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Hi all!!
I've tried searching, but I'm on my phone and it's pretty terrible for internetting!! ;)

I have a male lutino ( unknown parents but all nestlings were lutinos, 2 male and 1 female) and want albino and lutino babies when I eventually get to breeding from him.
I'm new to the genetics of ringnecks and from what I've worked out I think I need a blue female split to ino or an albino female.. I'm not sure if another lutino would be successful, or I'd just get green blue and lutino babies.

Any advice would be appreciated.

I also have a hand tame violet male ( mum was a cobalt and dad was violet) to breed violet babies - if I could ever bear to put him in an aviary- would a cobalt female possibly be successful? Or is violet recessive like in budgies??

Thanks in advance!! <3

miss lacey loo wrote:Hi all!!
I have a male lutino ( unknown parents but all nestlings were lutinos, 2 male and 1 female) and want albino and lutino babies when I eventually get to breeding from him.

Statistically, your chances of getting what you are looking for would be best with an albino hen (hens can't split for ino). However, I have never been a fan of breeding ino x ino, as back in the day (15 years ago) when I still bred with ino's, we would find that the offspring would be weaker than the parents and the eye-sight would be terrible. Regrettably, I haven't kept track regarding possible improvements on this phenomina as the ino gene pool has been much strengthened since then.

As to your other question:

miss lacey loo wrote: would a cobalt female possibly be successful? Or is violet recessive like in budgies??

Here you partly answer yourself:

miss lacey loo wrote: mum was a cobalt and dad was violet

Both cobalt (dark factor) and violet factor are incomplete dominant mutations. If you can see it, they have it. If you can't, they don't. So with a violet x cobalt you would breed blue, cobalt, violet and cobalt violet. The latter two are slightly more difficult to distinguish, unless you have both in the nest, then it is very easy.

lol, after I posted it I thought I had answered myself about the violets!!
But then I wasnt too sure just because his parents were that colour, it would be the same for him.... ;)

and I hadn't heard about the ino issues you mentioned,

in that case, I probably wont go down that road... I dont want to have sick little bubbies!! I may not even breed from him either, as he is a handreared pet..
I guess I was just exploring options.

thankyou so much for your advice!!!