Hola!
Just curious if anyone here in Australia is or has or sells or god knows what any colour mutations of the Alexandrines.
I only seem to hear about or see green Alex's. I know their is a heavily reduced mutation spread compared to IRN's for example. Though I know they are about there somewhere.
Alexandrines and the Colour mutations!
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Here are some of the mutations known. I'm gathering that a mutation of an Alexandrine is rare since you almost never hear or see any of them?
http://home.wanadoo.nl/psittaculaworld/Mutations/P-eupatria.htm
http://home.wanadoo.nl/psittaculaworld/Mutations/P-eupatria.htm
"Jibby aka Gilbert" Indian Ringneck 13 years "Charlie" Rex Rabbit 1 year
Because IRN and alex are in the same family they breed quite well.
a local petstore has a male alex/irn and you would never know it was part irn.
talking to my local expert, he said they only way to get colour mutations is to breed the 2, alex and lutino irn, not sure what way it has to be, but he is trying to start a breeding line fo lutino Alex, he's on to his 3rd generation (i think), he said it takes 5 generations to establish it as a breed.
damn thats a long time.
a local petstore has a male alex/irn and you would never know it was part irn.
talking to my local expert, he said they only way to get colour mutations is to breed the 2, alex and lutino irn, not sure what way it has to be, but he is trying to start a breeding line fo lutino Alex, he's on to his 3rd generation (i think), he said it takes 5 generations to establish it as a breed.
damn thats a long time.
Adam and Dude
I am very tempted to look into the genetic constraints behind the blending of the two (alex and irn).
Check out this site http://www.irnmutations.com/
I might have to get into this myself.
Check out this site http://www.irnmutations.com/
I might have to get into this myself.
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