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I tried running it through a new calculator produced by Stefan Adams. I think you would have to have a:

grey blue male and the lutino/blue

or

Blue Male and the lutino is grey ino/blue

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Actually I am very happy I came across this post. I have been away from this site for several months as breeding season wasn't in full swing. When I came back I have been reading posts and it might be my imagination, but seems like the activity has gone down here a lot. While FB is a great place, fo...

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You have to reverse engineer to figure out what they are spit for if you don't know. So simply see what colors you get and then figure out how you got them. You might have to actually do a few pairings over a few seasons to determine all the possibilities.

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Not sure this is correct as I am thinking Deep is cobalt. However this should give you some idea of the possible combinations even it the colors are off: 1.0 D blue /opaline x 0.1 turquoise(parblue) /rec.pied cleartail % from all 1.0 6.25% 1.0 turquoise(parblue)Blue /rec.pied 6.25% 1.0 turquoise(par...

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Is Deep the term people use now for cobalt? I saw someone interchanging these two and it got me curious. Thanks

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Someone asked, so now I am curious. Is their a general number of suspected IRN color/mutations that people use? I told the woman about 150 but that was just based off an approximation of combinations I saw in the book Asiatic Parrots and their mutations. I am thinking somebody has a general number. ...

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A light sheen of green over the entre body except for the head would indicate it is a green pallid.

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In addition to pine shavings and peat moss you can also you Soil Conditioner. Like Peat Moss is is decaying material more similar to what you would find inside a tree hollow. Fine grains, the birds are unable to throw it out of the box as easy and you can put in shavings above it too if you like. Mi...

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I recently went to a bird show and purchased a lutino indian ringneck cock. The bird looks good, but it is an older bird, older than anything I have. If I am reading the bands (one brass or copper and the other open SS) correctly it is 2002 bird. After placing it in my male community cage I noticed ...

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Thanks guys, the bird I was referring to is the darkest blue in the photo. As always light & camera is an issue. With several DF Violet blues and SF Violet blues on hand, this bird is very much different from either, it is blue and not purple, with the exception of the head. The blue is very dar...

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Hi all, I am hoping someone can give me some clarity on the color of the darkest bird in these photos. The bird came from a pair that is a single factor violet-blue male split opaline and a cinnamon violet-blue hen. The body color is dark blue, really dark blue, with a head color that looks just lik...

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I have a pair of ringnecks I have had together now for over two years. The male is four, the female, 5. Last year she laid 3 clutchs, all infertile. This year, she laid her first clutch and they were all infertile. He is Green/Lutino and she is Albino. I did some back tracking and found the owner pr...

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You might try looking at the Group Pages of Facebook. They do have a group entitled Aviary Design, Construction and management. that shares a lot of projects and will provide lots of input with posed questions. The other things I have found helpful are doing image searches using 100 or so of your fa...

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That's great, but who actually fixes these things?

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This isn't Day-To-Day ringneck photos, but its every few days. http://www.benthamscience.com/open/tooe ... OOENIJ.pdf

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I just purchased a 4 year old grey male ringneck. The parents of this bird were 1.0 grey and 0.1 lutino. making his only possibly combination (assuming they are both as stated) 1.0 grey(sf) green /blue ino . Plugging this into the genetics calculator (grey(sf), Blue (split), Ino (split), and mating ...

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I was at a Mart yesterday and a woman had a IRN she refered to as a Scaly Green. She did not know much more about it. I know for a fact it was NOT a Violet-green, not a normal-green, and not a green-grey. Their two longest tail feathers were not green, and not blue or violet. What would be closer to...

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This past year I paired a 1.0 Blue Violet Turquoise male to a 0.1 Blue hen. When I use the genetics calculator I am checking 1.0 Violet Single Factor Turquoise Visual At this point, the options go back and forth for either "Blue" or "Turquoise" to be selected, but you can not sel...

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What you are seeing is babies ready for sale who were born a few months earlier. Breeding season in the Houston Area Starts in late December and goes to the end of June. Their s a guy up there who breeds ringnecks that I am told uses artificial lighting to trick his birds into a second breedings sea...

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I leave nest boxes in place all year around, but they never use them outside of season. If she is working it, I would leave it and see what happens. She might lay, never know. The only ones I have seen go in are this past seasons babies who wonder in and out just to look around. But it is not their ...

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She wont unless you have her inside and for some reason have the lights on for at least 12 hours a day after she had been in a period of 8 hour a day light for some time. The "season" in Texas is over, but never say never! Good Luck!!

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I live in Corpus Christi, TX. For me, breeding season has started as early as Dec 27th and as late as Feb 1th. Then runs until the end of June. My aviaries are outdoors. Last year was not a great year early in the season having the 1st eggs across the board clear, but shaped up will on 2nd and 3rd c...

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For example, Imran has had this page http://www.indianringneck.com/handfeed/ since before I joined this forum. But I don't think it gets read as much as it deserves. Hmmm, not only have I read that one (several times), but the rest as well. I think the articles expressed here are extremely valuable...

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A violet blue is a violet colored ringneck. If you use the genetics calculator, you would have to select both violet and blue to get it to work right, but visually it is a violet colored bird. A violet green bird also referred to as dark green in the states (bad term as there is also a dark green ri...

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Colored Pellets will change stool color. The key will be to see if he eats them, if he is eating, he should be fine. I would still give some seed for a treat, but for the first few weeks blaze forward to pellets and get him eating well. If you really want to worry, give him some beats, it comes out ...

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I hate to say this, but I would recommend not getting the bird. You are going to have headaches both coming and going. Although, thier might be a express method as part of a military move. Contact your husbands travel branch and the new command and ask about transporting pets and ringnecks specifica...

