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Re: color mutation
Posted by Andie on 5/25/06

Actually the grey color on the wings has nothing to do with dark
factors. If one of your birds has brown or grey flight feathers
that means it's a cinnamon mutation. The dark factors do tend to
make the body feathers different shades, but the most noticable
place is the rump color. A bird with no dark factors has a light
blue rump, single dark factor has a cobalt rump, and double dark
factor has a grey rump. The violet factors will also play a part
in the coloration of the bird and rump, but the dark factors will
be more noticable in the rump. You can do a search and look at
pictures of different mutations.

Andie

On 5/25/06, mary wrote:
> thanks Andie,
> I kind of thought they would be considered slates but wasn't
> sure....this genetics stuff is HARD!!!! I'm new to Lovebird
> breeding and all the different color combinations is
> staggering to the imagination! Both of the parents are blue
> violets but the male definitely has more grey coloring on the
> wings then the hen. thanks again! This is a great site for
> information!!!
> Mary

Posts on this thread, including this one

• color mutation, 5/24/06, by Mary.
• Re: color mutation, 5/25/06, by Andie.
• Re: color mutation, 5/25/06, by mary.
• Re: color mutation, 5/25/06, by Andie.