We have recently acquired a pair of IRN's for breeding. The male is very unusual compared to what I have seen in person or online and I can't find anything quite like him. His head is green, his chest, stomach & rump are pure blue and his wings are almost a turquoise. His feet are a pinkish color with gray nails. Both his upper & lower mandible are red. The person we got him from had him paired with a green lacewing hen, with no luck. First can anyone tell me what color this bird would be considered? Someone told me a Padilla but can't find anything about any such mutation so think that's smoke......Second, what kind of hen should we put him with? I would like to pair him with a younger hen we have that will be 2 next spring. She's a very very pale turquoise (silver maybe?) I will post pics of her soon. We also have a chocolate hen the same age, a cremino hen, a cinnamon grey hen, a lutino/blue hen and a couple of normal green hens. I'll keep this short & will give more info in future postings.
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Color identification & pairing advice
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Thank you & he's one of the biggest IRN's I've ever seen too. The hen he is with is the first lacewing in our flock & I need some advice on what I should pair her with also. They are feeding each other as I type. Scott wants to leave them together this season but our friend says we should have him with a blue series female. That's why I need advice.
I wouldn't describe it as being "body pure blue" unless maybe color blind (sorry if you are 
) when you say green head and pure blue we/I got a completely different picture of what it was. It looks similar to my hen.
check out this thread http://indianringneck.com/board/viewtop ... ght=#24342 a couple of posts down Jeremy has a bird that looks like what it may be.
) when you say green head and pure blue we/I got a completely different picture of what it was. It looks similar to my hen.check out this thread http://indianringneck.com/board/viewtop ... ght=#24342 a couple of posts down Jeremy has a bird that looks like what it may be.
Hey Julie, Thanks for the link. When I said pure blue I meant that he didn't have any green mingled in on his chest. I have another Turquoise bird which has the green mingled in with blue over his whole body, so now I'm color confused......what's the difference between a Turquoise & a TurquoiseBlue?
And seeing the pic on that link, my young female might be a Cinn. Turq. or a Cinn. TurqBl. I have to get pics up of her, my head is going to exlode with all these colors. I still need to get into the GenCalc....this female was purchased as part of a clutch we got out of nest to feed out last spring '08. We wee told the father was a DF Turq & mother a normal blue. The babies ended up being a Cremino Hen, a very light Turq. Hen (Cinn? almost has a silverish look), and 3 Turq Males. So one of them had to be split to INO, right? Unfortunately he sold the parents as well, before we got the babies, so we never saw them.
And seeing the pic on that link, my young female might be a Cinn. Turq. or a Cinn. TurqBl. I have to get pics up of her, my head is going to exlode with all these colors. I still need to get into the GenCalc....this female was purchased as part of a clutch we got out of nest to feed out last spring '08. We wee told the father was a DF Turq & mother a normal blue. The babies ended up being a Cremino Hen, a very light Turq. Hen (Cinn? almost has a silverish look), and 3 Turq Males. So one of them had to be split to INO, right? Unfortunately he sold the parents as well, before we got the babies, so we never saw them.