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Lilac breast or just pretty?
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 6:18 pm
by L in Ontario
First pic - the bird in question is on the left
Second pic - in the middle
Third pic - on the right
Thoughts? Also, I'm not positive if it's male or female.

Re: Lilac breast or just pretty?
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 6:30 pm
by Justin-2-finches
Looks like a WB SFYB to me.
if it were lilac breasted i think its Body colour would be dilute green like the one in the last pic (dad i guess).
Where as white breasted would show yellow body.
Also guess Cock bird.. Have you heard it sing?
Re: Lilac breast or just pretty?
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 6:39 pm
by bugaboo5
I vote male too. A pretty fellow at that.

I have a similar bird, with a powdery pink breast. I was told my male was a WB as well.

Re: Lilac breast or just pretty?
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 6:40 pm
by cindy
they are lovely Liz...very pretty. I don't know much about gouldians but I know a pretty bird(s) when I see one(them).
Re: Lilac breast or just pretty?
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 7:05 pm
by debbie276
I'm going to go with a BH.WB.Yb male
If it were a SFYb I would think you'd see more blue ring around his head and not so bright white of a chin.
The breast may be what they call a dirty white breast which after the next molt may go white.
Pretty birds
if it were lilac breasted i think its Body colour would be dilute green like the one in the last pic
Lilac Breast acts just like White Breast not Purple Breast.
Re: Lilac breast or just pretty?
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 7:15 pm
by nelloyello11
I don't know anything aout gouldians, but I can see that he is indeed, a pretty bird!
Re: Lilac breast or just pretty?
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 8:10 pm
by L in Ontario
Thanks. I understood dirty whites were uneven in colour, splotchy or streaky.
Re: Lilac breast or just pretty?
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 8:29 pm
by lovemyfinch
Whatever the colour he is georgeous

Re: Lilac breast or just pretty?
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 9:15 pm
by Mynard
Have to agree,lovely bird indeed

Re: Lilac breast or just pretty?
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 10:12 pm
by annague
Maybe he/she will pass it on... wouldn't that be cool! It's hard to tell the powder pink from the pictures (too much glare?) but he/she's a gorgeous bird!
Re: Lilac breast or just pretty?
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 11:53 pm
by CandoAviary
well I see something different than the others...
Looks like a BH LB yellow hen to me

Very pretty bird.
What are the parents?
Re: Lilac breast or just pretty?
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 10:25 am
by L in Ontario
CandoAviary wrote:well I see something different than the others...
Looks like a BH LB yellow hen to me

Very pretty bird.
What are the parents?
That's what I was thinking as well Candace.
Her parents are:
C = RH-B,WB,SFY-B + YTB,PB,YB
However, I bought this YTB,PB,YB (mother) and 4 other hens at the same time from the same breeder and 1 of the other hens has given me two silver chicks. I only point that out because the breeder swore up and down that the hens were not split for anything.
Re: Lilac breast or just pretty?
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:12 pm
by CandoAviary
Hmmmm.. my bet is they are split for LB and BB
Don't you just love surprises

Re: Lilac breast or just pretty?
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:06 pm
by 6finchfriends
Beautiful!
Re: Lilac breast or just pretty?
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 11:59 pm
by ac12
I have a BB that had a little bit of light purple/lilac in its breast, so I thought it was somehow lilac, but it molted to a nice clean WHITE. No hint of the purple/lilac that was there before.