Fancy Green Cheek

[MonicaMc]

Brian, I was going with yellowside based on the feet, beak and the small amount of yellow color on the sides. She *almost* looks normal, but there's enough color there coming through to say otherwise.

I guess you could call her a "light" yellowside.... kind of like light, medium, heavy and clear pieds in cockatiels, the intensity of colors in other mutations may also vary. This also holds true for cinnamon mutations.

 

[brianlinkles]

Brian, I was going with yellowside based on the feet, beak and the small amount of yellow color on the sides. She *almost* looks normal, but there's enough color there coming through to say otherwise.

I guess you could call her a "light" yellowside.... kind of like light, medium, heavy and clear pieds in cockatiels, the intensity of colors in other mutations may also vary. This also holds true for cinnamon mutations.

Yes Monicamc I agree, she almost looks like a normal however those feet are light. Light yellowside would be a good description. I usually go by yellow side, high red, very high red. I am currently trying to breed my yellow sides and pineapples for a lot of red.

 

[Calace]

Whichever mutation she ends up being, she is gorgeous!

 

[Karigan]

It is possible that she's a mix though, so it stands to reason that she may have features of a few sub species, right? I don't think all breeders are too careful with subs.

 

[MonicaMc]

It is possible that she's a mix though, so it stands to reason that she may have features of a few sub species, right? I don't think all breeders are too careful with subs.

I honestly wonder if we have any pure subspecies left in America, and would not be surprised if the majority are now hybrids. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of green cheek conure owners aren't even aware that there are subspecies of green cheeks. I wasn't aware myself for several years and always wondered why green cheeks looked so different.

Not to mention the hybrids with black caps and maroon bellieds that can look like pures, and birds mislabeled as something that they aren't. I've seen many maroon bellieds labeled as green cheeks.

So it's not just different subspecies, but species, too.

 

[Karigan]

Yeah, not a lot of people know much about their birds. I had a conversation with a man at the park who was asking me what kind of bird (not parrot) I had because he used to have one like it for a while and didn't know what it was. He gave it away because it wasn't happy and plucked itself bald when it didn't get it out of the cage and fed it a seed diet. Not to mention all the adds for ringnecks I see out there with pics of conures by people claiming to be breeders...

 

[Karigan]

Worse are the scammers who target people who know nothing about birds. Do any of these look legit to you (eye roll)?

Kamloops - Free Local Classified Ads - MiniAds.ca

 

[MonicaMc]

Same can be had for senegals... I also wonder if there are any pure sennies out there. I've heard that even pure looking senegals can throw offspring that don't look like them... i.e. two orange bellied sennies throwing yellow bellied offspring occasionally.


Those ads? I wonder if any *are* legit... looked at a few, and they are clearly scams! "Blue macaw" for $400? Scam. Male and female african greys/hyacinths that are registered and up to date on shots? Scam. Calls them puppies at the end? Scam. All those prices are far too cheap for tame/friendly/hand raised/talking young parrots that they are advertising (hyacinth, african grey, blue and gold...).

 

[Karigan]

I know, right? You would think that people would see past these but I read about people falling for them all the time!

 

[MonicaMc]

Sadly, not everyone is aware that there are even scammers out there.... and some of them are really good! My company has been scammed a few times with scammers that have used stolen credit cards or even made themselves appear like a local company when they were really in Africa. I work for a small company, and when something like that happens to us, it hits us hard!

At least the pet ones are typically easy to figure out if you know the signs to look for!