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BREEDING PAIRS
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:19 pm
by smick
WITH MY RINGNECKS I BOUGHT A ALBINO RINGNECK AS A POSSIBLE COCK BUT IT MUST BE A HEN AS THE LUTINO COCK BIRD HAS PAIRED UP WITH IT AND IS FEEDING IT. WITH A LUTINO COCK TO A ALBINO HEN WILL I GET LUTINO COCKS AND HENS SPLIT BLUE?. I WENT TO A BIRD SALE AND BOUGHT A MUTURE PASTEL LACEWING COCK WHICH I HAVE PAIRED UP WITH A PASTEL BLUE HEN. IF IM RIGHT SHOULD I GET BLUE AND PASTEL BLUE COCKS BOTH SPLIT LACEWING . BLUE LACEWING HENS AND PASTEL LACEWING HENS?.
I HAVE A ONE YEAR OLD BLUE SPLIT LACEWING COCK IF I GET ANY HENS FROM THE ABOVE PAIR WOULD IT BE BEST TO PAIR IT WITH A BLUE LACEWING HEN OR A PASTEL LACEWING HEN.
ALSO I HAVE A LUTINO HEN WHAT COCK BIRD WOULD BE BEST TO PUT WITH HER?.
Re: BREEDING PAIRS
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 5:04 am
by Recio
Hi, Smick;
smick wrote:WITH MY RINGNECKS I BOUGHT A ALBINO RINGNECK AS A POSSIBLE COCK BUT IT MUST BE A HEN AS THE LUTINO COCK BIRD HAS PAIRED UP WITH IT AND IS FEEDING IT. WITH A LUTINO COCK TO A ALBINO HEN WILL I GET LUTINO COCKS AND HENS SPLIT BLUE?.
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I WENT TO A BIRD SALE AND BOUGHT A MUTURE PASTEL LACEWING COCK WHICH I HAVE PAIRED UP WITH A PASTEL BLUE HEN. IF IM RIGHT SHOULD I GET BLUE AND PASTEL BLUE COCKS BOTH SPLIT LACEWING . BLUE LACEWING HENS AND PASTEL LACEWING HENS?.
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I HAVE A ONE YEAR OLD BLUE SPLIT LACEWING COCK IF I GET ANY HENS FROM THE ABOVE PAIR WOULD IT BE BEST TO PAIR IT WITH A BLUE LACEWING HEN OR A PASTEL LACEWING HEN.
I thick it is wiser to pair it to the pastel lacewing hen. Otherwise you will not get pastel in the offspring.
ALSO I HAVE A LUTINO HEN WHAT COCK BIRD WOULD BE BEST TO PUT WITH HER?.
It depends what you want to do with your birds: if breeding high price mutations try to avoid lutinos, since they will mask buttercups, violets, greys, clearhead-cleartail, ... that is all the mutations where melanin is need to be expressed. The offspring of a lutino hen will always be males split lutino. So you will not find the lutino in the first generation, excepting if you pair her to a male lutino (100% lutinos males and females) or split lutino (50% lutinos males and females). Another possibility is to pair her to a pallid male: you can obtein pallidinos males and pallids females. I thinck that the last one is really the best choice (if your female is not split to other mutations)
Good luck