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Post by Brendan on Jan 1, 2007 14:21:34 GMT 11
i have a hen it is a lime could be grey-green not sure, but it has a few orange/red spots on it's throat and its back has never been one solid colour, it is like there is white scalloping all through the back. could it be opaline or not?
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Post by John on Jan 1, 2007 18:54:46 GMT 11
Have you got a photo Brendan? sounds like a nice bird. I picked up a cinnaman the other day that has blue on it's shoulders and small patches on it's wings.
John
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Post by Brendan on Jan 1, 2007 23:20:30 GMT 11
i will get a photo 2morrow
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Post by Brendan on Jan 3, 2007 12:02:14 GMT 11
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Post by John on Jan 4, 2007 9:59:56 GMT 11
I would have called that a cinnamon bird Brendan, just goes to show you how much I know, she is lime colour on her back. I have absolutely no idea as to the colour patches on her I will be as interested as you to hear what mutation it is.
John
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Post by oaklee on Jan 4, 2007 14:44:25 GMT 11
hello brendon she is just a plain lime hen. she is not carrying opaline. opaline changes the pigmentation of the feathers , and in the lime they go a soft lemon colour when you ad opaline. i also don`t think she is greygreen as well, see her rump how it is like a apple green colour if she was greygreen lime it would be much darker in colour, like an army green to brown colour.
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Post by Brendan on Jan 4, 2007 19:46:20 GMT 11
oaklee
if you look in the first pick you can see the rump is a darker green
(my mate thinks that it should be yellow if it is a grey-green) and it is that lighter green at the base of the tail,
she also carries the same red spots on the throat as all my other opalines do.
you also say that opaline would turn the feathers a soft lemon colour but wouldn't the grey-green darken the yellow.
if it is just a lime what would be causing that pattern on the head and neck and for all the wing feathers to have a light edge.
i konw my mate chose to breed with an opaline that had no red on it so that the young would not have red on them but white scoloping.
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Post by oaklee on Jan 4, 2007 21:00:41 GMT 11
brendan the pattern on the head and neck is just the normal markings of a lime hen. if you look at a normal hen they carry the same markings green with a tinge of blue on the shoulders this is your standard hen birds markings, without opaline or lutino or pied changing the colours. if you go to the link section and look at my website on the home page the hen on the right is a lime opaline. it looks nothing like your bird. she is also going through a moult in this pictures which doesn`t show her at her best. with the greygreen factor all 3 photos are showing me light green tinges on her rump, if she was greygreen they would be dull green to brown, not a light colour like she is.
this is my opinion only.
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Post by Brendan on Jan 4, 2007 22:45:03 GMT 11
ok i now know it is a straight lime.
just to say that she looks lik that all year round and not just in the moult
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Post by John on Jan 5, 2007 19:52:40 GMT 11
Carrying on in this mode, is this bird a cinnamon,     It is a hen and she has blue on the shoulder of the wings and red flashes on the head, I bought her as a cinnamon split to blue, any suggestions. John |
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Post by Brendan on Jan 5, 2007 20:14:52 GMT 11
it is a cinnamon
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