Last time, what mutation?(17 pics) BB??

[LuxandLolita]

interesting! so fawn is impossible for males unless the male(father) is visual? huh, pretty cool! if he is fawn split, then i have no females in my clutch

[cindy]

No a male can be split to fawn...and produce
25% Normal Females
25% Normal Males
25% Fawn Females
25% Normal/Fawn Males


A male can be a visual fawn....he will produce
50% Fawn Females
50% Normal/Fawn Males

A visual fawn male and a visual fawn female
will produce
50% Fawn Females
50% Fawn Males

[LuxandLolita]

oh i see! whatever. i cannot wait til my babies color in! GRR Gus's beak is starting to color on the bottom i think you can see it in one of the pictures!its of Gus's face, you can barely see pink at the bottom of the beak! woot!

[LuxandLolita]

Well i was watching Lux and he was preening his feathers. the bottom looked odd, so i got a chance to grab him so i took a closer look, and he has brownish flecks in the feathers! what is this???
Here are the pictures! he is so pretty!
Here is Lux just sittin' there
Now take a close look at his inner wing:

[DanteD716]

They both look grey to me, I will look at the pictures a bit closer. Usually both parents have to be split to get a mutation in the babies so your babies are most likely normal. Lux may be split to fawn.

[DanteD716]

I see the white tail feathers alot in normal greys. It can be because she was plucked that they are growing in white

[cindy]

split to fawn....

[LuxandLolita]

So i posted pictures of Lolita's tail feathers but they were still growing in. Here is lolita now that she has grown them in some.
This is with the light shining on it. Irregular feathers.

[DanteD716]

Normal, but glad she's feathering up

[LuxandLolita]

they don't look irregular.. at all...?
that white feathers are edged black if you look close.
and she is adult.

[DanteD716]

It's only because they were plucked. Cindy may know, she has more experience then me

[cindy]

Katie, there are only a few mutations that give clues for a splt in the tail feathers...and it is not always exact...the proof as said before is when you breed the bird...until then it is difficult to say if the bird is split unless there are definate indicators as stated in previous posts. Right now your birds are what we started they are in previous topics.

also if you could try resizing your future pictures to a smaller size it would help in going back to look at them and posting a reply. They are rather large.

[LuxandLolita]

sorry

[cindy]

Katie...it is ok....it is just hard when you hope you have a certain mutation and it isn't...trust me, I've been there...so you need to learn what you need to combine what you have with what you need to create the mutation. It takes a while to learn the whole mutation thing...in the mean time read the websites we gave you, it will help!

[LuxandLolita]

i have i have! efinch basically gives a general definition and such. I really need to stop being impatient is all.
goodness.
well the babies are getting their beak colors. still not feathers but again, they are only 31 days old today!

Just checked, I also noticed that it goes in order of size of tear mark for my chicks, Gus has a regular one-though it seems short.
Falcon has a thinner one and then Tahny has this REALLY thin tear mark!