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I have 2 females that have reached breeding age now (1 of them is sitting on eggs tho no other bird is in with her)
1 of the females (the one sitting on 7 eggs, wow) is solid white no red eyes. The other female is a Whiteface.
I have 2 males. 1 of them is a pearl the other is a whiteface pearl (none of the 4 birds are related at all).
Can anyone plz help me figure out which males to put with which females and what the babies colors might be!
I'm really hoping to get more white faced pearls, pearls, more white faced. I have another pair that's been giving me babies and they often give me pearls and lutinos. I'm wondering if i should wait for my breeding pair to give me a lutino male to try and pair with my white female tho she's def ready for a mate now!
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I have normal greys, whiteface, pearl pieds, creamface cinnamons, and pearls.
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It sure sounds like you have some very interesting potential breeding stock! I myself am a BIG fan on any whiteface mutation. First let me point this out: Sadly we humans don't make the choice of potential mates, the BIRDS do. Since your wanting WF pearles, I would TRY and pair up the WF female with the WF pearl male. You can put the two in a separate cage and see if they will mate, but again, there is no guarantee. I myself have a WF male and a cinnamon pearl WF female that just had there FIRST egg today!!! We are so excited about this as we've been trying to get these two to mate ever since they've been old enough too and it's finally happened!! Please keep me informed of what you decide and come up with.
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It sure sounds like you have some very interesting potential breeding stock! I myself am a BIG fan on any whiteface mutation. First let me point this out: Sadly we humans don't make the choice of potential mates, the BIRDS do. Since your wanting WF pearles, I would TRY and pair up the WF female with the WF pearl male. You can put the two in a separate cage and see if they will mate, but again, there is no guarantee. I myself have a WF male and a cinnamon pearl WF female that just had there FIRST egg today!!! We are so excited about this as we've been trying to get these two to mate ever since they've been old enough too and it's finally happened!! Please keep me informed of what you decide and come up with.
Robert
That's so awesome congratulations ❤❤❤❤ ... i hope my birds pair up too
 

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A BIG thanks for your comments! Buzz and Auzzie ( my two whiteface ) pair have had two of there 5 eggs hatched! They are still to small to tell what either will look like but we are very excited! Keep us posted on YOUR birds.
 

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I have 2 females that have reached breeding age now (1 of them is sitting on eggs tho no other bird is in with her)
1 of the females (the one sitting on 7 eggs, wow) is solid white no red eyes. The other female is a Whiteface.
I have 2 males. 1 of them is a pearl the other is a whiteface pearl (none of the 4 birds are related at all).
Can anyone plz help me figure out which males to put with which females and what the babies colors might be!
I'm really hoping to get more white faced pearls, pearls, more white faced. I have another pair that's been giving me babies and they often give me pearls and lutinos. I'm wondering if i should wait for my breeding pair to give me a lutino male to try and pair with my white female tho she's def ready for a mate now!
I'm also avail on Facebook messenger; Angel Jefferson (my profile pic is of me hugging a friend of mines daughter while on top of a paint horse)
Firstly have you shined a light towards the eyes as some have very dark Ruby eyes that look black. What colour is the birds feet?
If it definitely doesn’t have red eyes Then the only conclusion I can think of is, it must be a poor marked pied? As it is unlikely to be a blue as these are still very rare. You mention your males being pearl. How old? Do they still have pearl markings? The white faced gene is recessive so both parents have carry it to produce it, so you need to bare that in mind to which bird you pair the normal pearl to.
Pearl, the same as cinnamon and the ino gene, is a sex linked gene passed from father to daughter. So with both males being pearl which ever you pair them to you will produce pearls, which will be females and all the males in the clutch will be non visual/split for pearl. Some examples are: pair a male pearl to a normal female all the pearl babies will be female and all the males will be non visual/split for pearl. Pair a male pearl to a female pearl and all the babies both male and female will be pearls. Pair a normal male to a pearl female and all the babies both male and female will be normal. But the males will be split for pearl. Females can not be split for a sex linked gene they either are or they are not. So likewise with your all white female even if she is a white faced Lutino, you wouldn’t produce any unless the dad was split for the ino gene.
If you wait to put a Lutino male to your all white bird, then you will produce Lutino females, not white faced lutinos unless you Lutino baby is carrying white faced.
 
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