Seagreen Gouldian

[CandoAviary]

Gouldians are for me a way to be in "dream space" and really efficient way to put problems away!

I couldn't agree more

[Vertdemer]

Hi everybody...

Sorrily, I've lost my really special hen last week, probably from coccidiosis... a nightmare that I've experience month ago with two other hens...
It was surely my fault, had a too busy week and when I finnaly get sulfas, it was too late for my sea green...
She seems to be weak for at least two weeks and I remark that her legs were really "white", as if she had some anemia...she flys less and jumps to perch. Maybe she has a malabsorption problem that gives her gorgeous colors but lack of essential nutrients?? It will probably be I good idea to mix some new blood with the sister of my past sea green...
I won't know...I treat all my birds and now, everything seems ok

Some pictures of my lost beauty... I'm not sure if it a malabsorption problem, a green back pied to blue...? Some feathers of her rump seem purplish...

[nixity]

Oh no Isa, so sorry you lost such a gorgeous baby

[Vertdemer]

Oh no Isa, so sorry you lost such a gorgeous baby

Thanks Nixity... ...and happy birthday!!!
Never happy to lost birds and really bad felling when it is special bird...
That was quite a chance that her sister survived to this bad sequence...
Some pictures of her...

[CandoAviary]

Very sorry for your loss of the special lady. Thankfully whatever the case she was the only one affected.

[lovemyfinch]

Sorry for your loss Isa

[bernd76287]

Hallo
I want show to you a pic of the SF Yellow of post 144.
Look at the diffenrence between this two SFYs.

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[bernd76287]

Hallo
I want show to you a pic of the SF Yellow of post 144.
Look at the diffenrence between this two SFYs.

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[CandoAviary]

Nice, He looks like he has clear wings

[birdclaws]

What is the average selling price of a seagreen gouldian?

[CandoAviary]

What is the average selling price of a seagreen gouldian?

I don't know, I have never seen any for sale.

[Vertdemer]

I've bought one maybe four years ago to a breeder for $150,00CAD... .Since that, this breeder stop finch breeding...I bought an other for $60,00...the breeder even notice that was a sea green but the bird molt and I can't say if this bird is sea green again...so it wasn't a bargain...
I think their's a breeder in Ontario who "specialized" on sea green and if I remember well, I ask $235,00 each...but I'm not sure...at ladygouldianfinch-ca.com

Actually, I don't sell my gouldians who seem "sea green" or Opaline(Their colors stay molt after molt...) I want to get really blue stock before starting to sell them...

[annague]

So sorry for your loss, Isa.

These things happen to us all. Hopefully you will get another just as beautiful and unusual very soon.

[bernd76287]

Nice, He looks like he has clear wings

I forgot --- Isa sorry for loosing your seagreen
But this happen nearly(??) to all breeders.
The seagreen gouldians confuses me more and more.
Now I got from my "pied" female a seagreen daughter.

[Vertdemer]

Wow! Really nice one!
Maybe sea green gene is like the "yellow factor"...? Where battle between green and yellow gives a large range of color field...in-between yellow and green...the same for sea green? a large range in-between green and blue??? The first one I've saw with the bluish green back was a single pastel male and he gave my special bluish green back hen when mate with a yellow hen... maybe the yellow factor as to play a role when the genes are split and reassemble at the first step of the conception? Just hypothesis... (Probably just a "bubble of crazy thoughts"...!)

P.S. Bernd, when you referred of the number of older post(like#144), it doesn't work because the number change each time you post a new one...! Maybe describe the picture or it's title?!?