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Conure Genetics and color combinations

BrianB

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I have two male opaline black-capped conures. I can find the regular black-capped females, but female opalines have been impossible to find. If I breed the male with a regular female, would I expect to get the regular coloration? Is one sex-linked, or dominate to the other?

Another question about green cheeks. I've found a spreadsheet that lists what you can expect from various combinations of colors. It doesn't include the sun cheek variety. I have a pair that I expect to give me chicks in early 2020. The male is a sun cheek, the female is a high red pineapple. The male comes from a pair where the male is a normal yellow sided and the female is a sun cheek. I know the sun cheek is a dilute yellow sided cinnamon, and the pineapple is a yellow sided cinnamon, but I have no idea what is dominate or sex-linked, so I'm at a loss over what I can expect from them. Any ideas?
 

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Where can I find that chart? I have a male green cheek, a male pineapple, and a female pineapple. Kind of curious if I want to let them breed.
 

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Here is a list of different combinations. I'm looking for the original google sheet that had the information on it.

 

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Opaline is sex-linked. BCC opaline male paired to wild type hen will result in 100% wild type males split for opaline and 100% opaline hens.

The yellowsided green cheek conure is also an opaline mutation.

Opaline - sex linked
Cinnamon - sex linked
Dilute - recessive


So if your hen GCC has no splits, then you'll get 100% opaline (yellowsided) green cheek males split cinnamon and dilute and 100% pineapple hens split dilute
 

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Thank you. That makes sense now that someone has written it out for me.
 

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I have two male opaline black-capped conures. I can find the regular black-capped females, but female opalines have been impossible to find. If I breed the male with a regular female, would I expect to get the regular coloration? Is one sex-linked, or dominate to the other?

Another question about green cheeks. I've found a spreadsheet that lists what you can expect from various combinations of colors. It doesn't include the sun cheek variety. I have a pair that I expect to give me chicks in early 2020. The male is a sun cheek, the female is a high red pineapple. The male comes from a pair where the male is a normal yellow sided and the female is a sun cheek. I know the sun cheek is a dilute yellow sided cinnamon, and the pineapple is a yellow sided cinnamon, but I have no idea what is dominate or sex-linked, so I'm at a loss over what I can expect from them. Any ideas?
Hey Brian,

I understand this thread is 4 years old now and hopefully you are still active on this forum. I have searched endlessly only to find one other person who has the same combination of birds as your mentioned post.

I have a Male Yellowsided Conure (Mom is Yellowsided, Dad is Pineapple) and a Female Suncheek (Mom is a Mooncheek, Dad is Normal Split Mooncheek).

You said the combination above for you produced a male suncheek and a female high red pineapple. Are there any other mutations they produced as well?

Cheers!

-Ali
 

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Hey Brian,

I understand this thread is 4 years old now and hopefully you are still active on this forum. I have searched endlessly only to find one other person who has the same combination of birds as your mentioned post.

I have a Male Yellowsided Conure (Mom is Yellowsided, Dad is Pineapple) and a Female Suncheek (Mom is a Mooncheek, Dad is Normal Split Mooncheek).

You said the combination above for you produced a male suncheek and a female high red pineapple. Are there any other mutations they produced as well?

Cheers!

-Ali
Brian has not logged in in quite a while. Try using this calculator: Genetic Calculator 1.3 Green-cheeked Conure .
 
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