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Hi new to lovies got these guys in a trade.
The mother looked like the one on the left with a lot more yellow.And the father looked like the one in the middle.I was reading somewhere that some traits(morphs) where only carried by certain sexes,is this true?

The birds in the photos are still babies so it's hard to give a complete name to what you will have as adults. I can tell you that all 3 are blue series lovebirds and that the upper left and lower right are Pied Blues. The one in the upper right hand corner is either a Dutch Blue, a Whiteface Blue, or a Seagreen, depending on what color facial mask the bird has after the first moult.

Lovebird genetics can be a very complicated thing to explain but traits are either dominant, co-dominant, recessive or sex linked. For example, green is the dominant color, while blue is a simple recessive. Violet and Pied are co-dominant and ino is sex linked.