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Firstly I'd like to start off saying that I'm brand new when it comes to bird genetics..ask me anything about horse colours and I'd probably know the answer..lol! But anyway here I am finding bird colours intriguing and I have a question...

Chocobo's Dad is a Grey/Green split Blue and his Mum is Blue. On the colour calculator it says you can get Blue and Blue/Grey from this cross (along with other colours) Is Grey/Blue a grey coloured bird? or is it a grey-ey-blue-ey colour?

I have searched for Blue/Grey birds and all of what I have found are pale blue birds ?

Cheers!

Heya, by default green is the setting where you have no checkboxes done (ie no change).

So you would only have to choose grey and split blue for the male, and just the blue for the hen.

(i think you were doing it right... just checking)

Blue is just blue... as you gathered heh however Grey Blue option is actually just Grey (visually)... to get the true Grey appearance, the blue gene is required, else its just the grey-green.

So a visually grey bird has blue and grey genetics. You cant have a blue bird that carries the grey gene without showing it however.

Okay, thanks! That's cleared it up.

Fah wrote:You cant have a blue bird that carries the grey gene without showing it however.

You can. An Albino GreyGreen.

Yes. I know it is not really a blue bird. But he carries also the blue gen.

Heh... well if you want to get technical... so does a creamino masking grey (turquoiseblue grey ino) an albino masking grey (blue grey ino)..

However An albino greygreen would actually be a visual lutino and have to be split to blue not being visual. (cant be visual blue and visual green).

I was just meaning a blue visual gene, cant mask a grey gene. Grey is the dominant.