Post by nev90 on Jan 22, 2017 1:40:03 GMT
I’ve been asked to write something about breeding fallow budgies.
Fallow budgies are a rare recessive mutation. They have red-eyes, brown wing markings and very pale body colour. They are available in white (blue series) or yellow (green series). There are three different types of fallow: German, English & Scottish. Mine are German fallows.
To breed fallows you need to start with birds that are either visual fallows or are split for fallow. To get visual fallow chicks the gene must come from both parents.
Mating two split fallows together will produce about 25% visual fallow chicks. Mating a split fallow to a visual fallow will produce about 50% visual fallow chicks. Mating two fallows together produces 100% fallows.
My fallow breeding started with two pet type recessive pied fallow cocks that were split for lacewing. These two red eyed birds were mostly white with a few dark markings on their wings and very pale blue on their rumps. At first I thought that the were recessive pied lacewings but when I bred from them only some of their daughters were lacewing so I realized that they must be recessive pied fallows split for lacewing. The two cocks mated to normal hens produced chicks that were split for both recessive pied and fallow, and some of male chicks were also split for lacewing. I later bought a cock bird that was split for fallow and visual fallow hen. By careful selective breeding over several years I managed to separate the mutations and breed some quite nice visual fallows. The sex-linked lacewing gene was fairly easy to eliminate but the recessive pied is harder to separate and some of my fallows might still be carrying this gene. Progress has been quite slow because, unlike some breeders, I don’t breed closely related birds together.
Fallow budgies are a rare recessive mutation. They have red-eyes, brown wing markings and very pale body colour. They are available in white (blue series) or yellow (green series). There are three different types of fallow: German, English & Scottish. Mine are German fallows.
To breed fallows you need to start with birds that are either visual fallows or are split for fallow. To get visual fallow chicks the gene must come from both parents.
Mating two split fallows together will produce about 25% visual fallow chicks. Mating a split fallow to a visual fallow will produce about 50% visual fallow chicks. Mating two fallows together produces 100% fallows.
My fallow breeding started with two pet type recessive pied fallow cocks that were split for lacewing. These two red eyed birds were mostly white with a few dark markings on their wings and very pale blue on their rumps. At first I thought that the were recessive pied lacewings but when I bred from them only some of their daughters were lacewing so I realized that they must be recessive pied fallows split for lacewing. The two cocks mated to normal hens produced chicks that were split for both recessive pied and fallow, and some of male chicks were also split for lacewing. I later bought a cock bird that was split for fallow and visual fallow hen. By careful selective breeding over several years I managed to separate the mutations and breed some quite nice visual fallows. The sex-linked lacewing gene was fairly easy to eliminate but the recessive pied is harder to separate and some of my fallows might still be carrying this gene. Progress has been quite slow because, unlike some breeders, I don’t breed closely related birds together.
