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

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 2:09 pm
by lurcherk9
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

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

Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 4:30 am
by Kiki22
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.

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

Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 5:30 am
by ellieelectrons
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.

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

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:58 pm
by smick
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.

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

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 10:07 am
by angeldc77
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.

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

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 3:28 am
by marline sa
hi all!!!!
i have a green cock and white hen what colour do you think the babies wil be :?

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

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 1:27 am
by Johan S
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).

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

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:26 pm
by Lushen1600
Hi Lucherk, what is the colours of the parents of the 2 green chicks that you have?

Thanks
Lushen