best colour to put with a green hen and a green cock

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lurcherk9
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best colour to put with a green hen and a green cock

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hi guys ive recently bought a pair of ring necks but they are brother and sister they are 3 years old and i am looking to start breeding them but would like to start getting some mutation 1s i dont want the brother and sister to breed so i am going to split them up and buy a new cock and hen to go with each 1 what i wanted to know was what would you recomend putting with them to get differant coloured chicks i know they might throw green as well but as im just starting out with ringnecks any advice would be good im not new to breeding as i used to breed african greys but like advice on the colours plz thanks in advance if i dont get chance to thank you
Kiki22
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Re: best colour to put with a green hen and a green cock

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I don't know a terrible lot about mutations but I am pretty sure that if they arn't split to anything else that anything you put them with would result mostly in greens because it is the dominant colour.
ellieelectrons
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Re: best colour to put with a green hen and a green cock

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Also not a breeder but I know that a lot of breeders use this genetic calculator to help them figure it out:
http://gencalc.com/

Ellie.
smick
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Re: best colour to put with a green hen and a green cock

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Only new at mutations myself but i think to produce mutation colours quickly from normal greens you probably would be best to pair to another co-dominant mutation such as grey (bluegrey) and violet (blueviolet),both these depending on which sex is what% will give coloured young such as greygreen/blue &violet green/blue. I don't know how many other colours are good straight up but more experienced breeders may help. Thanks Mick.
angeldc77
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Re: best colour to put with a green hen and a green cock

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Depends on how much you want to spend. You can get a turquoise violet pallid cockand all your female babies would be violetgreen lace wings and green lace wings all split to blue or turquoise .all the mail babies would be green or violet green split to blue or turquoise.
marline sa
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Re: best colour to put with a green hen and a green cock

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hi all!!!!
i have a green cock and white hen what colour do you think the babies wil be :?
Johan S
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marline sa wrote:hi all!!!!
i have a green cock and white hen what colour do you think the babies wil be :?
They will all be green, unless the cock splits for blue (or turquoise), then you can get green and blue (or turquoise).
Lushen1600
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Re: best colour to put with a green hen and a green cock

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Hi Lucherk, what is the colours of the parents of the 2 green chicks that you have?

Thanks
Lushen
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Green x Green
DGreen x DBlue
DE Blue/ino x DBlue
Grey/ino x Albino
Pallidino x Lutino
DE Blue Turq x Grey
DE Grey Turq x Blue
Greygreen/cinn x DE Blue Cinn
DE DBlue Turq x Blue Turq CHWT
Blue x DBlue Turq
Blue x Blue Pallid
Lutino/blue x Blue
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