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Look at this guys!!!!
I have 1 pearl baby in the nest!

Christie, I think we need to recalculate hahahahhahaha, gosh how did this happen???? Noah must be split for pearl as well then correct????

Saffron

guess it must be this Christie:


Mother:Whiteface Pearl Split To Pied
Father:Grey Split To Pied {X1: Pearl}

male offspring:
13% Pied Pearl Split To Whiteface
13% Pied Split To Whiteface {X2: Pearl}
13% Pearl Split To Whiteface
13% Grey Split To Whiteface {X2: Pearl}
25% Pearl Split To Pied Whiteface
25% Grey Split To Pied Whiteface {X2: Pearl}

female offspring:
13% Pied Pearl Split To Whiteface
13% Pied Split To Whiteface
13% Pearl Split To Whiteface
13% Grey Split To Whiteface
25% Pearl Split To Pied Whiteface
25% Grey Split To Pied Whiteface

Oh my gosh, those little babies are precious!

What a wonderful suprise!! Now if that pearl is a girl, it will keep those beautiful feathers.

Such cute babies!! Congratulations. I'm lovin that bright yellow crest. They are just adorable...

christie wrote:What a wonderful suprise!! Now if that pearl is a girl, it will keep those beautiful feathers.

I know and I am so tempted to keep him/her but I really don't have a big enough aviary and I am a sucker for pieds and we were going to keep the pieds, Saffron and Mango sighhhh
I wanna keep em all!!!!!!!

So Christie, Noah (dad) would have to be split for pearl, right???

Keep all of them Claudia! It does not take much more room for 2 or 3 birds vs. 6 or 7. You can always improvise on things that space might have limiting it. You are so lucky to have such a variegated clutch, especially for the pied. I'm a sucker for pieds also, and Missy, while a royal pain in the butt sometimes really is one of my favorites. Of course, Gizmo is a pearl, and he actually still has a few pearls showing, but nothing like when he was a wee birdie. Your chicks are growing so fast.. I know time is moving at warp speed for me, but seems like it'd be nice to keep them at the formative age for a bit longer. You'll probably be hearing flapping going on in the box if you haven't already. Fledging will happen without any fanfare if they do like mine did. Be in the cage, then all of a sudden 4 birdies come flying into the kitchen. What a display ...<sigh>

oh Sam, you make me laugh
I would love to keep them all, even hubby said today, we could get another aviary I beg your pardon honey? WHAT did you just say??????
Yeah, well, take one educated guess WHO cleans the aviary every day
YEP you got it
ME

I think we're in for another suprise though...........Mango, the littlest one with who also has a yellow crest..............seems to have pearl markings too!!!!!
Does that mean, since Mango has a yellow crest, that (s)he is a Pied Pearl??? (Pearl Pied??? ) or do Pearls sometimes get born with yellow crests too??

I will be more definite on Monday as Mango should be heaps more feathered again by then............

Yayyyyyyy I just had another look at the calculations above and yessssss it does say Pied Pearl woooooohhooooo

Yes, my guess is that Noah is also split for pearl. Lucky you!!! And like you discovered, yes, pied birds can also be pearl. Lucky you!

Thanks Christie, we are so ecstatic about it all!
Our first breeding experience, and what an experience it turned out to be Super parent birds, lovely beautiful healthy babies, what more could we have asked for (ummmm a Lutino hahahaha)

Well, it's true, here is our surprise package, Mango, our pied pearl
We're sooooooooooooooooo excited

The babies are gorgeous!!