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We have mainly red-headed male juvs from the red-headed pair we bought in Sept. We will be getting some hens to breed to some of these this coming Fall. I was thinking of getting a few yellow-headed white breasted hens. Is there any reason this wouldn't be a good idea?

That would be fine, this is what you would get color wise as long as there aren't any hidden genes in your males. If you got YH/WB females your babies would all be visually Red head split to yellow head and purple breast split to white breast.

Chrismurdoch3 wrote: That would be fine, this is what you would get color wise as long as there aren't any hidden genes in your males. If you got YH/WB females your babies would all be visually Red head split to yellow head and purple breast split to white breast.

Thanks for the reply. To get yellow-heads do you have to breed yellow-head to yellow-head or yellow-split to yellow-split?

I always thought it was OK, until I notice that the babies from the Pairing of YH to RH had very bad color on their heads. The red was not good. I was told by a finch judge who breeds gouldians NEVER to breed RH to YH, YH to BH and BH to RH is OK.

To get YellowHead chick's the chick needs to get a YH gene from each parent. That can be from a YH parent or a split to YH parent, any combination.

Chrismurdoch3 wrote: That would be fine, this is what you would get color wise as long as there aren't any hidden genes in your males. If you got YH/WB females your babies would all be visually Red head split to yellow head and purple breast split to white breast.

Was told by the NFSS Finch Show Judge that it is not fine. The Red Heads get a very diluted color to their heads, don't do well at shows. He said breeding RH and BH and OH and BH is fine, never mix YH and RH.