Post by oaklee on Feb 7, 2006 22:58:22 GMT 11
as i was saying in other posts it is important that you wait for a few months to let the juvenile birds moult out there baby feathers and once this is done there adult feathers will grow threw and the bird will darken up and in some cases almost change colour. i will give you an example.
okay the cinnamon bird on the left hand side second from the top left the nest and i would of bet money it was a cinnamon hen.
about 2 months later i was about to sell it to jodabry from this forum as a cinnamon / blue hen. i caught her up and noticed three small red spots on her rump, so i said its not for sale at the moment as i now think it is a cock bird therefore cinnamon / blue / opaline . still not believing it to be a greygreen cinnamon. so it sat in my holding cage for another six weeks. i went on holidays for two weeks at the end of this six week period and when i came home the original cinnamon hen turned cinnamon cock had become this.
as you can see a mustard or greygreen cinnamon cock bird. it had literally changed colour whilst i was on holidays for 2 weeks.
so the lesson here is don`t be to quick to judge wether a bird is normal or greygreen factor give them time to mature and darken up. i have learnt the hard way by selling birds as cinnamon blue opalines and cinnamon opalines in the early days of the greygreen series when they were still very expensive to later find out the following year that i had sold them cinnamon grey opalines and greygreen cinnamon opalines instead. so i had sold $400 and $500 birds for $50 and $100 each at the time.
fox and jodabry will vouch for this little tale i have just told you people.
as it turned out the only bird that was normal factor was the blue opaline hen in the bottom right corner all the rest were greygreen series birds.
patience is the key to breeding good red rumps.
okay the cinnamon bird on the left hand side second from the top left the nest and i would of bet money it was a cinnamon hen.
about 2 months later i was about to sell it to jodabry from this forum as a cinnamon / blue hen. i caught her up and noticed three small red spots on her rump, so i said its not for sale at the moment as i now think it is a cock bird therefore cinnamon / blue / opaline . still not believing it to be a greygreen cinnamon. so it sat in my holding cage for another six weeks. i went on holidays for two weeks at the end of this six week period and when i came home the original cinnamon hen turned cinnamon cock had become this.
as you can see a mustard or greygreen cinnamon cock bird. it had literally changed colour whilst i was on holidays for 2 weeks.
so the lesson here is don`t be to quick to judge wether a bird is normal or greygreen factor give them time to mature and darken up. i have learnt the hard way by selling birds as cinnamon blue opalines and cinnamon opalines in the early days of the greygreen series when they were still very expensive to later find out the following year that i had sold them cinnamon grey opalines and greygreen cinnamon opalines instead. so i had sold $400 and $500 birds for $50 and $100 each at the time.
fox and jodabry will vouch for this little tale i have just told you people.
as it turned out the only bird that was normal factor was the blue opaline hen in the bottom right corner all the rest were greygreen series birds.
patience is the key to breeding good red rumps.
