Cinnamon or Pineapple?

freyaclare

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I have two parakeets, a girl named Frost and a boy named Paris. I also just got a Cinnamon Green Cheek Conure on 8-31-14 that I named Zelda.
I recently purchased my conure from the pet store. She (i feel that she is a girl) was labelled as a green cheek conure but she doesn't look like the pictures of green cheek conures. I think she is either a cinnamon or a pineapple, but I can't tell the difference. Maybe I'm dumb or color-blind but the pictures of pineapple and cinnamon conures look pretty much the same to me.
My bird has a pretty greyish head, a tan beak, pink feet, the green wings and red tail of course, and a yellow tummy with a red heart shape on it. I want to post pictures but I am a 20-year pc user who just switched to a mac and I can't figure out how to save pictures to a folder, lol.
 

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From the sounds of it she seems to be a Cinnamon Pineapple mutation
 
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Mekaisto

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Cinnamon and pineapple are both mutations of the green-cheeked conure :)

From what you're describing, she sounds like a cinnamon - a pineapple conure has red up its whole chest - google can mix you up a bit here because many people will post pictures of their conure, labelling it as a mutation it isn't.
 
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freyaclare

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I have two parakeets, a girl named Frost and a boy named Paris. I also just got a Cinnamon Green Cheek Conure on 8-31-14 that I named Zelda.
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Thank you guys for responding so quickly! I have been experimenting with my computer and I figured out how to transfer my pictures onto it, so here is a picture of Zelda I found where you can most see her markings. I have others from the front but they were more blurry because she likes my phone case and she was coming to bite it as I was taking the pictures, lol.
 

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EAI

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Zelda is beautiful. I'm 98% sure Zelda is a Cinnamon Pineapple Green Cheek Conure.
 
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freyaclare

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I have two parakeets, a girl named Frost and a boy named Paris. I also just got a Cinnamon Green Cheek Conure on 8-31-14 that I named Zelda.
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Thank you very much! So you think she isn't one or the other but both??

BTW I love your Budgie's names! :)
 

EAI

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Possibly, I'm not the best with Conure mutations so I might accidentally determining it wrong. But looking back closer she could be a Yellow Sided instead of the Pineapple mutation.

But to make it less confusing for certain she is a Cinnamon mutation. Someone with Green Cheeks are better suited for helping you.
So sorry.
 

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She is not a yellow sided. To tell the difference between cinnamon and pineapple lift her wing up and check underneath. If it is yellow underneath then you have a pineapple. If it is lime green underneath you have a cinnamon.
 

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There is a very easy way to tell what she is. If she has green feathers under the wing she is cinnamon if it is yellow under them she is pineapple. A pineapple is a mix of the yellow side gene and the cinnamon gene. Therefore the wings will be yellow under them.
 
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freyaclare

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Thanks you guys! I think she is totally a Cinnamon. :)
 

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She is not a yellow sided. To tell the difference between cinnamon and pineapple lift her wing up and check underneath. If it is yellow underneath then you have a pineapple. If it is lime green underneath you have a cinnamon.


There is a very easy way to tell what she is. If she has green feathers under the wing she is cinnamon if it is yellow under them she is pineapple. A pineapple is a mix of the yellow side gene and the cinnamon gene. Therefore the wings will be yellow under them.

Thanks for correcting me! That's pretty interesting, I never heard of that method. I'll be keeping it in mind for myself just incase I find myself wanting a Conure again ;) --not now, but one day.
 

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Not all yellow sided have much red on their bellies so checking under the wings is the only sure fire way to check. Yellow sided mixed with cinnamon creates pineapple, but since they are both sex linked you can't just get it by having one parent of each color. Cinnamon will have green under the wings, pineapple will have yellow, and both are beautiful :)
 

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i got 1 green cheek cinnamon,a rose crowned,a yellow sided and a hybride from the first 2

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i am beginning to think that i am the only one with a cinnamon that only has a little few red/pinkish feathers on the belly,to me they all are pineapples^^
i wish you luck!
 

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My cinnamon has a few pinkish/orangish feathers too. Love my GCC no matter the variation, such a great bird.
 

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Looks like a pineapple conure to me as could be my 'wasups's" twin.
Good luck with your little darling,my wassup is the sweetest craziest little bit of fun.
 

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I have a cinnamon gcc, and she has a red belly (not chest) and when you lift her wings, she's green, maroon tail, beige chest and head with green cheeks :)
 

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Zelda looks allot like my Shasta..... that I purchased from PetCo about a year ago..... They had her (had her sexed) labeled as a "Fancy" Conure.

Green under wings.... she is a Cinnamon GC

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