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surprised lutino babies

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:21 am
by myshelby
Today I went out to check my babies in the nestbox when I got a real surprise, my two visually green parents had two green and two lutino babies. When I purchased the parents I was told they had only ever produced green babies. Does this mean that the male, female or both are spilt lutino and can I tell the sex of the babies?? Will the babies be spilts?

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 3:46 am
by pinkdevil
Congrats on your 2 little surprise packages. :D

As Fah said in an earlier post to a question I asked, a hen can not be split for ino, can only show ino. So the male is split ino which would make both your ino babies girls.

Was that correct Fah??

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:05 pm
by myshelby
Thanks for that I saw the post you are talking about but just wanted to be sure. Does this mean my green babies are boys or could they be either sex. I have great difficulty with the genetics calculater.

Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 1:07 am
by Fah
Bang on the money pink :D

The two green bubs could be either male or female, however the lutino young are definately girls.

This is what they can throw:

Male:
Green split ino
Green

Female:
Lutino
Green

Males and females are all 50% chance of either genes.