trabots wrote:Peter, this image has been posted before. It definately has at least one Violet factor, probably two, and looks to me like it has at least a 3rd structural mutation, either Dark or what I call Deep. 4 structural mutations in that bird would not surprise me at all.
prodigy wrote:Thanks a million for the input, what we have seen in the breeding results point to the bird being a DF violet cobalt Deep.
Guys, my apologies for repeatedly being stubborn about these structural mutations, but it is my believe that you are going in the wrong direction. Repeated addition of structural mutations will saturate the colour towards mauve. For your perusal and thoughts, a SF violet cock and some of his offspring from with a SF dark SF violet hen (all birds from the american violet line, to be clear and not confused with other 'violets'). The bird that Peter posted is still a long way off from the SF dark DF violet chick in these pictures. My guess is that bird is SF dark SF violet, of SF dark SF violet SF deep.
Like Willy has mentioned in the past, we can talk about pictures all we like, but compare main tail feathers (real ones!) to be certain. Anybody who wants to compare these, are more than welcome to message me. My motivation with this is not to see if yours are darker than mine, or mine darker than yours, but to SORT OUT this mess that is structural mutations in IRN. The tools exist, they just need to be utilised.