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Post by le13 on Jan 27, 2011 4:55:27 GMT 10
hi all ..,am new here!i buy 2 ringnecks the male is normal green and the female is lutino,can this colores breed?
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Post by vankarhi on Jan 27, 2011 14:16:46 GMT 10
Ok firstly welcome.......... ;D
Secondly I will move this to a more appropriate section so it will be answered ;D
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Post by le13 on Jan 27, 2011 20:10:54 GMT 10
can anybody help me please...can these birds mate?
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Post by avinet on Jan 27, 2011 21:26:00 GMT 10
hi all ..,am new here!i buy 2 ringnecks the male is normal green and the female is lutino,can this colores breed? Hi, Now it has been moved into the Ringneck forum I can reply to your question. All the different colours of ringnecks will breed with each other - they have absolutely no colour prejudice  In your case the green male and yellow female will, if they are not carrying any other hidden colour genes, produce only green babies and the sons will be split to lutino. The daughters will not be split to anything , they will be pure greens. Split means that they carry a gene for a colour (lutino in this case) but do not visually show the colour. If your male is split to lutino then half the babies will be lutino, and can be of either sex. If both birds were split to blue then half the babies would be blue but if only one of the parents were split to blue then no blue babies can emerge. If you are really lucky and they are both split to blue and the male is also split lutino then it gets really interesting!! On average, if they had a total of 16 babies (obviously over several clutches) you would end up with 6 green, 6 lutino, 2 blue and 2 albino (pure white) babies. However I'm afraid the chances are that they are what they visibly look like and green babies are the result. Anything extra is a bonus. However if the first nest or two is all green, don't totally give up. I had a pair of greens that produced about 9 green babies for me before a yellow baby caught us by surprise. I had assumed they were just green birds but the yellow baby showed the male was split to green. Next nest they produced another 2 yellow and 1 green to make the average back to the 1 in 4 yellow it should have been. cheers, Mike |
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Post by le13 on Jan 27, 2011 22:37:25 GMT 10
Can i find out thier age, i dont know anything about them...  .Is their age a problem to mate (the one older than the other?) |
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Post by le13 on Jan 27, 2011 22:50:14 GMT 10
thank you very much mike!!!  i think they like its other ...the female is only one week in the same cage with the male and they look they wont have a problem(sorry for my english am not very good) |
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Post by avinet on Jan 28, 2011 9:29:12 GMT 10
Can i find out thier age, i dont know anything about them... .Is their age a problem to mate (the one older than the other?) No, it is not possible to say what age ringnecks are once they reach 2 years, when the male will have the ring around the neck. Age is immaterial from a breeding perspective as long as they are 2 or older. I have an 18 year old pair that still breed, and in fact the oldest ringneck I ever heard about was 67 when he died and he was breeding until he was 66! cheers, Mike |
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.Is their age a problem to mate (the one older than the other?)
i think they like its other ...the female is only one week in the same cage with the male and they look they wont have a problem(sorry for my english am not very good)