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How valuable the green mutations are?
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:55 pm
by meong
Can somebody tell the value of a green irn in breeding diffrent color mutation? Wheter they are plit or not, can they produce a tertiary color mutaion such as white head, clear tail or any high end mutation. Tnx
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:20 am
by Jay
The only way a Green bird can produce the valuable mutations is if the actual mutation happens on its offsprings... 1/10 million chance according to Darwin.
Other than that, to breed any mutation, you need to have that mutation present in your parent birds. So, to produce a Cleartail baby, the parents have to be visual or split Cleartails.
Green birds are important because they are used to diversify and "clean up" the gene pool. Most new mutations are small and frail (result of massive inbreeding?) and to re-acquire their size and robustness, they are bred back to the wild-type Greens.
I myself retain large, healthy, and vibrantly colored Greens for my breeding program.
Thank again!
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 8:14 pm
by meong
Thank you for answering all of my questions. Pinoy ka ba?