| One of the most exciting
aspects of keeping and breeding Love Birds is the large variety of
color mutations that have been established. At least 17 distinct
mutations have been established in the Peachfaced Love Bird, probably
more than in any other species of captive parrot except the budgerigar.
Click below for more information about the currently established Love
Bird mutations. Also visit the New ALBS Picture
Library!.
Essential
Genetics for the Terrified by Chris Rutt gives beginners the basics of how color
mutations are inherited.
Wondering what a given pair
of birds could produce? Check out The
Peachfaced Love Bird Genetics Calculator!
For our more advanced
breeders, you can try out Rasek's
Genetics Calculator for more mutations and combinations.
Peachfaced
Mutations
Recessives
Blue,
Whitefaced Blue, and Seagreen.
Orange-faced
Fallow
American Yellow (Dilute) and Japanese
Yellow (Imperial Golden Cherry)
Australian Recessive Pied (dark-eyed clear)
Sex-Linked
Characteristics
Lutino,
American Cinnamon, & Australian Cinnamon
Lacewing
Opaline
Partial Dominants
Dark
Factor
Violet
Dominants
American
Pied
Green
Other
Longfeather
Color Changes
Which are not Genetically inherited
Red Suffusion
Mutations in the Masked,
Fischer's, Black-Cheeked, and Nyasa
Specific mutations:
Blue
Lutino
Yellow (Dilute)
Dark Factor
Violet
Fallow
Pied
Mutations in other Love Bird
Species:
The
Abyssinian Love Bird
The
Madagascar Love Bird
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