A completely red Congo African Grey has been breed in South Africa. This process has taken nine years and started with greys with a lot of red in the feathers. The picture appeared in the October issue of Avizandum. At the moment I can't scan the pictures and story since it is copyrighted, sometimes copyright infringements are taken seriously here. I will see if I can get permission to post. I just thought it interesting.

I would be real interested in seeing those pics.

I just realized the there is a picture of the baby on the cover which is not copyrighted. The other pictures inside and the story is copyrighted.



The baby is eight weeks old in this pic

i hope this is safe
What a shame if this baby grows up to have all sorts of problems,

It is fine to post. The baby should grow up fine. I know certain types of mottled red spots are indicators of liver problems, but this is true mutation color similar to ringneck mutations. There are also white tailed grey that do occur in the wild and incomplete ino's, whiteish birds with red tails.

Very interesting...

Angie does the article state how many generations this took? Not knowing anything at all about breeding birds I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not, but that baby sure is pretty.

I think this is the fourth generation from the original birds. It takes at least 3 years for a grey to mature hence the nine years. The baby I think is F3 or maybe F4. The article does not say exactly just that they started in 1998. The article talks about F2 pied birds. The article talks about how mutation breeding has long been perfected in ringies, lovebirds, teils etc. This baby is not hybrid but a color mutation. The starting pool was 4 birds. There is a picture of an unrelated pied also, a broad band of red feathers across the abdomen. The sibling of this baby is pied.

wow, that is an amazing mutation. i hope it won't be the cause of any health concerns.

She is just gorgious...Just seems a little weird.