Cockatiel pairing

[Cassjoly15]

Hello ! My male lutino cockatiel is currently breeding my white face female ! What will the babies turn out looking like ?

 

[expressmailtome]

Welcome! You can try playing with this genetics calculator to find out: Genetic Calculator 1.3 Cockatiels . The difficult, or fun, depending on how you look at it, thing is figuring out the splits.

 

[Karearea]

Assuming they aren't split anything, all female offspring will be lutino while all male offspring will be wild-type (split whiteface and lutino). If the male is split whiteface, you may see some albinos!
Best of luck in your breeding endeavor

 

[Rebel]

I dont know how anyone can tell what they might be. I have 4 male offspring from two different batches. Same parents and all 4 are completely different.

 

[Karearea]

I dont know how anyone can tell what they might be. I have 4 male offspring from two different batches. Same parents and all 4 are completely different.

Almost all color mutations follow strict rules that we can use to predict how they'll be inherited over time. It's all about probability! The more genes are involved, the more possibilities there are.

 

[Rebel]

Almost all color mutations follow strict rules that we can use to predict how they'll be inherited over time. It's all about probability! The more genes are involved, the more possibilities there are.

Interesting

 

[Squacco]

Beautiful pair! As already mentioned you can't tell what the chicks'll be if you don't know the full genotype (genes) of the parents. I didn't know what our pair's genotypes were to begin with, but found out what they were by what the chicks turned out like. The male turned out to be split to 3 different mutations - genes are so unexpected.

A lot of genetic calculators are really complicated or require installation, but I always use this one, it works really well and is simple to use once you get the hang of it: Here

(also 'albinos' technically aren't albino, they are Whiteface Lutino )