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       #Post#: 11473--------------------------------------------------
       Breeding colored birds
   DIR By: Dazzlin
       Date: August 25, 2012, 9:22 am
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       How do u breed silver birds without a silver bird I was told u
       breed a red cock with a black he is that true? ??? ?
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       Re: Breeding colored birds
   DIR By: Tony Chavarria
       Date: August 25, 2012, 10:03 am
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       Rare color rollers...naw, lets not go there  ;D
       What you call "silver" is it really lavendar? If so, then you
       need an ash red bird (red check, red bar...) that has the
       "spread" gene express itself. When it does, this bird will be
       "silver" (lavendar). Now this spread factor is merely masking
       the underlying pattern of red check or red bar. Often as these
       type of birds get older, you will begin to see the underlying
       pattern through the masking.
       Saying this, just because you might breed two lavendars together
       does not mean they will "ever" produce a lavendar. I guess there
       are probably exceptions but I have done this before and had
       lavendar pairs not produce a lavendar. I could breed red bars or
       checks and they might produce a good percentage of lavendar.
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       Now a black cockbird is actually a blue series bird expressing
       the spread gene which appears as black in the blue series. So
       now if you had ash red series family of birds that did not have
       the spread gene and you cross that black bird with it, you will
       be introducing the spread gene into the ash red which can now
       express itself in the ash red offspring and give you the
       lavendar.
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