I have a few breeding color questions.

crazyparrot · Post by **crazyparrot** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 6:21 pm

Hi,
I have a few pairs and I was wondering what I might get.
Pair #1 is a green male with a blue female, they recently hatched 4 babies, but they have no colors yet. I know nothing of the pair's past.
Pair #2 is a white hen with a green male, this green male is the brother to 2 lutinos, one of which I know is a hen. And pair #3 is a blue male with a yellow female, again, I know nothing of their family.

Also, how long does it take for 2 IRN's to breed when put together? The female bred last year (previous owner) and then her mate took off, she is supposedly 3 or 4 years old, and the male is 7 according to his band but I don't know if he has ever bred.
Please, if you could email me a reply directly to bleudabadi@aol.com I would really appreciate it as I do not know how to get back to forums.

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 4:57 pm

Pair #1 you get Green split Blues males and hens, written as Green/Blue or visual Green babies with a hidden Blue genes. If the male happens to be a Green/Blue... then 50% of your babies will be visual Blues.

Pair#2 You get Green/Blue/Ino males and Green/Blue hens. The male has a possibility of being split to Ino (try to find out what his parents were). So if he is indeed split Ino, you get an extra color on both genders which is Lutino/Blue.

Pair#3 Will give you Green/Blue/Ino males and Green/Blue hens.

There is no set time when Mature IRNs will breed, it all depends on how much they like each other. I've set up dozens and dozens of pairs and every single one of them had bred for me so far. Some pairs were mating the first day together, while another pair took over two months.