Pairing a Silver Cock with a Split to blue Hen

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Pairing a Silver Cock with a Split to blue Hen

Post by LeagueCityGoulds » Mon Dec 27, 2010 10:59 pm

Please Tell me im ok with pairing a Silver White Breast Male with a red head lilac breast split to blue hen. And possibly Can anyone tell me what i will come out with.

20 Normalback Goulds
1 Silver Gould Male
3 Recessive Silver Zebras
5 Societys

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Re: Pairing a Silver Cock with a Split to blue Hen

Post by CandoAviary » Mon Dec 27, 2010 11:21 pm

That sounds like a fine pairing. Here is a gouldian genetic forcastor that will show you all the possible offsprings and the percentage thereof.

http://www.amadinagouldove.cz/gouldian- ... e/english/

You didn't mention the males head color or if the hen was yellow split to blue or green split to blue......

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Re: Pairing a Silver Cock with a Split to blue Hen

Post by debbie276 » Tue Dec 28, 2010 6:37 am

Assuming your male is also a Red Head and the hen is normal split to blue (because your signature says 20 normal and 1 silver gould) AND assuming there are no hidden genes you are unaware of you could get:

All chicks will be Red Head and Lilac Breast split to White Breast.

Males will be either SF YellowBlue or SF Yellow split to Blue
Because he is Lilac Breasted the SF YellowBlue will be visually white AKA "silver" and not Blue like a purple breasted SF YellowBlue AKA "Pastel".
And a SF Yellow/Blue will Visually be Yellow and not green AKA "dilute" like a PB would, again because of the Lilac Breast.

The hens will either be YellowBlue AKA "silver" or Yellow split to Blue

Best of luck with them!
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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