They breed based on environmental cues. One of the cues is an increasing amount of daylight so you can see breeding activity as early as January in the northern hemisphere and it can last through April.
Jim
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- Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:11 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Breeding Season In the States?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 601
- Thu Oct 09, 2008 7:49 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Genetics - ???Pastel Blue sex-linked cockbird???
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2151
I don't think he's a pallid either. My guess is that he's a blue cinnamon and that the picture, taken in bright overhead sunlight, is making it hard to see the darker markings on his wingtips. If he were dilute, I don't see how you'd get the lighter colored baby unless the female were split for dilu...
- Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:06 am
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Do IRN breed more than once a season
- Replies: 1
- Views: 625
Double and even triple clutching in a season is possible but it usually only happens if you pull the eggs shortly after they are laid and incubate them artificially or foster them with another set of parents. In your case, another clutch from the birds you are getting is probably unlikely this seaso...
- Mon Sep 29, 2008 7:19 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: UPDATE: Please HELP... Jibs emergency and psycho Lola!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1195
I'm sorry to hear things aren't going well. Eggs can sometimes hatch later than expected if the temperature was a little low or if the hen didn't start sitting on them until a couple of days after they were laid. However, if the eggs were viable it would be pretty obvious at this point when you cand...
- Fri Sep 26, 2008 10:38 am
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Breeding Age
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1626
A female hatched in 2007 will probably be ready to breed in 2009. Some males are ready in 2 years but some need another year. A couple of people have told me that they've had success about half the time with a 2 year old male. That's an interesting question about birds from a second clutch. I have n...
- Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:58 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Question about grey hen
- Replies: 2
- Views: 680
- Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:24 pm
- Forum: IRN Diet & Housing
- Topic: better nutrtion?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1030
- Mon Sep 22, 2008 2:23 pm
- Forum: IRN Diet & Housing
- Topic: better nutrtion?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1030
A bird's feathers are very much a reflection of their diet, but the feathers themselves don't change much after they've grown in. Birds are always losing and replacing a few feathers so you'll see a little bit of the effects of a diet change shorrtly after the change occurs but where you'll really s...
- Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:56 pm
- Forum: IRN Diet & Housing
- Topic: better nutrtion?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1030
- Sun Sep 21, 2008 7:59 am
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: My New Birds
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1631
The outcome depends on whether the female has one or two turquoise genes. Unfortunately, there's no reliable way to tell visually. If she has two turquoise genes, all the babies will be turquoise pallids (pastel lacewing). If she only has one turquoise gene, half the babies will be turquoise pallid ...
- Sat Sep 20, 2008 7:04 pm
- Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
- Topic: Hi to everyone! Just adopted a 4yo IRN! QUESTIONS!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 920
First, a big thank you for adopting a bird. You may well have an African there. Indians tend to have very little dark coloration on the upper mandible. They are two subspecies of the same species and all of what you see on this site is equally applicable to Africans. Good luck with her. It sounds li...
- Sun Sep 14, 2008 7:20 pm
- Forum: IRN Diet & Housing
- Topic: Pellet problem
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1662
A couple of tricks for getting a reluctant bird to eat pellets... 1. Offer them pellets only (no fruits, vegetables or seeds) for a few hours first thing in the morning. 2. Spread some pellets on a small mirror on the bottom of the cage. They'll very often want to investigate it and start pecking at...
- Sun Sep 14, 2008 6:53 pm
- Forum: IRN Diet & Housing
- Topic: IRN Anatomy
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1440
- Fri Sep 12, 2008 3:15 pm
- Forum: IRN Breeders
- Topic: Want to get into Indian Ringnecks? Australia only.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2603
- Fri Sep 12, 2008 3:07 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Comments/Questions
- Topic: outdoors and mosquitos
- Replies: 7
- Views: 703
- Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:26 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Comments/Questions
- Topic: Parasites - Toxoplasmosis
- Replies: 6
- Views: 765
- Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:15 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Comments/Questions
- Topic: outdoors and mosquitos
- Replies: 7
- Views: 703
- Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:15 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Comments/Questions
- Topic: outdoors and mosquitos
- Replies: 7
- Views: 703
- Thu Sep 11, 2008 8:04 am
- Forum: IRN Diet & Housing
- Topic: IRN Anatomy
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1440
- Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:49 pm
- Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
- Topic: balance problem???
