Aves, I have often seen white breasted birds with spots/patches of dark cobalt blue but I have never seen a blue breast so when you say; "The reason that it...
Dirk and James, You both asked, (Dirk) ... (James) ... To be honest I never even thought about it as being a mutation and view it as a fluke and nothing more....
Hello Aves, ... breeding blue ... it seems that ... what Terry ... the trick ... all ... rather than ... I find this extremely interesting. What do you think...
Ludo, ... To be honest as stated before, I have never looked at it as a possible mutation, so I never thought much about it. I see it like a false Lilac or...
Hello Everyone, I am a new member to your list, but not to the gouldians. I've always had them in my home, but have not had the opportunity to dig into their...
Sharon WELCOME! So good to see a New Englander! I'm in Maine :) ... From: srmoore98 To: GPA101Genetics@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 12:07 PM...
Hi Sarah, Thanks so much for the welcome. It's a small world on the Internet. It's great to know you are so near. I know everyone has very busy schedules, but...
Sharon drop me a note at smccann@securespeed. For some reason I am unable to click on the email address in this program so I can't write to you directly. I...
Hello all, As I have thusfar only "colony bred" birds, I have no experience in tracking the genetic history of my birds. I was wondering if anyone could...
Hi Ludo, Link #21 here: http://www.eccentrix.com/members/littlebirds/littlebirds/gouldlinksb.h tml will take you to places that sell bands so you can see the...
Hey Sandy, Thanks for the info! I still have two questions, though. Regarding the open leg bands: do you use one color for all the offspring of one pair of...
http://www.redbird.net/marius/ Here's a breeding program that's free to DL. I have an earlier version, but I'm DLing this one as I type. When I first started...
Ludo Whilst it is traditional in Europe and the USA to use small closed rings and apply them whilst the chicks are half grown, in Australia the various finch...
... Hi Julie, I'm using MyBirds too. When I went on my serious search for a good software program I found that one and paid 50.00 for it at the time, then the...
Ludo, Actually you can get by a surprisingly long time with the un-numbered bands if you have a lot of different colored birds. And, using the MyBirds3 record...
Thank you all for the helpfull information! I just uploaded the "My birds" program, which looks very professional by the way, and have been trying to figure...
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Hi GPA101Genetics, James Watson and Daniel Wildemeersch will remember that I had posted some photos privately of Gouldian Red Line feathers last year. I have...
Hi Winnie, That's really interesting that the feather has red in the middle and not at the tip. That explains why it's a little hard to see in some photos....
Hi Winnie You probably have already got this, but, the following site has a picture of a red line gouldian along with pied, melanistic and others. Bert ...
Hello, I have a male Gouldian that is molting right now and developing extra long central tail feathers. I'm wondering how much of an inheritable trait that...
Winnie I have heard some experienced breeders view the red line as a normal marking of 'good' Gouldians. They call it a 'Fusion' bar. So perhaps it is part of...
Hi Winnie, Terry and all, As you said some old paintings are showing these red lines. You can find a picture dated 1855 of a unknown artist on my site...
wow, look at those tail feathers on that 1855 painting!! Were they really THAT long? Betti-A Jersey Girl http://bettifletcher.homestead.com/ ... From: Daniël...
Hi GPA101Genetics, Thank you for the comments about Red Line Gouldians. Yes, I had seen the photos at Daniel's web site. BTW Daniel, I really appreciate your...
Subj: Hi and Request Date: 8/7/2003 9:01:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time From: GFINCHES2 To: Mygouldianaviary Hi Paul, I am sending a request for a photo of PB NB...
Hi Terry, Just curious-are those breeders you mentioned raising birds in Australia? Sandy ... a normal ... species, ... paintings as ... posted ... and ... ...
Sandy ... Do you mean 'are they Gouldian breeders'? - then the answer is yes. If you mean 'how regularly do they breed red lines'? - I dont know. Terry...
Hi Terry, Australia was the key word :-) I wanted to know if that was an Australian idea. Aussies just might have a better notion of what is closest to the...
Sandy said ... Don't look to much at our breeders for indication of what wild birds are like, because as soon as a species enters aviculture the human owner ...
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