I don’t think she’s a fallow either, but I’m no expert. I’ll see if I can find a good pic of my dilute turquoise girl.
As far as red eyes, some birds will have them as babies and then they turn dark (again, I’m no parrotlet expert - this is other species). To have true red eyes, both parents would need to have red eyes.
I wasn't definite on if she's fallow, it was just a guess for the golden girlie.
As for the red eyes, both girls are over a year old, so I would think their eyes would have shifted color if they were going to already, but I am also no parrotlet expert. I did have some when I did breeding, but nothing more than a few clutches and only blue and greens. No cool mutations.
Is it just a myth that it's not safe to breed two ino eyed p'lets??
I just read in a forum this week that this breeder is known to invent their own color names and then call them “rare.”
I need to learn all this! Silly to have 6 p’lets and not know genetics.
Oh no! That's an awful thing to do. I'm glad I didn't think to take their names 100% seriously. I think it's their wording that really threw me off and labeling their birds as "xtreeeeemly rare."
Your baby is so precious! Definitely more of a solid color than Poet here, but they have similar faces! She's gorgeous!
You could always give photos to the store and ask them to ask the breeder?
That's a good idea. I might do that once she's home and I can get more photos of her. She comes home from the shop here in a few days!
What a cutie!
Yeah the photos didn't show the fallow! No worries
She still looks lovely
Thank you so much!! I'm not overly concerned on finding her color, I'm just super curious and learning genetics is really interesting to me. I've learned a lot about canine genetics and horse genetics, and now I'm learning more about birds again. Using my girls as a starting point for my curiosity. I used to know a lot more about them but when it came to color-breeding I was more of a cockatiel breeder in that area. My other birds were all less deep-dive into color genetic mutations.