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Purchasing an Albino


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There is no such thing as a commercially available type of grey that's an albino unless there's something seriously wrong in the genes that control color. You may have been thinking about a different species of parrot that you heard about or had seen.

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An albino is a completely white bird. The only thing you may have seen on this board could have been a grey with a white tail or other parts that were white. That's a bird who's minus a special color gene. There's also greys that have excessive red genes. If the bottom photo is what you're talking about, that bird was not bred to look like that. That's an accident of nature.

If there was a grey ( or greys) that looked like that white one and were commercially available, the bird would cost approx $150,000. Recently, gene manipulation was done on greys for a number of years in order to produce one completely red grey. It was successful and the bird now costs $175,000. By the way, the white grey isn't an albino. It still has a red tail.

 

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Ive heard the RED's are worth a lot i wasn't aware the whites were worth the same or close to... Thanks for the info Dave. I love the blue mutation with the white tail. Ive actually got a couple TAG's now showing blue colouring on their belly and back feathers. Again thank you.

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