My first Yellow-back Goulds

[nixity]

Yea at this point that is my guess...

[CandoAviary]

I already did - SF Male and DF Male

Am I missing something or just brain dead John Boy says they are purple breast so the sf would be a dilute (with darker back)unless split for WB or LB. Do you think the single factor male is split?
That is what it looks like to me but not in the case of purple breast, it just wouldn't be that light ..... would it?

[nixity]

He said they were pb yes but I am assuming the parents are split to wb otherwise I suppose its possible he is just a very 'yellow' dilute but he is definitely SF.

I am saying the bird might be a wb sf.
I have never noticed any difference in color in birds that are split for wb or lb.

[CandoAviary]

Okay, we are on the same page then .
The reference to /WB or /LB was refering to the parent birds not the chicks. I have never noticed a back color difference in spliit birds either...
but I am thinking John Boy may have parent birds that are split to WB or LB.

Well JohnBoy... at least you have the boys you want...now just get them to color out so we can see what color breast they are going to have

[JohnBoy]

I really don't know if they are split to anything. The female I bought in Nov. from Emily (Gammys Finches) The male came from Bill Lambert. Also bought in Nov. I guess I need to get in touch with them but I doubt they will remember the birds. I need to ask more questions when I purchase. I get so excited when I see a bird I like I forget to ask for info I should have about the birds.

[CandoAviary]

JohnBoy, you don't really need to ask. You will be able to tell what the parents have in them by the chicks that they through. Many times when I bought my gouldians the breeders either didn't know, didn't tell me, or I forgot to ask. So when my red head, purple breast, green back pair through a white breast then I knew they both had to be split to white breast... and boy was I surprized.
Also got my first blue chick that way. I had bred 2 RH, PB, GB together and got a funny grey chick LOL... didn't even know I had a blue until Tiffany pointed it out to me but then I knew that both parents had to be split to blue. Sometimes learning what you have by being surprized by what is in your nest is the best way to learn... plus you get chicks to boot My latest surprize was from an OH PB dilute and an OH PB GB hen..... in the nest I got a silver, 2 blues, a 1 dilute! so both parents have to be split for blue. The hen I had even bred myself and I had no idea. The blue had never shown up in the previous years breeding ... and that was because I only had one parent that was split to blue and this hen got that blue gene
I had sold many of those chicks (siblings) and didn't know if they were /blue so hopefully someone got a pleasant surprize in their nest too