My silver Gould Has blue feathers

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My silver Gould Has blue feathers

Post by LeagueCityGoulds » Sun Jan 02, 2011 3:41 pm

My silver white breast male gould ive noticed has some light blue feathers coming in on his back and a few flight feathers have light blue on them. Is this Normal Or is he actually a pastel blue? Ill try to post a pic

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Re: My silver Gould Has blue feathers

Post by lovemyfinch » Sun Jan 02, 2011 3:46 pm

I am assuming that a pic would definately help to shed some light on the situation. If he is getting some blue feathering IMHO he probably is a pastel..
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Re: My silver Gould Has blue feathers

Post by LeagueCityGoulds » Sun Jan 02, 2011 3:57 pm

Here the pic but the blue feathers are kinda hard to see on the pic but its to the left of his midline neck
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Re: My silver Gould Has blue feathers

Post by debbie276 » Sun Jan 02, 2011 4:15 pm

I cant get a larger picture of your bird and it may be my monitor but the whole back seems like it's light blue. How old is he and is he finished with his adult moult yet??
Are you sure it's not a SFYellowBlue and because of the white breast it appears "silver"
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Re: My silver Gould Has blue feathers

Post by LeagueCityGoulds » Sun Jan 02, 2011 5:39 pm

I have no idea what i have All i know is he was hatched around 4-5 months ago. He is all white/silver with white coming in on his breast he does sing so im guess he is a he lol. no he hasnt gone through his adult molt yet. im gonna find out from my friend whom i got him from what his parents are

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Re: My silver Gould Has blue feathers

Post by GOULDYGIRL » Sun Jan 02, 2011 5:44 pm

Sounds like what Debbie said. You have a wb pastel which appears silver because of the WB. I have one as well and hope mine has as much blue when he gets his adult feathers. I think it's so pretty.

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Re: My silver Gould Has blue feathers

Post by LeagueCityGoulds » Sun Jan 02, 2011 6:06 pm

Heres Another pic
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Re: My silver Gould Has blue feathers

Post by bernd76287 » Mon Jan 03, 2011 3:11 pm

Hallo!
Pastels often have some blue/ black feathers, because they have only one yellow/pastel factor.
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But some of my my double factor silvers are light blue on the back. Looks nice for me.

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