What Happens...?

[Adoril]

What happens if 2 different types of Cockatiels mate and the female breeds? Like, how will the babies look like?

[tielfan]

The possible combinations depend on the genetic makeup of the parents, and sometimes they carry the genes for colors that you can't actually see on the parents. There's a cockatiel genetics calculator at http://www.kirstenmunson.com/cockatiels/blue.html if you'd like to play around and explore some of the possibilities.

For example: Buster is a normal grey male who carries the genes for whiteface, lutino, and cinnamon (these are called splits). His mate Shodu is a whiteface hen. Their babies so far have been normal grey, lutino, whiteface lutino, cinnamon, whiteface cinnamon, and one grey with odd little stripes on his head that no one can explain. They haven't produced any whiteface grey chicks yet but they have the potential to do it and maybe there'll be some of those in the next clutch.

[Adoril]

The possible combinations depend on the genetic makeup of the parents, and sometimes they carry the genes for colors that you can't actually see on the parents. There's a cockatiel genetics calculator at http://www.kirstenmunson.com/cockatiels/blue.html if you'd like to play around and explore some of the possibilities.

For example: Buster is a normal grey male who carries the genes for whiteface, lutino, and cinnamon (these are called splits). His mate Shodu is a whiteface hen. Their babies so far have been normal grey, lutino, whiteface lutino, cinnamon, whiteface cinnamon, and one grey with odd little stripes on his head that no one can explain. They haven't produced any whiteface grey chicks yet but they have the potential to do it and maybe there'll be some of those in the next clutch.
Wow, thank you again. :D