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Many novice breeders are surprise when they get colors that doesn't belong. For example, when their pairs produced lutinos, cinnamons, and blues. Of course, if we work backward, it's not so surprising.

Lets start with the most basic. Instead of using the regular green peachface, we will use the green orangeface. Normally, we will get only green orangeface lovebirds. Any colors means that the pairs are split to something. What we want to know is what.

First, the most common is the lutino. When you get a lutino from a green pairs, it means that the male is split to lutino and that lutino is female because lutino is a sex-linked gene.

Then the next common one would be the cinnamon. Exactly the same thing as the lutino. It's a sex-linked gene.

The other would be the blue colors coming out from the green pairs. This mean that the parents are both split to blue color because blue color is recessive.

Some pairs, of course, produces everything. Well, the easiest explanation is that the pairs is split to everything.

 

First breeding lutino when you only have a lutino female and a green male. For the first generation, you will produce only green birds but males will be split to lutino. When you pair the male with any green color, you will produce green birds which can be male or female, but the lutino will be a female. However, if you pair the green male split to lutino to blue female, you will still produce green birds and lutino females. However, the babies are now split to blues. And also the males are possible split to red-eye. Always put the babies will other colors to create multiple genetics on the babies. This work with any colors.

For example, if you have a dutch blue and a cinnamon, when pairing them, all the male babies will be split to cinnamon. When you pair the male babies, you can now pair the male with a blue violet female and therefore produce cinnamon and the male is now split to violet regardless of the colors.

Of course, these are the long way when there is nothing available. If more things are available, we can do more with the babies. How?

For example, if you have a lutino male and white face cinnamon. What can we get? First, every red eye babies will be female. Then all the other black-eyed babies are male and of course, that just happens to be green peachface. Now, we will pair the green peachface boy with a white face cinnamon or a blue violet. For this type of pair, you will be able to produce lutino females, cinnamons, and of course sometimes the blue violet.

The other popular colors are of course the blue violet and the white cinnamon. Many times, you produce one and not the other. How do we get both? To guarantee a chance, you have put the blue violet male with the white cinnamon females. From here all the male babies will be split to cinnamon. Pair the males again with the cinnamon females and you will produce blue violets and whiteface cinnamons.

Here we are mainly focusing on the peachface mutations. Most of the multiple genetics are of course accomplish in the 2 or more years. But they are a lot cheaper. If you want to produce them a lot faster, then just go buy the colors you want and pair them together. It's all about how much you want to spend and how fast you want to go. If you want to know more about the opalines and the opaline blue series, then you want to read more on the opaline 102.

Of course, nothing is easy. You have to try it to understand it better.

If you want things to be easier and produce only certain colors, it's very easy just like what I have mention. If you want more blue violets, just pair blue violets with blue violets. If you want more cinnamons, just pair cinnamon to cinnamons. If want only lutinos or creaminos, just pair lutinos with lutinos and creaminos with creaminos. There is nothing hard about that. But if you want varieties from one pair, then you breed for multiple genetics.