Grey or blue head?

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Grey or blue head?

Post by LouisB » Mon Aug 22, 2016 3:22 am

Hi,this is a SF BH WB but look the head colour.Is this normal on a SF?
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Re: Grey or blue head?

Post by ALittleBirdKeeper » Tue Aug 23, 2016 2:29 pm

Greetings!

Yeah, Yellow prohibits black so with a black head yellow (even single factor) the head gets washed out to a grey - have you seen the neck line on a red headed yellow? It gets washed out to a bluey grey too. Its similar to how a blue gouldian cannot show a red head - the blue colouring can't show red so that gets rinsed out to like a straw sorta colouring too.

Colour with a U ;)

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Re: Grey or blue head?

Post by debbie276 » Tue Aug 23, 2016 3:33 pm

In a SF Pastel, the single pastel gene makes all of the areas that would normally be black turn grey. DF Pastel, the two pastel genes prevent all normally black areas to turn white.
Perfectly normal coloring for a SF Pastel
pretty bird!
Debbie
long time breeder of lady gouldians:
Green
SF Pastel (SF Yellow)
Pastel (Yellow)
Blue
SF Pastel Blue (SF Yellow Blue)
Pastel Blue (Yellow Blue)

GREAT articles on avian lighting:
https://mickaboo.org/confluence/downloa ... ummary.pdf
http://www.naturallighting.com/cart/sto ... sc_page=56

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Re: Grey or blue head?

Post by Stuart whiting » Tue Aug 23, 2016 7:42 pm

ALittleBirdKeeper wrote: Greetings!

Yeah, Yellow prohibits black so with a black head yellow (even single factor) the head gets washed out to a grey - have you seen the neck line on a red headed yellow? It gets washed out to a bluey grey too. Its similar to how a blue gouldian cannot show a red head - the blue colouring can't show red so that gets rinsed out to like a straw sorta colouring too.

Colour with a U ;)
Absolutely agree 100 % :-BD

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Re: Grey or blue head?

Post by LouisB » Wed Aug 24, 2016 3:28 am

Thanks!
I will remember that.

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22 pairs normal gouldians
1 black head purple breast blue cock
1 yellow split for blue hen[color

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