How early can you tell a turquoise vs. a blue baby.
We have a clutch of 4 babies, 3 are pinning out and feathers look blue but in the pics they look green so thinking maybe a turquoise.
Dad is a blue and mom is a lutino, obviously split. Unfortunately the records we got with our pairs, colors werent always noted to be correct.
Anyways the babies feathers are looking blue, like a country blue with no signs of green right now but I know in blue and turquoise, they can look similar. So I am wondering if it takes a bit to determine the difference in color.
Thanks for your help.
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Hello Kare,
Turquoise is probably the mutation that has the most visual variance among individual birds, ranging from Blueish to Turquoise to Greenish and every hue combination in between. Some have patchy and some have diffused coloration. Genetic experts believe this results from the action of color modifying genes that birds inherit along with the mutant genes themselves.
This considered, it's probably too early to tell what the phenotype(appearance) will be. If the babies are just starting to pin out, they are probably around their third week, so wait a little longer. I've heard stories of seemingly Blue birds turned out to be Turquoise after a moult. Some Turquoise birds attain their true coloration after several moults.
Turquoise is probably the mutation that has the most visual variance among individual birds, ranging from Blueish to Turquoise to Greenish and every hue combination in between. Some have patchy and some have diffused coloration. Genetic experts believe this results from the action of color modifying genes that birds inherit along with the mutant genes themselves.
This considered, it's probably too early to tell what the phenotype(appearance) will be. If the babies are just starting to pin out, they are probably around their third week, so wait a little longer. I've heard stories of seemingly Blue birds turned out to be Turquoise after a moult. Some Turquoise birds attain their true coloration after several moults.