About turquoise mutation

[Michalis]

Hi all

A quick question and i need the help from the experts
How can i achieve the turquoise mutation on blue masked lovebirds?

Thanks

 

[Michalis]

By the way those are my birds. Their collar doesnt seem very clear (white). Its more greyish i would say.
It is a confirmed pair though with dna testing

 

[Anfsurfer]

You need a Turquoise to produce one.

 

[Michalis]

But how do you produce one?

 

[Anfsurfer]

You can't produce one without owning one.
If you get one, you can pair it up with a Blue or another Turquoise to get visual Turquoise babies.

Here's my Turquoise Hen when she had babies. The back of her head was plucked a bit from when they were mating.

She was paired with a Double Factor Violet Blue Male. Here he was outside the nestbox.

This was the baby I kept. I ended up with three Turquoise, and 2 Blues from the pairing.

 

[Michalis]

Thanks for your reply. Very beautiful birds there.

From where did the turquoise mutation came from then? I mean it started from some other mutations

 

[Anfsurfer]

Like any genetic mutation, it just randomly occurs in nature.

 

[Michalis]

Randomly from the blues or greens? Can someone achieve turquoise mutation through selective breeding without using one?

 

[expressmailtome]

Randomly from the blues or greens? Can someone achieve turquoise mutation through selective breeding without using one?

Not under normal circumstances. As Tim said, it is possible for one to randomly appear, but the odds are far less than miniscule. For most mutations, they will only appear once, or twice, in a species that way ever from all of the breedings across the world.

 

[Anfsurfer]

Any "Mutation" is based off a change to the Ancestral bird.
You have to understand the reason for the visual changes/mutations to the birds.

GREEN - Has psittacin
BLUE - No psittacin
PARBLUE (Turquoise) - Partial psittacin

Breeding "Blues" to "Greens split to Blue", you will get Greens with Psittacin, and Blues with no Psittacin. There is no way to achieve PARTIAL psittacin through these pairings.
The same for "Green to Green", and "Blue to Blue". All babies will either have it (Green), or not (Blue).
Unless you are one of the very, very, very rare people (like 1 in a billion) who gets a mutation to occur naturally in your flock, you have to have a Parblue to produce one.

 

[Michalis]

Thank you guys! You were very helpful.
Sorry for my limited knowledge:handup: