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Here are two pictures of a pair I paired up today. Pair 298110:

As you can see the cock is bouncing but not feather perfect

Next to the cock the hen looks small even though I never had the impression she was small

The cock is 2011 own bred and won me best young cock bird beginners. He's got a deep mask and huge spots. The head is also very good. The only downside is its flecking.

The hen is 2010 own bred and an aunt of this cock. She is visually my best own bred hen (except maybe for its 2011 flecked & inbred nieces that go against one of the new outcrosses). In her days she was an improvement in mask and head, but compared to the best 2011 chicks she seems to be less in mask and certainly needs some more blow. This cock will surely help her with that.

Last season, mated to her father, this hen bred a cock and a hen. The son won best young light green cock bird beginners in a full class. Nevertheless it just didn't make the breeding team as a main cock. The daughter has the directional feather but is too narrow for my taste. She is planned against an outcross (see this blog entry).

The cock promises to be a caring dad as saw him regularly feeding a baby in the bigger cage.

Colour


It are two cobalts mated together, so I might get some mauves. Not that I think mauve are a particularly nice colour, but somehow I always like breeding them. I gave up my original mauve line as they were not up to scratch (though there are still same traces, even in some main pairs).

Somehow I've got the feeling the cock could also be a sky blue violet, in which case I could get visual violets (wishful thinking ?)

Here are the full colours of the parents:
Cock: cobalt opaline-cinnamon (from a sky A. yellowface cock and a cobalt opaline-cinnamon hen)
Hen: A. yellowface cobalt (from a light green cock and an A. yellowface cobalt opaline-cinnamon hen)

Cocks from this pair should be blue series birds and have normal markings possibly with the A. yellowface factor. Hens from this pair will be the same, but with the opaline and cinnamon factor added. I like it when I can recognize the gender in the newly hatched chicks: In this case black eyed cocks vs plum coloured eyes in the hens.