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1000
- Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:46 pm
- Forum: IRN Diet & Housing
- Topic: IRN Anatomy
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1440
- Tue Sep 09, 2008 2:04 pm
- Forum: IRN Photo Forum
- Topic: here "she" is
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1251
- Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:45 am
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: colors question
- Replies: 1
- Views: 598
Assuming your female is not split to anything... If bred to a lutino (yellow) male, you will get lutino females and green males split to ino. The ino gene prevents the production of melanin and has the effect of turning an otherwise green bird yellow and an otherwise blue bird white. There are two f...
- Sun Sep 07, 2008 7:22 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: worried
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1501
When you put the torch (or flashlight as we like to say here) to the eggs, was the liquid completely uniform in color or did you notice a slightly darker spot somewhere or a dark ring around the edge of the liquid? If you saw either of those, it may have been fertile but died very early and the cold...
- Sat Sep 06, 2008 9:30 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: First time breeders
- Replies: 2
- Views: 749
- Sat Sep 06, 2008 9:06 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: worried
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1501
- Sat Sep 06, 2008 7:45 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Comments/Questions
- Topic: Albino Snowy IRN
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1595
Maybe a little off from the original topic, but the differences between aviculture in Australia and the US certainly make for an interesting discussion. $20-30 Aussie dollars is about $16-25 US dollars. It's amazing that you guys can get a green IRN for that. They go for about $200 here. On the high...
- Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:49 pm
- Forum: IRN Photo Forum
- Topic: Searching picture of pallid Violet green bird ...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1272
- Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:02 pm
- Forum: IRN Photo Forum
- Topic: Searching picture of pallid Violet green bird ...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1272
- Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:51 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself!
- Topic: Hello...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 830
- Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:43 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Comments/Questions
- Topic: Albino Snowy IRN
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1595
- Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:14 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: DOM. Pied - Will they be masked by INO?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1441
- Fri Sep 05, 2008 6:44 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Comments/Questions
- Topic: Albino Snowy IRN
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1595
An albino will go for about $300-$400 in the U.S. You might be able to do a little better but if you're getting a vet visit and a large bag of food for $500 you're certainly not getting ripped off. An albino is a combination of the blue and ino genes, both of which have been around for a while and b...
- Wed Sep 03, 2008 11:23 am
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: DOM. Pied - Will they be masked by INO?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1441
Dominant refers only to it's mode of inheritance with respect to wild type genes. It's not necessarily dominant over all other mutations. I believe that dominant pied will be masked in an ino bird, just like the violet is masked in your albino hen. Both pied and ino work by shutting off melanin prod...
- Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:37 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Comments/Questions
- Topic: IRN buyed in very bad condition need urgent help with photos
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1811
Hi Serkan,
If you want to try pellets, there are a couple of places in Germany and Italy that might be able to ship to you.
www.avifood.com
www.pappagallostore.it
Jim
If you want to try pellets, there are a couple of places in Germany and Italy that might be able to ship to you.
www.avifood.com
www.pappagallostore.it
Jim
- Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:58 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Genetics Help!!!!!!!!!!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 739
You're very welcome. The trick with gencalc is figuring how to describe your bird's genes in gencalc's nomenclature. It takes some practice. Again, that is a fantastic pairing you have there. I am EXTREMELY envious that you have a chance to hatch out a turquoise violet male. It's my very favorite IR...
- Thu Aug 28, 2008 1:39 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Comments/Questions
- Topic: IRN buyed in very bad condition need urgent help with photos
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1811
Go ahead and leave the feathers in. They're not hurting anything by staying there and, as you point out, you might make him mad if you attempted to pull them out. They'll fall out naturally when he moults. As far as the cage goes, ideally there should be at least enough room for him to spread his wi...
- Thu Aug 28, 2008 11:20 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Comments/Questions
- Topic: IRN buyed in very bad condition need urgent help with photos
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1811
Hi Serkan, That guy's lucky you found him. His dark, stringy feathers are a pretty good example of what a bird looks like that hasn't been fed properly. Fruits are fine but are much less dense in nutrients than vegetables. See if you can get him to eat dark green vegetables like broccoli and green p...
- Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:34 am
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Genetics Help!!!!!!!!!!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 739
Hi Melissa, I'm going to assume that by pastelblue lacewing you're referring to a turquoiseblue pallid and that the violet hen is a single factor violet blue. That will give you the following: Males: 25% blue split for pallid 25% turquoiseblue split for pallid 25% single factor violet blue split for...
- Sat Aug 23, 2008 11:16 am
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: mating question - plz help
- Replies: 5
- Views: 909
Compared to a lot of other species of parrots, IRN's are not usually thought of as a species that forms strong pair bonds. You may not see much pair bond behavior outside of the breeding season. Where are you located? IRN's tend to show breeding behavior in response to environmental cues, especially...
- Fri Aug 22, 2008 2:40 pm
- Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
- Topic: Understanding how your Parrot thinks
- Replies: 2
- Views: 735
- Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:18 am
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: How does it 'happen'?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 639
- Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:34 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Will they all be blue?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 812
- Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:06 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Will they all be blue?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 812
- Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:50 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Will they all be blue?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 812
Hi Stacy, It's not clear from your post whether the male is a visual pallid (lacewing) or is split for pallid. No problem, though. We can figure it out for both combinations. Blue pallid male x blue female: Males: 100% Blue split for pallid Females: 100% Blue pallid Blue male split for pallid x blue...
- Tue Aug 19, 2008 1:51 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Just curious
- Replies: 3
- Views: 662
- Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:55 am
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: goldolive cock to lutino hen ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 677
- Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:36 am
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: goldolive cock to lutino hen ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 677
By gold olive I'm assuming that the male is, in what is as close as there is to a standard parlance, a greygreen cinnamon. Grey is a dominant gene and therefore your bird will look the same whether he has one copy of the grey gene or two copies. There's no way to tell just by looking at him. It does...
- Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:17 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Just curious
- Replies: 3
- Views: 662
- Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:30 am
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Is it okay to breed different color IRNs?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 602
- Sun Aug 17, 2008 3:31 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself!
- Topic: Questions about adopted birds
- Replies: 3
- Views: 736
Hopefully things will continue to go well for you. Shoulders is one of those things where there seems to be a wide range of opinion. Some people think that allowing a bird on your shoulder encourages the bird to act in a dominant manner and therefore may lead to behavior problems. Others don't have ...
- Fri Aug 15, 2008 2:28 pm
- Forum: IRN Lounge
- Topic: Bites
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2117
Bites
While reading another post related to bites I came up with a list of species that have bitten me, ranked in order of most to least painful. 1. Patagonian Conure 2. Moustache Parakeet 3. Eclectus 4. Black Capped Conure 5. IRN 6. Cockatiel (Little monsters get ahold of you and twist and don't let go.)...
- Fri Aug 15, 2008 2:00 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself!
- Topic: Questions about adopted birds
- Replies: 3
- Views: 736
First, thank you for being willing to rescue a bird. The bird world needs more like you. The primary thing is to be patient. They need some time to adjust to their new surroundings. You might be best off not even trying to handle them for a few days and insetad just spend some quiet time near their ...
- Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:51 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: can someone please pst pic
- Replies: 5
- Views: 773
- Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:10 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Comments/Questions
- Topic: poop
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1118
- Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:01 am
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: can someone please pst pic
- Replies: 5
- Views: 773
The nomenclature issue is a problem outside of South Australia too. It can be really intimidating and confusing to a newcomer who's trying to educate him/herself. There's a group of people in Belgium and The Netherlands who've taken it upon themselves to come up with standard genetic terminology for...
- Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:23 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: can someone please pst pic
- Replies: 5
- Views: 773
The lacewing mutation is also known as pallid. I don't personally have any pallid birds but Jay - a very knowledgable breeder who is active on this forum - has some pictures of pallids on his site.
http://www.indianringneck.net/MutationPics.html
Jim
http://www.indianringneck.net/MutationPics.html
Jim
- Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:05 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: White or albino?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1699
- Sun Aug 10, 2008 11:29 am
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: White or albino?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1699
- Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:03 pm
- Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
- Topic: New IRN need help!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 659
First, congratulations on your new bird. The most important thing is patience. Three days isn't much time for the bird to get acclimated to her new surroundings and it's perfectly normal for her to be very wary of you right now. For the next few days, try some very low key things that don't involve ...
- Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:45 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Comments/Questions
- Topic: random green feather on blue IRN PICS
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1102
Your bird probably has the turquoise gene. The turquoise gene is a variation of the blue gene that causes a few green feathers to grow. I have a turquoise female that I originally thought was just blue until she grew in a few green feathers. I don't know how common it is for a turquoise bird to init...
- Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:12 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself!
- Topic: Hello!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1311
- Tue Aug 05, 2008 7:45 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Comments/Questions
- Topic: poop
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1118
Just to reiterate...a nutrition issue is just one possible cause and getting them into some natural sunlight to stimulate Vitamin D production is just one possible remedy. Heck, it's entirely possible that they eat their droppings simply because they - and I'm getting nauseous just typing this - lik...
- Tue Aug 05, 2008 7:26 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: White or albino?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1699
Yes, ino is a sex linked gene. In birds, a male needs to inherit copies of the ino gene from both his parents in order to be visually ino. Females can only inherit the ino gene from their father and as a result of this need only one copy of the gene to be visually ino. Birds are the reverse of human...
- Fri Aug 01, 2008 11:55 am
- Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
- Topic: New User, Problems with IRN bought from pet shop in Sweden.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1746
A DNA test won't tell you anything about the age of the bird, just which sex it is. Different people have different opinions about wing clipping and I don't think it's as simple as right or wrong or good or bad. Some people like having a fully feathered, flighted bird. Others find that birds with cl...
- Fri Aug 01, 2008 11:10 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Comments/Questions
- Topic: poop
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1118
No problem. Are you up near Newcastle? Probably hard to find a sunny day no matter the time of the year... As an alternative to the liquid vitamins, you can offer him some fresh vegetables if you're not doing that already. Broccoli, bell peppers and pumpkin are favorites with my birds but just about...
- Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:23 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Comments/Questions
- Topic: poop
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1118
This is called coprophagia and there are a few different reasons your bird might be doing it. It could be caused by a nutritional deficiency of some sort or it may be a reaction to some sort of stress or even something he does out of boredom. I've read of a couple instances where the suspected defic...
- Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:22 pm
- Forum: IRN Lounge
- Topic: boy or girl ????
- Replies: 2
- Views: 919
- Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:31 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Help
- Replies: 2
- Views: 539
Another related possibility is that one or both of the parents has a bacterial infection that they are passing along to the eggs. Having an avian veterinarian examine the parents is something to consider, especially if none of the environmental factors that Fah mentioned seem like a likely cause. Jim
- Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:54 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself!
- Topic: New with question
- Replies: 2
- Views: 630
Hi Carmen, Here's my 2 cents... I have 3 IRN's, a moustache parakeet and a whole mess of budgies. I also have five kids, ranging in age from 2 to 16. The IRN's are all pretty gentle but, for the safety of both the birds and the kids, the birds are never loose around the kids without my supervision. ...
- Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:55 pm
- Forum: IRN Breeders
- Topic: Pied IRN
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1320
With two birds that are split for recessive pied only one in four babies on average will be visually pied. It's certainly possible that the probabilities just didn't work out with this clutch. If you got an albino, your birds are definitely both split for blue and your male is split for ino as well....
- Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:31 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Stumped.....????
- Replies: 7
- Views: 986
- Fri Jul 25, 2008 7:47 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Stumped.....????
- Replies: 7
- Views: 986
- Fri Jul 25, 2008 7:05 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Stumped.....????
- Replies: 7
- Views: 986
- Fri Nov 02, 2007 1:15 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Help!!!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1507
- Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:47 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: wierd question..??? slightly OT, still genetics though
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3871
- Wed Oct 24, 2007 5:13 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Comments/Questions
- Topic: my blue ning necks colers are changing
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1257
There's a picture of a blue turquoise in this thread:
http://www.indianringneck.com/board/vie ... php?t=4899
Is yours starting to look a little like that? About the same color green coming in on the back and the wings?
