Quaker genetics, how to get a blue?

[featherzau]

Hi! I am just curious about how quaker genetics work. Does it take a blue boy to produce blue chicks or can the hen be a green split blue and the male a green?
Thanks!

[hillcresttiels]

Blue in Quakers is recessive meaning both parents must be visually blue or carry the blue gene to produce them if using splits then the odds of producing Blue decreases and both parents need to be at least split blue cheers Frank

[featherzau]

Thanks very much for that frank
I was looking to get a hen quaker and didnt want to pay split blue prices when my cock is green, I thought I needed more than a split hen for blues Though breeder assured me a split blue hen would give me blue babies

[macawvic]

featherzau said:

Thanks very much for that frank
I was looking to get a hen quaker and didnt want to pay split blue prices when my cock is green, I thought I needed more than a split hen for blues Though breeder assured me a split blue hen would give me blue babies

As Frank highlighted, the blue quaker gene is a simple recessive. The breeder who informed you that a normal green cock to a split blue hen would produce visual offsprings is providing false information. It sickens me to hear of breeders out there who are willing to make a sale by outwardly lying.

I am afraid to say that the best combination you would have with your green cock is with a visual blue hen. This will produce 100% split blue offsprings.

I have heard of breeders who are attempting to sell so called 'split cinnamon' hen lorikeets for sale. Sorry, but cinnamons are sex-linked and hens are genetically impossible to be split cinnamon. What these breeders have are fallows/isabels - recessive by nature.

My 2 cents.

Rgds
Tim

[featherzau]

Thanks for that!

[jeremy]

The so called Cinnamon in all Lorikeet species is actually a Dilute mutation. Dilute is recessive so both Cocks and Hens can be split for that particular gene