I came across this, while reading on Sandees' site..
The next thing to avoid is breeding the same visual color mutation to one another. An example would be to breed a blue mutation to another blue mutation. While this is acceptable with other types of color mutation birds, parrotlets have not been bred long enough to eliminate genetic flaws with this type of breeding. This type of pairing can produce a variety of congenital and/or genetic problems such as low fertility, infertility, high instances of dead in shell embryos, smaller clutches, abnormally sized chicks, higher chick mortality rates, failure to thrive, offspring with weakened immune systems, abnormal feathers, birth defects and lethal genes.
I'm not a breeder, I really don't understand breeding to be honest. Well to the extent of being a "good breeder"...A "quality breeder"...There's a lot a person needs to know...But, I am just bored and ended up on this page of her site...I kind of ended up lost in the information...
A color mutation, would be something like a pied, or albino, right? My last handfed parrotlet came from mom and dad birds both being green. Are you not suppose to breed two greens together? My current p'let came from mom (blue) and dad (green). What if you wanted to breed a blue to a blue...Not a pastel/pied/dilute or anything but just basics.....
I feel confused LOL......
NOTE: I am not breeding..but just it's something I think is good to know...Especially for when a person is purchasing a parrotlet. I know a lot of people who are breeding greens to greens. Blue to blues...American Yellows to American Yellows....etc...If this is a wrong process, that eliminates out a lot of breeders I once considered "good"...
The next thing to avoid is breeding the same visual color mutation to one another. An example would be to breed a blue mutation to another blue mutation. While this is acceptable with other types of color mutation birds, parrotlets have not been bred long enough to eliminate genetic flaws with this type of breeding. This type of pairing can produce a variety of congenital and/or genetic problems such as low fertility, infertility, high instances of dead in shell embryos, smaller clutches, abnormally sized chicks, higher chick mortality rates, failure to thrive, offspring with weakened immune systems, abnormal feathers, birth defects and lethal genes.
I'm not a breeder, I really don't understand breeding to be honest. Well to the extent of being a "good breeder"...A "quality breeder"...There's a lot a person needs to know...But, I am just bored and ended up on this page of her site...I kind of ended up lost in the information...
A color mutation, would be something like a pied, or albino, right? My last handfed parrotlet came from mom and dad birds both being green. Are you not suppose to breed two greens together? My current p'let came from mom (blue) and dad (green). What if you wanted to breed a blue to a blue...Not a pastel/pied/dilute or anything but just basics.....
I feel confused LOL......
NOTE: I am not breeding..but just it's something I think is good to know...Especially for when a person is purchasing a parrotlet. I know a lot of people who are breeding greens to greens. Blue to blues...American Yellows to American Yellows....etc...If this is a wrong process, that eliminates out a lot of breeders I once considered "good"...