Plan Your Breeding

Self Green Yellow Cock

The ideal colour is a rich grass green, with as little bronziness as possible. Clear, distinct markings on the flanks and back, with the legs and beak matching these markings.
This bird would be a cinnamon carrier if its father was a cinnamon and its mother a normal green.

Self Cinnamon Yellow Cock

The cinnamon Fife is a beautiful bird. It is a green minus the black pigment, once referred to as a 'burnished copper' colour. As the cinnamon is produced from parents carrying the recessive genetic colouring, it is the only colour that can be accurately predicted whilst constructing a breeding programme.

The breeding of good cinnamons requires basic genetic knowledge, which I deal with in depth in the book and video2.

Variegated White Ground Cock

What is a white?
All birds have a basic ground colour, irrespective of the other colours and markings they have. Whites are not albinos, (this is where a total lack of melanin produces a pure white bird with no pigmentation), instead the normal yellow base colour is genetically suppressed, producing a white bird.
Whites are not sexed linked. A white cock or white hen would produce offspring of 50% normal and 50% white of either sex.