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Yes, its bad, but like most everything else given in moderation is not going to adversly affect them. I have had various birds over the years who drank coffee or soda. The occasional drink is fine. Avoid choclate additives in the coffee and thier is a diffrence when you get into double-choclate-carm...

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I feed mine both sweet patatoes and beets. If you have never fed the beats before, dont be suprised if the stool is red as it will be after eating beets. Not sure about Dutch Carrots, but carrots are also a healthy choice to feed.

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This is a crude way to describe this, however visually it kinda works. A very small baby ringneck when a feeding is completed will have what appears to be a womans "D" size cup in its crop. As the baby nears weaning, the full crop will look more like a "B" cup. One feeding of a b...

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I can use Google too! NUTRACEUTICALS & FOODS *– USP grade zinc oxides can provide the essential mineral zinc, in vitamins, dietary supplements, and direct and indirect food applications. What I dont use is ebay, and while Dean does have an ebay store its not the bulk of his business. If your cur...

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I use a product here in the States called Dean's Calcium Blocks. He is located in Arizona and makes and sells a lot of them. Here is his ingredient list: Contents: Calcium phosphate, calcium carbonate, steamed bone meal, oyster shell grit, Iodide salt, yeast, Nutria-Vets special milk protein Concent...

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I have had a few like that. Completely imprinted on humans. They make fantastic pets but I never got any of them to breed and one hen killed two of her mates. Do you know anything about the birds upbringing? I am very curious. Each one I had that was human imprinted was purchased by someone from a b...

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There is a really good write up at the beginning of this section about hand feeding. If equipped, you could hand feed from day one, I usually wait until the youngest chick is about 3 days old before pulling the clutch. Anything before 2 weeks should be fine. I am currently feeding one baby for plans...

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A few birds don’t do well on colored pellet, but it’s fairly rare although more prevalent in some species. A friend had a pair of African Greys who laid 12 eggs where the eggs were going bad. He kept mentioning that the cock was sloppy and getting food all down the front of the hen to the point she ...

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I don’t think you could get a ringneck or any bird to grow larger than it is genetically predisposed to do. When it comes to feeding, you might look at it as if you feed the wrong things, stunt its growth, etc it will not get as large as it is genetically designed to get. There is a study in a book ...

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I mated a male lutino with a green pallid female. I noticed the red eye on the oldest chick and initially thought it must be a hen. Then I started looking at the genetics calculator and see that pallid is co-dominant of sex linked ino and started looking closer at the entire clutch which all seems t...

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Hi, I have a pair together who have already laid once this year. Out of her first clutch of 5, the frist two chicks hatched immediatly disapeared from the nest box. I beleive the male has eaten them upon hatching. I had moved the eggs and got one baby. Now, with the babies due to hatch any time now,...

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From what I can see, the answer would be no. At least in Texas. I run one bird mart for our bird club and attend a second. I talk with a couple hundred breeders over the course of the year who breed all sorts of birds. Ringnecks are popular with those who breed them. But overall, at least over here,...

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I use about the same in both metal and wood. I also use L boxes. I have had much better luck with the straight up and down boxes and found the L boxes allow enough nesting area to allow the hen to push the shavings over and out of her way. The result has been eggs which roll around from lack of shav...

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Lushen Thank you, however I am still questioning the calculator. The one I am having a problem with is Madas's calculator at http://www.halsbandsittichmutationen.de/IRNGenCalcSL/IRNGenCalcSLTestPage.html When I attemp to load a male green cleartail split turqouise, By selecting Cleartail and double ...

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I have a male green cleartail which should be split turquoise. His parents were 1.0 Turquoise/cinimmon/cleartail and 0.1 green cleartail. Visually, he is a green cleartail. I am attempting to enter him into the genetics calculator as a green cleartail split turquoise, even though I am selecting the ...

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Hello Scott, I breed IRN's in Corpus. Agreed, this is a great site!

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Certinly not a scientific answer, however having raised 50-60 I have found that only a few made really cuddly pets. I suspect that percentage improves dramatically with additional interaction by the handfeeder and isolation of the clutch mates. At any rate, each bird that I condsidered an absolute l...

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I am noticing some of the pictures on this site display a cage design that appears to have a round wire mesh body and the ends are just a 4X4 (or 3X3) square sheet of wire mesh. I am wondering what the benefits or thoughts behind the cage design over a typical shoebox shaped cage. Less wire? less cu...

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This will not work for you. I am a big guy and have very strong hands, so I tried it and it did work, but its not a relationship builder nor is it going to get you the results you seek. I read a post a few years ago that said "Ringnecks are very smart, if you hold them and let them bite you, af...

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try treats in the palm of your hand. first open, until he gets the idea where they are, then with fingers curled a bit, then curled a bit more. Force him to brush against you vice you doing all the work. Make him realize the hand is a good thing. You can do this with palm up and with palm down on yo...

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Can anyone tell me the generational lifespan of various traits? For instance, how many generations down the road could a cinnamon appear in the apple cart if the parents were not visual. Or, how many generations down the road could a ino appear? Often a color is produced that is unexpected, and can ...

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Kimi Let me first say I am not an expert by any means. But I do have a few friends who are. A lot of what I come up with is my own observations and a lot of reading and applying observations of other species etc etc. So here are a few thoughts for what it's worth (sorry I am long winded). Bluffing: ...

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Kimi She is still pretty young, but typically females do not particularly like males until breeding season has started and often it can be dangerous to place unfamiliar couples together if the cage is small as the females could injure or kill the male. So keeping them together but in separate cages ...

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Thanks Madas, I like the calculator, and after much back and forth, my friend finally pulled out the book and realized I (and the calculator) wasn’t wrong. Calculator comments: I use it a lot, mostly day dreaming about various pairing, but it does help me learn. Some things about it are not as intui...

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