Two Blues and Two Greens!

[Jen]

Looks like two of the four babies will be blue back and the other two green backs. The little guy on the left is a little scruffy looking and smaller than the others. Hope he catches up with his siblings! Time will tell. I have another BB from another clutch and he/she is looking good, but I find the BB are not as robust as their siblings. Mom of these four is an OH/PB/GB and dad is RH/PB split to blue. Keeping my fingers crossed!

[tt101]

Omg so cute!!!

Congrats, looking stunning, as expected! My gouldian pair 5 years ago had 3 dud clutches. I had to rehome them due to external circumstances but I always swore to come back to them one day! And here we are!

[debbie276]

Adorable!
Congratulations and best of luck

[MariusStegmann]

I love blue backs! Congrats Jenny. So you only need one parent to be split to blue to give you blue offspring. I thought both had to be split to blue. If you pair blue to normal, will only some of the offspring be split to blue or all of them?

[debbie276]

Both parents have to have a Blue gene to give the chick so both are split to Blue. Split to Blue and Normal will give you all split to Blue chick's.

[Jen]

Well then my OH hen must be split to blue!!! Ha! Didn't know that! I knew dad was split to blue because the breeder told me so when I purchased him at the bird fair. But the hen was purchased from a different person who didn't know any background on the her.

@Debbie I have a question. I have a pair of YH/PB goulds. The breeder told me that the male is split to blue. If I breed the male to another gould....say the OH/PB hen that is split to blue, what would I get?

Thank you!!!

[Jen]

tt101 MariusStegmann

Glad Debbie chimed in. I had no idea about both parents needing to be split to blue. I am pretty excited about my new little family. This is definitely a learning experience. Glad I'm on this forum so maybe one day I will understand this genetics thing! Happy you are back into this crazy, bird addiction tt101 I know you won't regret it. Soooo much fun!!!!!!

[debbie276]

I have a pair of YH/PB goulds. The breeder told me that the male is split to blue. If I breed the male to another gould....say the OH/PB hen that is split to blue, what would I get?

YH.PB.?/Blue and YH.PB.Green/Blue
I need to know the males body color

If they are both Green/Blue then you would get Green, Green/Blue and Blue chicks. There would be no way of knowing for sure which Green were just Green and which were split to Blue.

[Jen]

Debbie
The male is OH/PB/YB. The hen is OH/PB/GB. Both are split to blue.

[debbie276]

A YH.PB.Pastel/Blue male and YH.PB.Green/Blue would get you

males:
YH.PB.SF Pastel Blue -visually blue body and all black areas will be grey.
YH.PB.SF Pastel -visually lighter green body and all black areas will be grey.
YH.PB.Pastel/Blue -visually same as SF Pastel

hens:
YH.PB.Pastel Blue -visually white body
YH.PB.Pastel -visually yellow body
YH.PB.Pastel/Blue

[lovezebs]

Jen

Forgoing the genetic gibber gabber

Congratulations! Your babies are lovely. Look after scruffy, he may need a few extra snacks to bring him up to par

[debbie276]

Looks like "scruffy" was a later hatch which happens at times. I'm sure he will be fine and catch up quickly.

[tt101]

tt101 MariusStegmann

Glad Debbie chimed in. I had no idea about both parents needing to be split to blue. I am pretty excited about my new little family. This is definitely a learning experience. Glad I'm on this forum so maybe one day I will understand this genetics thing! Happy you are back into this crazy, bird addiction tt101 I know you won't regret it. Soooo much fun!!!!!!

Yeah because blue is a recessive trait and green is dominant! Same with purple breast vs white breast (purple is dominant here). I am happy to be back! It is such a rush to open the nest and find eggs or babies and so satisfying to see the parents raise happy healthy babies. I personally love gouldians because there is always that chance of a surprise! Since being split won't show the other color! But my breeder normally knows her colors well and their family lines!

I may end up with forbes parrot finches this time instead. Love those birds!

[Sam007]

They are looking great! Congratulations!

[Rox]

Congrats Jen and what a fantastic surprise knowing that your hen is split for blue! Bonus!