Jim
http://www.indianringneck.com/board/vie ... php?t=4899
Is yours starting to look a little like that? About the same color green coming in on the back and the wings?
Jim
- Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:26 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: wierd question..??? slightly OT, still genetics though
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3871
I've always been amazed that something that small can bite that hard... Swan, I'm not sure what else I can tell you about those birds. My admittedly uneducated guess is that the two light ones are both pallid and that the one with the darker tail is violet and that the green ones are both dark aqua ...
- Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:37 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Comments/Questions
- Topic: my blue ning necks colers are changing
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1257
- Sun Oct 21, 2007 5:29 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: wierd question..??? slightly OT, still genetics though
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3871
OK. I've slept off the jetlag and am thinking more clearly now. The idea that the male is split for ino or pallid makes sense given the way the lighter two look. It seems probable as well (but doesn't guarantee) that the father is recessive pied rather than dominant pied as none of the babies appear...
- Sat Oct 20, 2007 5:47 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: wierd question..??? slightly OT, still genetics though
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3871
- Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:10 am
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: wierd question..??? slightly OT, still genetics though
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3871
I can figure out the genetics behind the mutations but I'm not real familiar with what the lovebird mutations actually look like. About all the help I can offer is to note that all the birds must have at least one turquoise gene and that none of them look pied so you can reduce the question to deter...
- Sun Oct 14, 2007 9:24 am
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Pastel blue hen to grey cock?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3049
- Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:46 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: genetics
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4497
But how do I know if he has autosomal or sex-linked chromosomes? Would he have to be the offspring of a sex-linked pair? Your bird has lots of pairs of autosomal chromosomes (no one's really sure exactly how many due to the presence of small ones called microchromosomes) and one pair of sex linked ...
- Thu Oct 11, 2007 12:54 am
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: First Post, couple questions
- Replies: 1
- Views: 853
Glad to have another Jim from Texas on the board. You said the breeder said they had already been split. Do you know what the breeder meant by this? When discussing parrot genetics split means that a bird has recessive traits, i.e., genetic characteristics that don't manifest themselves visually but...
- Sat Oct 06, 2007 3:43 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself!
- Topic: Hi everyone. iv just joined
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1366
- Fri Oct 05, 2007 6:18 pm
- Forum: IRN Diet & Housing
- Topic: Oranges and Peel
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2367
It's fine for the bird to eat orange peel as a component of a balanced diet. Their nutrient composition is different from the rest of the orange but it is believed to contain both cholesterol lowering and anti-carcinogenic compounds. I think most people don't eat it, except grated in small amounts a...
- Fri Oct 05, 2007 3:46 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: woohoo
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2645
- Fri Oct 05, 2007 8:19 am
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: woohoo
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2645
- Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:13 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: woohoo
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2645
- Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:59 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: help urgent please !!!!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3176
Sorry to hear you're not having much luck. another Question sorry the baby is to young to tell what coulor it is but one of the babies tha died had very black claws which I asume would have been green the other three including the one that is a live have lighter grey claws could these be mutations p...
- Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:17 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself!
- Topic: Hi everyone. iv just joined
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1366
- Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:01 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: woohoo
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2645
- Thu Oct 04, 2007 1:00 pm
- Forum: IRN Diet & Housing
- Topic: no animal foods
- Replies: 64
- Views: 19505
- Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:53 am
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: genetics
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4497
- Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:33 pm
- Forum: IRN Diet & Housing
- Topic: no animal foods
- Replies: 64
- Views: 19505
You raise a very good point that bears repeating. Virtually everything - from chicken to organically grown carrots to stream water in Pittsburgh - is toxic to all species at some level. Take Vitamin A precursors - which are highly concentrated in carrots and sweet potatoes - for example. They have b...
- Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:09 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: 'we've got boppin
- Replies: 3
- Views: 911
- Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:47 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself!
- Topic: hi from Pittsburgh
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1319
- Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:23 pm
- Forum: IRN Diet & Housing
- Topic: no animal foods
- Replies: 64
- Views: 19505
jim the difference between appricot and peach, corm with rice or wheat and potatoes with tapioca are the same than the difference of corm and cows meat or chicken bone? Easy there, tiger. I don't recall implying anything remotely like that. I was trying to get clarification on what BigChicken meant...
