bostjan
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- Apr 28, 2012
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- Parrots
- Spanky - Congo African Grey
Azu - Turquoise Green Cheek Conure
Sherbert - Pineapple Green Cheek Conure
Bonbon - Cinnamon Green Cheek Conure
Luna - Mealy Amazon
7 Baby GCC's and counting
I hope I chose the right subforum for this.
I would like to thank everyone again for their wonderful responses to my question.
On a lighter note, I thought I would introduce our newest group of the family...
Sherbert, our male pineapple green cheek conure, and Azu, our female turquoise green cheek conure began some nesting behaviour last year. My wife and I purchased an incubator, in case there were eggs and if it was too cool for them in the nesting box. We originally adopted Azu, kind of impulsively, when she instantly bonded with my wife while we were visiting a pet store near the area where we live. I already had a yellow sided green cheek conure, and we had a cinnamon green cheek conure on the way. Sherbert bonded with our son while we were visiting Azu (she was too young to be uprooted when we adopted her), and he was already friends with Azu, so he came home with us, too, when we finally did take Azu home with us.
They are both still extremely sweet birds, very easy for us to handle. We have not handled them directly since they began laying, but we still interact at a distance. I know there is a chance after nesting season, that they might be different toward us, but Sherbert doesn't seem to be behaving different toward me or my wife, although he has gotten aggressive toward his neighbour, Bonbon (a cinnamon green cheek), with a lot of bickering (at one point, we had socialized all of our gcc's together, but we separated them once Sherbert and Azu bonded as a pair).
So, as far as the chicks go, I've tried to put my old college genetics to use, and, as I understand it, a pineapple is a cinnamon yellow sided, and the genes are sex-linked, like colourblindness in humans, so Sherbert will pass his genes (technically I mean alleles) to all of his babies as yellow-sided and cinnamon. That means that all of his daughters will exhibit pineapple characteristics, since they do not get any genes from their mothers for these two traits. Azu's turquoise mutation is not sex-linked, but is recessive, so she'll pass one of two of the turquoise genes on to each chick. I think that means that unless Sherbert is split with turquoise (we don't know who his parents are), then all of the male chicks should be regular gcc's, and all of the females should be pineapple. If Sherbert is split, which is a slim chance, we could end up with half of the males turquoise and half regular, and then half of the females pineapple and half pineapple turquoise. All of the chicks, though, will at least be split to turquoise, and the males will be split to pineapple.
Is that right?
I would like to thank everyone again for their wonderful responses to my question.
On a lighter note, I thought I would introduce our newest group of the family...
Sherbert, our male pineapple green cheek conure, and Azu, our female turquoise green cheek conure began some nesting behaviour last year. My wife and I purchased an incubator, in case there were eggs and if it was too cool for them in the nesting box. We originally adopted Azu, kind of impulsively, when she instantly bonded with my wife while we were visiting a pet store near the area where we live. I already had a yellow sided green cheek conure, and we had a cinnamon green cheek conure on the way. Sherbert bonded with our son while we were visiting Azu (she was too young to be uprooted when we adopted her), and he was already friends with Azu, so he came home with us, too, when we finally did take Azu home with us.
They are both still extremely sweet birds, very easy for us to handle. We have not handled them directly since they began laying, but we still interact at a distance. I know there is a chance after nesting season, that they might be different toward us, but Sherbert doesn't seem to be behaving different toward me or my wife, although he has gotten aggressive toward his neighbour, Bonbon (a cinnamon green cheek), with a lot of bickering (at one point, we had socialized all of our gcc's together, but we separated them once Sherbert and Azu bonded as a pair).
So, as far as the chicks go, I've tried to put my old college genetics to use, and, as I understand it, a pineapple is a cinnamon yellow sided, and the genes are sex-linked, like colourblindness in humans, so Sherbert will pass his genes (technically I mean alleles) to all of his babies as yellow-sided and cinnamon. That means that all of his daughters will exhibit pineapple characteristics, since they do not get any genes from their mothers for these two traits. Azu's turquoise mutation is not sex-linked, but is recessive, so she'll pass one of two of the turquoise genes on to each chick. I think that means that unless Sherbert is split with turquoise (we don't know who his parents are), then all of the male chicks should be regular gcc's, and all of the females should be pineapple. If Sherbert is split, which is a slim chance, we could end up with half of the males turquoise and half regular, and then half of the females pineapple and half pineapple turquoise. All of the chicks, though, will at least be split to turquoise, and the males will be split to pineapple.
Is that right?
