moonlight snowflake

[allen]

ok since i have had moonlight and snowflake i have had my doubts i got them in late summer and the last week i seperated them then yesterday i put them back together well this morning in fact just 10 minutes ago they have just started mating snowflake is my fallow moonlight is my heavy pied in fact moonlight is in the nest box as i type this

[kimmikefids]

thats great allen!!! hope it results in eggies!

[crazy4tiels88]

They will make lovely babies if you get fertile eggs the first time!!

[allen]

they have been breeders before so i expect great results

[sweetrsue]

Good luck with your pair! I hope all goes well!

[allen]

i am so glad they have started to mate

[allen]

just to let you no it was not just a one day thing with them mating they are still mating
yipeeeeeeeee

[sweetrsue]

I usually let them go at it for a week before I put them in a breeding cage with a box. More fertile eggs that way.

[allen]

ok this is the pair that is going to have some gorgious chicks

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb207/birdcrazzy/Picture042-1.jpg

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb207/birdcrazzy/Picture043-2.jpg

[sweetrsue]

Hey!....Those pictures are X rated!

[kimmikefids]

oh my!! :o lol

[atvchick95]

looks like a normal day at my house :P at least they're nice enough not to do it in front of a window that has a heavily used road outside of it :P

[kimmikefids]

lmao....mommy...whats that birdie doing to the other birdie??? just playing honey....lmao

[allen]

ok looks like they are going to start laying very soon as the both of them are going in and out of the box all dayso i expect any day now

[sweetrsue]

It will be interesting to see what the babies look like

[allen]

the more i think the more i belive he is not fallow

[huskymom]

those babies will be gorgeous!!

[allen]

ok i have decided that i will be keeping one of the females and one of the males and no i will not let them mate together both me and sweetrsue agree that the male is not fallow and the female is a saddle back i,ll let sweetrsue explain more in detail

[sweetrsue]

Uh...OK...The female is a heavy pied. She has the feathers arranged on her back in a very symmetrical pattern. One side mirrors the other in such a way as to look as if she is wearing a saddle...hence Saddleback Pied. It's just a name given to describe the particular pattern that Allens' bird has. I have a picture of a saddleback Pied but I think Allen should post his pics too. I suspect she is pearl as well
1419 This really only shows one side but I think you got the idea.

[allen]

and yes sue is right she is pearl as well

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb207/birdcrazzy/Picture047-2.jpg

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb207/birdcrazzy/Picture091.jpg

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb207/birdcrazzy/Picture095.jpg

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb207/birdcrazzy/Picture093.jpg

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb207/birdcrazzy/Picture093-1.jpg

[sweetrsue]

Unless Snowflake has any hidden genes the males you get will be WF Pied split to Pearl. The females will look like Dad. That's my official prediction.

[kimmikefids]

uh oh...wf pied...im drooling again!!!

[allen]

she may also be split to lutino as the top of her head is bald

[sweetrsue]

A female can't be split for Lutino. Only males can carry the Lutino gene unseen. A female either is Lutino or she isn't.