- Wed Oct 03, 2007 10:22 am
- Forum: IRN Diet & Housing
- Topic: no animal foods
- Replies: 64
- Views: 19505
I know that a parrot isn’t a Iguana, but personally I feel that giving any animal something that it would never eat in the wild as part of it’s regular diet, is just not healthy. Are you suggesting that things like corn, peaches, tomatoes and sweet potatoes should not be part of an IRN's diet? Thos...
- Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:58 am
- Forum: Introduce Yourself!
- Topic: A warm hello from sunny South Africa
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1476
- Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:24 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself!
- Topic: new irn?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1976
- Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:42 pm
- Forum: IRN Lounge
- Topic: University were pets are allowed in the accomondation
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1526
The University of Pennsylvania has some provisions for allowing birds in on-campus residences. Admission is very competitive and tuition is very expensive, though. The State University of New York at Canton also has a one dormitory set aside for students with pets. You can probably find a few others...
- Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:49 am
- Forum: Introduce Yourself!
- Topic: new irn?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1976
First, kudos to you for rescuing a bird. Sounds like you've come down with Multiple Bird Syndrome - an affliction that, happily, is difficult to cure. I managed to bring up the picture by pasting m into my browser. It's hard to tell from that picture what exactly you have but my guess, based on what...
- Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:15 am
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: genetics
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4497
- Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:16 am
- Forum: IRN Diet & Housing
- Topic: no animal foods
- Replies: 64
- Views: 19505
A few things other than 8 grams of chicken that contain 2-3 grams of protein: 15 grams of soybeans 10 grams of salmon 100 grams of sweet potatoes 125 grams of broccoli 12 grams of peanuts 12 grams of pumpkin seeds 450 grams of grapes and - my method for my birds - 20 grams of Harrison's pellets. Alm...
- Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:14 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: genetics
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4497
- Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:05 pm
- Forum: IRN Diet & Housing
- Topic: no animal foods
- Replies: 64
- Views: 19505
There's nothing inherently wrong with giving chicken to your birds. It's one of many ways to provide them with the 2-3 grams per day of protein they require. In fact, chicken is a dietarily complete protein while most vegetables, legumes, nuts and seeds are not. It supplies all of the amino acids th...
- Mon Oct 01, 2007 5:52 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: genetics
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4497
This thread linked below discusses the same pairing. The sexes of the birds are reversed as compared to the one in this thread but it doesn't matter for the genes in question.
http://indianringneck.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=4899
http://indianringneck.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=4899
- Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:02 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: genetics
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4497
- Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:40 pm
- Forum: IRN Diet & Housing
- Topic: no animal foods
- Replies: 64
- Views: 19505
- Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:09 pm
- Forum: IRN Diet & Housing
- Topic: no animal foods
- Replies: 64
- Views: 19505
- Thu Sep 27, 2007 3:42 pm
- Forum: IRN Diet & Housing
- Topic: no animal foods
- Replies: 64
- Views: 19505
It's not that someone just tossed a spinal cord in front of their bird and said have at it. The problems with BSE occured when manufacturers of cattle feed were using nervous system tissue as part of their formulation. Cow eats feed. British person eats cow. Ten to fifteen years later about two doze...
- Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:22 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: pairing problem!!!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1598
- Thu Sep 27, 2007 10:55 am
- Forum: IRN Diet & Housing
- Topic: no animal foods
- Replies: 64
- Views: 19505
- Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:14 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: pairing problem!!!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1598
- Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:48 am
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: pairing problem!!!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1598
- Wed Sep 19, 2007 12:36 am
- Forum: IRN Diet & Housing
- Topic: What brand of pellets do you feed your IRN?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11248
I feed my three IRN's as follows: 2 teaspoons Harrison's high potency fine 1 piece Harrison's Power Treats 1/2 teaspoon of either squash, sweet potato, broccoli, peach, papaya or mango They like the high potency coarse too but I found that too much of it got wasted on the bottom of the cage. They ar...
- Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:03 pm
- Forum: IRN Photo Forum
- Topic: New IRN
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1837
There are pictures of all kinds of mutations including Turquoise Blue at Zahir Rana's Pisttacula World site.
http://home.wanadoo.nl/psittaculaworld/ ... rameri.htm
Jim
http://home.wanadoo.nl/psittaculaworld/ ... rameri.htm
Jim
- Sun Sep 16, 2007 12:13 am
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Pastel blue hen to grey cock?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3049
- Sat Sep 15, 2007 4:31 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Pastel blue hen to grey cock?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3049
- Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:24 pm
- Forum: IRN Diet & Housing
- Topic: Manufactured Food vs Fresh
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2267
- Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:49 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Pastel blue hen to grey cock?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3049
- Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:01 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself!
- Topic: Hello
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1604
I had a plane stopover in Singapore a couple of years ago and decided to stay an extra day to buy some fish from David Lim at Fishiotribe. He won Aquarama in 2003 with a spotted leopard snakeskin. Real nice guy. I e-mailed him a few days before I got there and he responded with an offer to pick me u...
- Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:42 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Pastel blue hen to grey cock?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3049
- Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:23 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself!
- Topic: Hello
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1604
- Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:19 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Pastel blue hen to grey cock?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3049
Ah. Turquoise. I'm sorry. I'd heard that they're sometimes called pastel and didn't make the connection. That makes it a little different. Turquoise is bit like grey in that a bird that exhibits the gene visually can have either one or two copies of it. So your male could be grey with either one or ...
- Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:46 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Pastel blue hen to grey cock?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3049
- Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:24 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself!
- Topic: Hello
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1604
Hello
I've posted a few times in the breeding section but thought I should introduce myself... My name's Jim. I live just outside of Dallas with three IRN's (Jeff, Shiva and Parvati), a moustache parakeet (Tristan), nine budgies (Spiderman, Snowball, Garcia, Ophelia, Casper, Jiggy, Boom-Boom, Dennis and C...
- Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:19 am
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Genetics Questions....
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1175
- Sun Sep 02, 2007 2:46 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Genetics Questions....
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1175
Hi Gordie, If your lutino male and your blue female aren't split for anything you get the following: Males - 100% green split for blue and and ino Females - 100% lutino split for blue The turquoise and blue genes occupy the same allele on their chromosome (Jay, correct me if I'm wrong on this) and t...
- Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:07 pm
- Forum: IRN Lounge
- Topic: Anyone else in Texas or the States?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 9107
- Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:42 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: color mutations questions
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2481
Do you get any of the black cockatoos aside from the Gang-Gangs? And on a point vaguely related to the original post...Three green babies from a blue male and a lutino female isn't anywhere near enough babies to definitively conclude that you don't have some recessive gene that could express itself ...
- Thu Aug 30, 2007 3:11 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: color mutations questions
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2481
- Thu Aug 30, 2007 1:30 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: color mutations questions
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2481
- Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:39 am
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: color mutations questions
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2481
- Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:26 am
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: color mutations questions
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2481
- Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:04 am
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: color mutations questions
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2481
If you assume that your birds are not split for anything (that they don't have any recessive traits that are not being visually expressed) the offspring will be as follows: Males - 100% green split for blue and ino Females - 100% green split for blue Do you know anything about either bird's parents?...
- Wed Aug 29, 2007 4:18 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Genetics question re: cinammon and pallid
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2214
One more thing you might help me clarify - The lower the RF the closer the two loci are on the chromosome, correct? The genes swap chromosomes during recombination in randomly cut strings and it seems to me that if one chromosome has the mutated pallid gene and the wild type cinammon gene it's very ...
- Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:57 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Genetics question re: cinammon and pallid
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2214
- Wed Aug 29, 2007 1:33 pm
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Genetics question re: cinammon and pallid
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2214
- Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:29 am
- Forum: Breeding IRNs
- Topic: Genetics question re: cinammon and pallid
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2214
Genetics question re: cinammon and pallid
I'm new to the forum and have a question about the interaction between cinammon and pallid genes. I have a blue cinammon female and have the opportunity to acquire a blue pallid male. My understanding is that the resulting offspring would be as follows: Males - 100% Blue split for cinammon and palli...