Funky Colored Greys

[SchroedersJen]

A friend sent this to me, it is an article that focuses on red factor greys, but has some great pics of an all red grey, a grey with a white tail and a mostly white grey....They are beautiful burds, and there is some mention about the red being possibly indicative of a liver disorder.....How many of you with red factor birds have had your pets regularly seen by a vet? Do your birds have liver issues? I'm just curious.

 

http://www.tailfeathersnetwork.com/community/showthread.php?t=49155

[jasperk]

thats a cool link the all red bird is very interesting i still like just a plain old grey thought

[Tycos_mom]

These birds have been on here alot I always thought that all red grey looked sickly. Thats what happens when you start playing with the gene pool. Normal red factor Greys happen in nature and there is absolutly no reason why they shouldn't be any healthier than any other Grey. Its only when us humans start fooling around that we see problems look at the dog world now they are doing the same thing to birds selective breeding is just wrong. Its the poor animals that suffer for it.

[Dave007]

Red factor birds are no different than greys who don't have that color red. It's simply an excess color gene that comes from either the parents, grandparents or even older relative birds in the past. There's nothing scientific about. There might be a clutch that has one chik with excess genes and the others don't. The next clutch may have no greys with that excess gene or all the chicks may have it. Many people are excited when their bird has that extra red coloring. There's loads of red factor greys out there and some of them actually lose those red feathers and well as their other feathers during the first full molt, which disappoints people simply because it was temporary. Other greys keep the red feathers permanently. Health wise, they're exactly the same as greys that don't have any excess carotoid coloring.<br><br>Post edited by: Dave007, at: 2009/03/27 20:29