What Mutation is my Lovie?

[MyFlock]

What is she? Anyone know?

 

[Kyoto]

looks to me like cinnamon and pied.

 

[MyFlock]

Thank you!

 

[Kyoto]

The more I look at it, I think maybe cinnamon - lacewing rather than pied.

 

[MyFlock]

Lacewing! interesting as I've never heard of lacewings. She sure has some fancy looking feathers.

 

[Kyoto]

Lacewing! interesting as I've never heard of lacewings. She sure has some fancy looking feathers.

I know very little, but I had two lovies make babies (unplanned!) a few times and got interested in their genetics. It's amazing how recessive traits can just pop up out of nowhere with them! Had a regular green male and lutino female, who produced pied, par blue, violet, and cinnamon babies (as well as normal green) when we expected only lutino and greens.

There is a calculator online somewhere that I found helpful for understanding it too.

 

[MyFlock]

I think the calculator is on the African Lovebird Society's site, I can't make heads or tails of it and I looked through all the photos and couldn't find a lovie with feathers like mine.

You think she's a peach faced cinnamon lacewing then?

 

[MyFlock]

I ordered a book called the Colored Atlas of Lovebirds, hoping to get a better handle on this whole mutation thing. It's full of photos with different mutations

 

[Kyoto]

I ordered a book called the Colored Atlas of Lovebirds, hoping to get a better handle on this whole mutation thing. It's full of photos with different mutations

THAT SOUNDS AWESOME

Let me know if you accurately determine what your baby is

 

[MyFlock]

I will!

 

[MyFlock]

I ordered a book called the Colored Atlas of Lovebirds, hoping to get a better handle on this whole mutation thing. It's full of photos with different mutations

THAT SOUNDS AWESOME

Let me know if you accurately determine what your baby is

She is an edged dilute