My 5 week old babies

[birdymomma]

HPIM1958.jpg - Image - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting here they are playing on the boingy, they were a bit nervous but after awhile they seemed to really enjoy themselves

[ROYJOY]

very cute indeed!!

[CrazyBirdLady]

I just love the coloring of green series Cinnamons...so cute! Are both hens?

[birdymomma]

no idea lol

[CrazyBirdLady]

What do the parents look like? Cinnamon is a sex linked mutation, so if the father is a visual cinnamon, they are both hens and all males will be split for cinnamon. If the mother is visual cinnamon, then dad has to be split for cinnamon to produced visual cinnamons; therefore you could have both male and female cinnamon.

[birdymomma]

the dad is a really pretty pied and the mother is am. cinnamon here is the dad

[CrazyBirdLady]

He is a handsome boy & he is obviously a WF, due to the very pink beak and lack of brow color. He is also a blue series bird, which means all of your chicks will be split for blue and since he's pied, 50% will be pied to some degree (even if it's just a pink toenail). Since you are getting visual Cinnamons, he's also split for cinnamon, which might explain the slight grey coloring on his flights. This means your cinnamon chicks could be either male or female. Any non-visual cinnamon offspring will be male split for cinnamon. Whew....that was a mouthful!

[birdymomma]

so the normal green babies are male split to cinnamon then?

[CrazyBirdLady]

Sorry, sometimes my brain gets overloaded with genetics stuff.

Any males, not visual cinnamons, will be split for cinnamon and blue. Any hens will be split for blue, regardless of their visual mutation. So, green chicks could be male or female. I know, I'm not helping am I? LOL

[birdlady49]

Beautiful little babies! I hope you post photos on a regular basis so we can grow up with them too. I wish I knew more about lovebird genetics but I expect I'll learn all there is to know by reading this thread!