All red african greys coming to my area soon-ish! I

my birds boarder/groomer is a breeder of all kinds of birds. One of his greys has the red mutation (only some chest feathers) so he plans to buy a female with the red mutation and work on breeding an all red one. I'd love to even just see one. I guess the red mutation is one in 100,000.

I'm not sure how he'll be able to do so without some serious inbreeding, or trading with other breeders...
I've seen all-reds before, I don't like them but to each their own.

I think he plans to buy from other breeders. I don't know if you'd find anything in Canada though, and importing is really difficult.

Red factors are very interesting.
I personally don't really care for them and find their appearance a bit jarring.



However, I guess that sometimes an otherwise normal looking grey will sport a few red contour feathers, which is pretty neat.
I follow a lot of grey owners on Instagram, and it's always a special little event when one of theirs gets a red feather.

I worry about possible health effects of breeding to get all-red greys. Like how many breeds of dogs have serious health problems that have been passed down and amplified through breeding to get specific characteristics (like how Dalmatians are often blind, and German Shepards have very bad arthritis in her back hips).

Just something to think about, I guess.

Hello. In parrots as far as I know we are only messing with the colour gens a few of which are sex related. We currently have very few misshapen birds to breed mutations from as we have for dogs over thousands of years. It will not happen in the lifetime of your great grandchildren if ever. D.D.

Lullx said:

Red factors are very interesting.
I personally don't really care for them and find their appearance a bit jarring.

However, I guess that sometimes an otherwise normal looking grey will sport a few red contour feathers, which is pretty neat.
I follow a lot of grey owners on Instagram, and it's always a special little event when one of theirs gets a red feather.

I worry about possible health effects of breeding to get all-red greys. Like how many breeds of dogs have serious health problems that have been passed down and amplified through breeding to get specific characteristics (like how Dalmatians are often blind, and German Shepards have very bad arthritis in her back hips).

Just something to think about, I guess.

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Red feathers in greys freak me out. My partner's first grey got more red feathers after his first molt and it turned out in his case it was a sign of PBFD.

thekarens said:

Red feathers in greys freak me out. My partner's first grey got more red feathers after his first molt and it turned out in his case it was a sign of PBFD.

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That's what I've read in the past also... Not that it's always PBFD related, but still it would be unsettling if I had a Grey that it happened to.

Britt, I agree about the "jarring" appearance . I personally don't care for it.