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Hi all,


Just thoughth I'd post a quickie note to let everyone know we have had a most enjoyable visit with Sue Roges (Rhodie) and her friend Ginger, who both drove down from R.I. not only to visit with us, but also visit our (soon to be part of their kids Anyhow, with all the commotion, little was done w'r/t kids but,we app seemed to eijoy each others company. Sue will be taking some of our babies with her not only for herself, but she has some friends who want 3 males, which will in all likelyhoood will be Gizmo & Missy's 3 boys. Hopefully, each will adapt as well as Patches and JJ have taken to their new surroundings and seem to bd quite happy in their new homes.Gonna have to finiah on desktip as lpfop iz screwed... morse zhoortly

Sam

OK, I"m on the desktop now, but no promices will be any better. I"m used to an old IBM micro swtch kbd,, and I only have one, on my linux mahine her at the house. Anyhow, Sue and Ginger have been wonderful guest, attended a ballgame in ATL yesterday, and of course that gave us a break to take care of business as usual during the week. I'm searching for a small =<20" diameter floor buffer/scrubber and not having much luck. Can you imgine how much poop 28 cockaiels can generate in 24 hours? You need a manure shovel Anyhow, dunnow when they plan on leaving, but we've decided the number of birds she'll wind up taking with her, which will still leave us with over a dozen. My main prefrences for keepers would be of course Smokey, Pixie, Gizmo, Missy, Suzie, Chirp (bonded siblns) but best of the gang) Yuki, which us Japanese for "snow white", and I assure you, when she is fully feathered out, she'll e compleely white with ruby or plum eyes and pink feet. She's gotta get away away from others before she'll ever get used to the rest of us. It seems the more chicks, and more people in the room, the wilder they get. I'm still learning, believe me.. and I learn stuff every day. Sorry to have to break the message, but the laptop keyboard is more of a PITA than anyhing else.

MOre rambling as time permits...

Sam

Glad to see you here Sam.....I hope they had a good trip down! be a little harder coming back with birdies. I really wanted to meet up with them when they come back when go to meet up with Lin and the other girl here in Mass. I was thinking it would be on Sunday, and turns out I'm scheduled to work on Sunday now. I think I am off on Monday though, so let us know when when they're coming back with babies!

Ok.. before I get on yet another soapbox about vista, I'll post the picture(s). I've lost my text I typed 2 times now somehow, and it's getting quite irritating. The pictures below were from the cellphone camera, so the quality is not the best, but you can get an idea about her coloring, assuming she's a she... gonna be hard to tell with NO color of anykind except white! Here's Yuki (Japanese Snow)

So who produced "Snow White"???
She is gorgeous!!!

Since they were brother and sister, they both carried the whiteface from Smokey and the male carried the Lutino gene from Smokey. It was sheer luck that the baby turned out that color with the other mutations that they carry.

The pure white tiels are a whiteface lutino. If Smokey hadn't been whiteface, then the parents of this bird wouldn't have been split to whiteface, and this baby would have been yellow instead of white.

Here is what they have the chance of making, note the whiteface lutino is only 13% chance.


Mother:Grey Split To Whiteface
Father:Grey Split To Whiteface {X1: Lutino}

male offspring:
13% Whiteface Split To {X1: Lutino}
13% Whiteface
13% Grey Split To {X1: Lutino}
13% Grey
25% Grey Split To Whiteface {X1: Lutino}
25% Grey Split To Whiteface

female offspring:
13% Whiteface Lutino
13% Whiteface
13% Lutino
13% Grey
25% Lutino Split To Whiteface
25% Grey Split To Whiteface