I must say when I opened the envelope, that I was surprised to see the 'dark purple' one in there- thought- uh- they really are all similar then- until I saw the 'bright blue' looking one underneath... lol
I think I placed those feathers in the right order- your darkest was I 'think' denser in colouring- but very close to the one next to it on the right.
I do hope you receive the feathers- I sent you the better ones. I haven't had anything lost in the mail before- but there's always a first.
I would not be surprised if both will end up being violet (sf or df) cobalt
as you said, there is a slight diff between the two
it'll be interesting to see if that's just a variation in color.
i will upload a pic soon
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Pic of the feathers
same as Shey did but instead of last being blue I added an SF Violet Green
2 in the middle are feathers of Shey's birds.my take: df violet (dark?), sf dark df/sf violet is my guess.
The diff. is very small could even be the same mutation if a slight variation of color is in play, time will tell.
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I have just sat and read through every response here and WOW, I am learning so much! Thank you, I'm not concerned with breeding at all but this is just facinating
yes, noticed the violet- I already looked at that I was thinking it was perhaps a Violet Blue Ino.
also noticed that on the other edge it had a pinkish quality
wow- so much variance- the Violet Greens are only sf? they look so much darker than the sf American Violet feather you gave- hmm
I've had & seen many violet ino birds and all looked white no violet sheen on them at all.
There are a few that one can see the violet fluorescence but i bet that's caused by another mutation.
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sheyd wrote:From the bottom up- two written in Blue are known-
Blue(one of mine)
Deep?
Deep? sf American Violet
Cobalt?
Shey/Ben, SA breeders probably won't agree with that order. Here our American violets are quite a bit darker than cobalt and very much in line with the green SF (US) violet feathers. NT violet is just a shade lighter than cobalt and very easily confused with cobalt, but that isn't the case for US violet.
Yea, Although it is a direct 4th gen bird from original, it's tail is rather light, even Shey was surprised how light it was.
I'll breed that male this year n see if he is carrying s-thing else.
We know that PR ran into a "Misty" modifier early in the game.
other than its tail, the head n body is rather dark. same modifier could be in play!?.
he is moulting and tail just starting to grow back, i'll take a photo of him in weeks to come.
I've been planning to go see the original imported hen into Oz, just did not get around to it.
PS: Johan it looks like i'm getting the vio green/ct hen sister of emerald from Aaron early next week if all goes well.
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I'm still curious to know what happened in PR's collection after that article that is now almost a decade old. How time flies!
PS: Great stuff, Ben. Hope that bird brings you lots of joy. I'll also upload some interesting comparative photos in a couple of weeks time when my birds are through their moult.
I'll send you next week some more feathers.
I have just found a few more feathers and of the Violet SL Edged mature male, I thought you might want to have it.
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Hi Shey
I have had a DF Violet hen paired to a Violet Cobalt/cinnamon cock for some years trying to get a DF Violet Cobalt and a range of Violet Cobalt cinnamons.
I think i got most of the cinnamons over time but I have found multiple structural gene combos in cinnamon impossible to separate visually. Strangely, I have never got a DF Violet Cobalt and I think that bird you posted a photo of earlier in the thread is probably the elusive DF Violet Cobalt. It looks mauver than any of the many i bred over the years, all of which were DF Violet or Violet cobalt.
Kind regards
Mike
Hi Mike - Judging from the feathers Ben sent me and the tail feather I added from one of your birds (in pic above)- I've concluded that they are dfViolet or sfViolet sfDark when looking at the sfViolet Green feather next to the one. Breeding will prove either way though. I now see how difficult it is to determine exactly what a double or triple structural mutation bird can be!
this is him not long after you sent him- he's almost finished his moult now- I find him most attractive- whatever he may be.
This year we will try for the first time to breed a DF violet DF dark from two DF violet cobalts. That will be the last in the 'series' still outstanding, except for mauve violet, in which I have never had much interest.
Already looking forward to the next season, and it is still so looooong away. Hopefully our northern hemisphere friends will soon start reporting a good season, rather than the single chicks here and there we are hearing about at this stage (still early for them, though). And I hope it is better than last year for them.
Johan S wrote:This year we will try for the first time to breed a DF violet DF dark from two DF violet cobalts. That will be the last in the 'series' still outstanding, except for mauve violet, in which I have never had much interest.
Already looking forward to the next season, and it is still so looooong away. Hopefully our northern hemisphere friends will soon start reporting a good season, rather than the single chicks here and there we are hearing about at this stage (still early for them, though). And I hope it is better than last year for them.
could perhaps one be a df Grey (do you know)? otherwise, it's probably just the variance (related to unknown modifiers ) we see across the board with all mutations.
sheyd wrote:could perhaps one be a df Grey (do you know)? otherwise, it's probably just the variance (related to unknown modifiers ) we see across the board with all mutations.
No DF i bred it from a my avatar hen.
That's "generalising" and we all do it.
like a Doc. saying to a patient: "you have cancer coz of smoking" (patient never smoked)
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Also, maybe one aviary has more sun than the other? But you are right Ben, I often walk straight past grey birds, just looking long enough to establish if it is grey or mauve.
Whatever caused that SF Grey feather to go so dark imagine if the bird would have been Violet bird ! ?
We would call it a "nice" violet or DF Violet being so dark, causing confusion...
I'd love to know why this happened without saying "minor modifiers at work".
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The young grey is young still changing its pheotype, now it has an outburst of parblue showing mainly on the saddle area.
that alone would darken the tail feather.
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The young grey is young still changing its pheotype, now it has an outburst of parblue showing mainly on the saddle area.
that alone would darken the tail feather.
Turq. should darken the tail, i wonder if that's something we can use before turquoise is visible in some feathering chicks to tell if normal or turquoise!?
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