Tie-Dye- Then and Now

[crimson]

THEN:




NOW:







all, if not most of her red has disappeared

 

[Terry57]

That's wild! do you think they were feeding her the colour food?

 

[Freespin]

Wow, explain to me this amazing coloring!!??

 

[Kalidasa]

She's still beautiful. Makes me wonder if all the red feathers were actually healthy? Or like tery57 said maybe some thing in the food? Like the artificial coloring they use for canaries. I wonder how she'll look a year from now. Am I mistaken, or does her actual feather quality look better?

 

[crimson]

my first thought after I got Tie-Dye home was that she had been fed the red-intense colour food that they give to canaries.

I think to some degree they had been feeding her 'something' that changed her feather colour. remember there was some comments on whether she was red-suffusion?
my vet say no she wasn't..... a huge relief for me.

@kalidasa- I think her feathers are much more blended, and softer now then when I first brought her home, her beak is not as pointed, and is more blunt on the end.
she is so much more energetic, and doesn't nap anymore

 

[thekarens]

She's still gorgeous!

 

[getwozzy]

WOW!! What a huge difference!!! She looks happy and healthy!!

 

[crimson]

Wow, explain to me this amazing coloring!!??

I know!!....my jaw dropped when I saw her in the store, and I knew if I didn't buy her right then and there, someone else would.
and I would have regretted not bringing her home.

I have searched high and low for her 'mutation'....and basically came up with a lutino/pied...

You know those lovebird posters that you see at the vets sometimes ?....I came across a picture that looks very similar to Tie-Dye....it read "Lutino modification"....what ever that means

she's not tame but does not bite, and is very calm.....maybe she is a male...:54:

 

[crimson]

I actually like her better now, she has more of a natural colour, it's much softer.

 

[Terry57]

I think she is so gorgeous, and unlike any lovebird I have ever seen.

 

[crimson]

oh me too Terry, when I first posted Tie-Dye on here back in October, I had named her Rainbow.....

a member on here came up with the name Tie-Dye, and I thought 'THAT'S IT!!!'

it suits her to a tee.

 

[Terry57]

Her name completely suits her. I can't imagine that there are many like her with all those wonderful colours

 

[Bundiibird]

Wow what a difference. I definitely think she looks much healthier now.

 

[Betrisher]

Oh Beth, she's gorgeous! Like you, I think she's more gorgeous now than at first. Her red colouring was almost hectic and didn't look healthy (even though it was stunning and so unusual). Dear little Tie-Dye - please tell her Pineapple, Dusk, Shadow, Twilight and Angel send their best regards.

 

[DallyTsuka]

Tie-Dye is a green pied lovebird

she looks sooooooo much better! her yellow looks brighter, her feathers look softer. great job with her!

 

[crimson]

really Casey? well thanks, I knew she was pied(obviously) but I wasn't sure whether she had lutino, or peach face etc....

I wonder if anything else will change?

 

[DallyTsuka]

well she is a peach face for sure, thats her species, but no lutino. lutinos have red eyes and absolutely no green or blue pigment. lutino happens when they lose all melanin but still keep the other pigments. happens the same with cockatiels, macaws, kakarikis, etc. thats why they have red eyes--lack of melanin even in the eyes as well. lutino lovebirds will have a white rump, and they will have red streaked tail feathers and a red (or orange face if an orange faced peach face) face. but never a speck of green. if they have a blue rump or any green on them at all, even one feather, they are a pied.

lutinos can also be "parblue" mutations (seagreen, whiteface, and dutch blue). these are called creamino. instead of having a red face like a "green" lutino, they have the mask like a parblue mutation, which is a diluted version of the wild green colour.


personally, pieds are my absolute favourite mutations in lovebirds. also, fun fact--munch is actually pied--she has a couple flight feathers with pied mottling! genetically, it makes her a pied.

 

[crimson]

oh gosh, I knew Lutinos have red eyes.....duh.
....but you know love bird genetics better than I....

 

[Chandler6611]

pretty girl