some of my birds (more pictures)

[fox]

this is a grey/platinum x platinum opaline/blue. the cock is a 2nd generation bird that i've breed and now there young are flyin.



these are a opaline/blue/platinum x grey-green platinum/blue, the cock bird is the son of the hen above. and the hen i bred a few years back, at the time i couldn't find anyone else who had breed the two colours together. she is quiet defferent compared to a platinum hen.



this is a cinnamon blue x fawn. unfurtunatly the hen died just as the season started a few years back. lots of people have the fawn opaline these's days, but not maby people have or had a fawn hen, wish she wouldn't of died, lost a lot of money on her.



this pair is blue/platinum/opaline x blue platinum. this pair was one of the first pair in the country to produce a blue platinum cock bird. the blue cock bird was about 8 years old when i got rid of himlast year. and fo his age he knew what to do with it if you knomw what i mean . they produced over 20 babies in the 2 years i had them, about 10 blue platinum's in total



this pair is a blue platinum x grey-green/blue. this pair is such a contrast when you look at them, makes me wish that i didn't split them up. the grey/platinum cock in the first picture is the son of this pair. and like his old man, they are two of the biggest redy's i've ever seen.
so what do people think of these birds?.

[ena]

Wow what beautiful birds, I hope to be there one day in the distant future I'm sure.

[John]

They are beautiful birds fox you are giving me something to aim for, looking at your birds and the birds on oaklee's website makes me even more determined to have more of these birds, you are both to be congratulated.

John

[viraba]

I'm still amazed at how you guys keep track of all the different strains and splits. Some beautiful birds to aim for isn't there.

Viraba

[vankarhi]

very pretty birds, they sort of look (to the untrained eye) like bourkes parrots (shape wise). I am a total novice here as you can probably guess (smile). But very pretty birds.

[fox]

well vankarhi, i would say that bourke parrots look sort of like the grassy, only in the rough shape of them. the grassy is a far bit bigger.

[bubbles]

they are so beautiful, have to put a few of those mutations on my wishlist

[fox]

thanks bubbles. in the coming weeks i am going to put up extra picture.

[fox]

these 2 birds are going to be paired up for next year again, the eggs were lost this year from all the heat that we had in sydney, and i wasn't there to try and keep the heat down when they needed it. the bird on the left is a fawn opaline pied hen and her partner is a blue opaline pied cock.



this bird i believe is the first grey-green platinum cock breed in the country. took me a few years, but i did it. as you can see he isn't fully coloured up yet, his head is starting to colour up, hopefully his head will end up the same colour as the few spots that are there already.
so what do people think. his certainly a different coloured bird, and in the future i hope to richen the colour up and try and mix in further colours into the mix.

[John]

I think he ? is fantastic what an unusual colour, to make the colour richer what will you put with it and what do you think the final colour will be.

John

[ddddd]

What a beautiful bird, can't wait to see when you breed some DF Grey-green Platinums

[fox]

john to make the colour richer would just require more of them breed and to slective breed them. and the final colour should end up similiar to what the small patch on his head looks like. and ddddd, i'll have to wait till next breeding season because this coming season he isn't going with another dark factor birds, well not straight away. we'll have to wait and see.

[John]

fox said:

john to make the colour richer would just require more of them breed and to selective breed them. and the final colour should end up similar to what the small patch on his head looks like. and ddddd, I'll have to wait till next breeding season because this coming season he isn't going with another dark factor birds, well not straight away. we'll have to wait and see.

Okay I have to ask this question fox if this bird is the first one bred in Australia and the only way to make the colour richer is to selectively breed them with darker coloured birds means that you will have to breed sibling to sibling? is that right and do you see any dander in doing this.

John

[oaklee]

not necessarily john. there is no need to breed sibling to sibling yet. i have got 3 greygreen platinum / blue hens this season and i know fox has one as well. also there is that cock in the photo. plus between fox and myself we have 4 grey / platinum / opaline cock birds. this has taken us 2 seasons to get them this far. so now once they are all paired up this coming season we hope to have at least 10 greygreen or grey factor platinums. so then it is just a case of selecting the best marked birds to continue the program. and then possible pairing greygreen platinum to greygreen platinum to see what a double factor looks like. you see most of the bigger breeders have all gone to the lime series and left the platinums alone. fox and i have cosentrated on establishing the grey platinums instead.

[John]

Thanks for that info Matt, can i ask you what your original pairings were to get that mutation in the first place, or am i being too noisy here I am really interested in this, the lengths that you guys go to just to get a certain colour I am really getting in to this and I cant wait till next breeding season.

John