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mutation question
« Thread Started on Sept 3, 2009, 6:12pm »

To produce olive babies do both parents need to be olive? I have an olive red collar cock and am trying to find him an olive or cinnamon hen with no success. Any help would be appreciated\
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Re: mutation question
« Reply #1 on Sept 4, 2009, 7:59am »

hi not sure if its the same thing but i have a normal and a olive scaley and i always get one normal bub and one olive out the clutch

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Re: mutation question
« Reply #2 on Sept 4, 2009, 10:19am »

If one is olive you will most likely get 50% olive and the other 50% split to olive. think that's how it works!! ::)

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Re: mutation question
« Reply #3 on Sept 4, 2009, 11:41am »

thanks guys, im new to lorry mutations. im preety good with teils but cant really find anything on lorries!

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Re: mutation question
« Reply #4 on Sept 6, 2009, 12:04pm »

yup,theyre right,it will be 50-50 as to what youd get from a olive with a normal,and if the offspring were to go with another normal it would be 25-75,and if the offspring were to go with another olive youd have a 75-25 chance of it being olive,ive seen a similar mix of rainbows with only normals as babies,so its just a chance youll get any olive,split birds are always a good thing if you ask me,it can go any where from there.good question.cheers

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Re: mutation question
« Reply #5 on Nov 2, 2009, 9:01am »

Actually none of the above are quite correct answers.
The grey green (aka "olive) mutation is a codominant mutation - it comes as either single or double factor - bith visually the same appearance.
A double factor bird mated to a normal will produce 100% "olive" offspring, single factor.
A single factor bird mated to a normal will produce 50% olive & 50% normal young - all olives will be single factor.
Two single factor birds mated together will produce 50% single factor olives, 25% double factor olives & 25% normals.
Being a dominant mutation splits are not possible.
The % of olive offspring will not chjange as you go through the generations, it will remain as above.
Hope this helps
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