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A male orange head, white breast, double factor yellow back, a male black headed normal, and a female red headed white
breasted green back. (9/29/05)I had originally paired the hen with the yellow backed cock, but she has not been showing much
interested so far. I have been told that by adding an additional cock, the hen will usually bond with the original cock.I
will post a verdict in the next week or two.
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Two orange headed purple breasted normals, along with a slate headed pastel cock. This photo is a good illustration
of the differences in coloring between cocks and hens (even though the hen is still finishing up her juvenile molt). Notice
the more vibrant, more sharply-defined coloring on the cock (center), while the hen's (far right) colors are more muted.
The young hen was only 13 weeks old when this photgraph was taken. She is one of the fastest gouldians I have ever had color
out into their adult plumage.
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A yellow-headed dilute cock and a red-headed white-breasted normal hen. The cock is split-to-black head and
split-to-white breast and the hen is split-for-orange head, giving this pair the ability to produce eight different phenotypes
for male offspring and sixteen different phenotypes for female offspring.
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Another shot in the breeding aviary with the yellow-bodied hen in front. I wanted to get a better photo of the
red-headed white-breasted cock (ducking behind the red-headed purple-breasted cock), but he seemed content to stay in the
background. I have been trying to get them to pair up.
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