female can vary from green over green with minor pied markings to normal pieds.
All the males will be split to Cinnamon.
Peter,
I can understand what you are getting to but I am now a bit confused as to how cinnamon would be found in a true Lutino bird. Cinnamon is sex linked so it would mean the cock bird Allen used is either split to cinnamon or the hen is carrying the cinnamon gene.
The only way to truly discover the make up of the Lutino bird is to mate it to a normal bird that can not be split to any mutation. The easiest way to do that is mate a Lutino cock to a normal hen.
Is it not possible that the eye colour (and iris) could be altered by the make up of the various mutations. I have a pair of cinnamon birds which are bred from my black eyed yellows. The cock bird has a normal red iris whilst the hen has a clear black eye. The young bird we are currently hand raising from this pair has a red eye which seems that it may be retained. It will be interesting to see whether the iris develops as the chick develops.
I like to discuss this question. To my knowledge there is only 1 dominant factor: dom. pied. When you pair a green male (split for nothing) to a recessive mutation, all the chicks are normal green and split for the recessive mutation.
There are many discussion about the lutino question which we can't answer before we pair them to pure greens. When you pair the chicks of this pair with eachother (brotherx sister) all possible combination will appear and by calculating it is possible to make some suggestions about the origin of the mutation of the parent.
But the biggest problem here in europe is to get pure greens. The pairing of Allen is a green male split for cinnamon. That means half of the young females are cinnamon and half of the males are split for cinnamon; but you can't see which male.
The young green hens are not split for cinnamon, but can carry a recessive mutation.
So get pure greens and keep them pure for this kind of pairings
A while ago I saw a bird wich looked like a Cinnamon from a distance. When I looked closer I saw he had red eyes. The owner assured me it was a fallow.
Usualy a fallow is lighter in appearance than a Cinnamon but this one was identical.
It seems that Cinnamons have a verry light brown suffusion on the top of the green feathers wich this Fallow didn't had. So, maybe this is a trick to distinguish the two mutations.
Another question I ask myself concerning Lutino, Cinnamon, Fallow and Pieds is that they are all known as melanin altering mutations.
But why is there so much difference in bodycolour between the pale Lutino and Black eyed clear? And why is a combination of Lutino and Black eyed clear suddenly not so pale? Is it the pied gene(s) that alter(s) the yellow and red psittacofulvins?
The cinnamon babies do seem to be a little bit brighter (yellower) than my other existing "normal" cinnamon birds. It may of course just be because they are young and in fine feather that they look brighter.
Of the three chicks, there is a definite male green and a definite female cinnamon, the other cinnamon first looked like a female but it's beak is getting bigger so it clould be male.
I have a single male pied that I have had for a few months. Any ideas what the value would be of pairing it with the female cinnamon. I may well pair the brother and sister together just to see what happens.
The cinnamon babies do seem to be a little bit brighter (yellower) than my other existing "normal" cinnamon birds. It may of course just be because they are young and in fine feather that they look brighter.
Of the three chicks, there is a definite male green and a definite female cinnamon, the other cinnamon first looked like a female but it's beak is getting bigger so it clould be male.
I have a single male pied that I have had for a few months. Any ideas what the value would be of pairing it with the female cinnamon. I may well pair the brother and sister together just to see what happens.
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