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benton23

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Yellow Sided Green Cheek Conure- Zoey

• Oct 28, 2012

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Hey everyone, in anticipation of me getting a Green Cheek Conure soon, I thought I'd have a little fun and ask what everyone's favorite color mutations are! I know anyone that has a GCC will probably say whichever one they have, but lets try and see what really is the most popular one! So, out of these 6 colors, which is your favorite and why?

1. Normal

2. Cinnamon

3. Yellow Sided

4. Turquoise

5. Pineapple

6. Yellow sided Turquoise

 

tab_xo

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Fargo- Blue and Gold Macaw

• Oct 28, 2012

• #2

i like the turquoise colours, but im a sucker for the blue colours with all birds

 

Birdlover11

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Pepsi and sprite, both are American male budgies

• Oct 28, 2012

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I really love pineapple and yellow sided turquoise . Pine apple because it's so bright and colorful. Yellow sided turquoise because it looks so elegant and shimmery

 

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ConureLady

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• Oct 28, 2012

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I love pineapple turquoise green cheeks, any nice blue green cheek really, also love some unnamed ones like pearly, painted, black capped, maroon bellied

 

MonicaMc

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Mitred Conure - Charlie 1994;
Cockatiel - Casey 2001;
Wild Caught ARN - Sylphie 2013

• Oct 28, 2012

• #5

Pearly, painted, black caps and maroon bellies aren't green cheeks...

Common colors of green cheeks

1. Normal
2. Cinnamon
3. Opaline (Yellowside)
4. Cinnamon Opaline (Pineapple)
5. Turquoise
6. Turquoise Cinnamon
7. Turquoise Opaline
8. Turquoise Cinnamon Opaline

Not so common ones (not including mixes)

1. Misty
2. Grey
3. Dilute
4. Recessive Pied

 

strasia93

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Two Cinnamon Turquoise Green Cheek Conures;
Kalika and Makana,
brothers hatched November 6th 2011

• Oct 28, 2012

• #6

Our cinnamon tirquoise GCCs are not too common, they get a lot of complements. We did not pick them, they picked us. LoL

 

ConureCrazy

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Senegal: Oliver ~~
Yellow-Sided GCC's: Bella and Zora ~~
R.I.P Tweeters the Cockatiel<3

• Oct 28, 2012

• #7

I LOVE the yellow sided... but I'm obviously biased. Oh well, I love 'em anyways. =D

 

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benton23

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Yellow Sided Green Cheek Conure- Zoey

• Oct 28, 2012

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I'm surprised at how spread out it is so far, it really shows that everyone can look at the same thing in a different way. My favorite is definitely the Yellow Sided, and I hope that's the one I get. I love the brighter colors, and the reds and yellows in them are just amazing. Keep 'em coming everyone, I'm curious to see if there turns out to be a clear cut most popular or if it stays even across the board.

 

Kantia

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Tich. A Green-Cheeked Blue Conure. Hatched 6th May 2012 <3

• Oct 29, 2012

• #9

I own a turquoise, but I love normal and yellow sided GCCs.

 

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aliray

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Rotonda West , Fla

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yellow sided green cheek conure,Chiquita Quaker parrot Sweetie Pie, African red bellied parrot Tiki, spanish timbrado canary Lucas

• Oct 29, 2012

• #10

I vote for yellow sided. I love the colors and contrast of colors

 

ToukiB.

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• Oct 30, 2012

• #11

Turquoise!! Just a tad biased....lol but its also my favorite color next to purple......

 

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benton23

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Yellow Sided Green Cheek Conure- Zoey

• Oct 31, 2012

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Well I think it's obvious what the answer is...THEY ARE ALL BEAUTIFUL LITTLE BIRDIES!! Lol, thanks for the responses everyone, interesting to see what everyone likes in their birds. Here's a quick question on my personal favorite, the Yellow Sided though. I've noticed in a lot of pictures I've seen that some Yellow Sides, and some Pineapples too, have a lot of red in them, while in others its nowhere near as much. Most notably, I see several pictures of YS with red all the way up to their cheeks, but others that have solid green cheeks with no red nearby. I haven't been able to find an answer so I'm wondering, are the ones with the green cheeks the more juvenile birds, and the red cheeks are the adult versions, or is that just the random disparity in each individual bird?

 

MonicaMc

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Mitred Conure - Charlie 1994;
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Wild Caught ARN - Sylphie 2013

• Oct 31, 2012

• #13

benton23 said:

I haven't been able to find an answer so I'm wondering, are the ones with the green cheeks the more juvenile birds, and the red cheeks are the adult versions, or is that just the random disparity in each individual bird?

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Neither.

The birds with high amounts of red have been specifically bred to have that amount of coloration in them. Kind of similar to the "red factor" sun conures, without the deadly gene.

 

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benton23

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Yellow Sided Green Cheek Conure- Zoey

• Oct 31, 2012

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• #14

Ah, gotcha. But what's the "deadly gene"? That's the first I've heard of it.

 

MonicaMc

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Mitred Conure - Charlie 1994;
Cockatiel - Casey 2001;
Wild Caught ARN - Sylphie 2013

• Oct 31, 2012

• #15

When you breed two red factor sun conures together, the offspring have a high chance of death and not many double factor reds make it to adult hood.

It's known as a "dominant cumulative fatal gene", aka a lethal gene. I don't really fully understand it myself, although I understand the basic concept of it and how it works - to a degree.


I haven't seen this (i.e. lethal gene) in any other species.

 

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silvertiger3450

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• Nov 2, 2012

• #16

yellow sided and pineapple. just cuz of the color