Hello Everyone!
I have been looking up information on the RED FACTOR gene in African Greys... I can't wait for you to see what i have found so far! I have uploaded piccies to the gallery...Not just African Greys, there are some beautiful MUTATIONS as well...
Greys breeding in the wild or in the home has no effect on their color gene excess or lack of excess. The gene is simply there. How far back that development of the special gene occured is anyone's guess.
In the wild, greys who will breed don't look upon other greys as being inferior if that coloring is visible. They simply take care of business as usual. The same applies to greys who are being bred in a home environment. What the chicks will look like color wise, that's up to nature. Maybe they will have visible excess coloring, maybe not. The only thing for sure is that the excess color gene will be in the chicks. If they were to breed in the future, that doesn't mean that their offspring will definitely show excess color. It might take 20 yrs to show up again or it might take 1 yr to show up again or any number of years in between. It's all up to nature.
In 1992, A federal law was created which banned all species of parrots from being imported into the US from any country but before that, the savages who were doing the capturing tried to avoid nabbing any grey who visibly had that red excess color at the time of capture but for only one reason...they felt that they wouldn't get as much money because the bird wasn't identical looking as the others. What they didn't know was that many normal looking greys already had that gene even though it wasn't visible.
More to come...
