20/03/2025
Hello to all followers,
I have been absent for a while, but I continue to keep an eye on the world of aviculture.
I am happy to see some individuals correcting past mistakes, although they are 5 years behind, but the most important thing is to correct the mistakes.
Five years ago I explained that the masks of roseicollis do not contain only red psittacine as mentioned in some books, the example I gave was to better understand the characteristic orange face.
I hope this individual also corrects the serious error about Euwing (in fact it is ECB) and Slaty (in fact it is grey).
Greetings
In this picture we can see a feather of the green mask Agapornis roseicollis.
Does the feather on the roseicollis mask only contain red psittacofulvin?
Some observations to these plumes revealed more than red psittacofulvin, yellow psittacofulvin is also present and it is still possible to observe some traces spongy zone and small pigments of melanin.
If all these pigments are present in the green Roseicollis mask, it will not be easier to understand mutations such as Orange face, Aqua or Pied ...
Orange face:
Recessive or dominant incomplet?
Change from red psittacofulvin to orange or reduction from red psittacofulvin?
Aqua:
Reduction of yellow psittacofulvin and still keeps red?
Pied:
The masks in this mutation are also affected. If the mask only contains red psittacofulvin this should not happen if we are talking about a melanin reduction mutation.
The moment some breeders are asking: if the mask has melanin because it is not affected in SL_ino? Well I don't know ... (for now) but I know that some mutations affect only one of the melanins(eumelanin or pheomelanin)...