Dilute Mutations One of the beautiful and rare mutations in African lovebirds, there is not much breeding. Novice hobbyists think they are pastels.
Some people who have done breeding may also surrender to dilute.
Because it is very difficult to get dilute with a proportional color. The dilute is supposed to be shiny and resemble the color of fluorescence or highlighters.
Almost all were born very pale, less attractive to many people for business in dilute mutations.
Dilute is a melanin mutation; the inheritance mode is autosomal recessive.
Like other recessive mutations, you must have a pair with an allele to get it.
Some also think birds are a combination of pastel and Edged, which resembles diluted and label them diluted mutations. But genetically, they are very different. When breeding, indeed, the results are different from what is expected.
Diluted mutation reduces plumage's Eumelanine (Black Pigment) by up to 80-90%. As a result of this, the feather becomes pale. Their devolution mode is autosomal Recessive and should undoubtedly be paired alleles to dilute chicks on F1.
Otherwise, you have to work in 2 stages to get the dilution. You should work with normal/dilute birds in the early stages.
Basic knowledge of green and blue dilute lovebird mutation
Dilute can be translated literally as liquid, so it's as if the lovebird's color is melting from its original color. Changes occur in melanin pigments and only affect the color of the fur.
Dilution causes the color of the fur to become younger because the term "Dilute" means more diluted. Cases of quantitative reduction of eumelanin caused damage to eumelanin's distribution (transport). Disruption of eumelanin distribution is caused by the existence of normal dendrites and myosins.
All normally formed eumelanin granules are not all feathered for several reasons. This, for example, occurs in Edged and Dilute birds.
One of the reasons is an error during the transport of eumelanin (Normal) granules. This causes dilute-coloured birds.
In the case of dilute eumelanin pigment distribution to the body, tissues occur normally, but there is a disorder in the distribution process to feathers.
The condition is sticking some eumelanin granules, so they merge further. The unification of some eumelanin granules is called "macro melanosomes."
Probability of Dilute
Dilute X Dilute
100% 1.0 Dilute
100% 0.1 Dilute
Dilute X Normal
100% 1.0 Normal/dilute
100% 0.1 Normal/dilute
Dilute X Normal/dilute
50% 1.0 Normal/dilute
50% 1.0 Dilute
50% 0.1 Normal/dilute
50% 0.1 Dilute
Normal/dilute X Normal/dilute
50% 1.0 Normal/dilute
25% 1.0 Normal
25% 1.0 Dilute
50% 0.1 Normal/dilute
25% 0.1 Normal
25% 0.1 Dilute
How to produce dilute green lovebirds
You must pair two dilute factors to get light green on F1. So, all the young chicks you get are diluted green.
When we only have one dilute factor on the cross, a few steps must be made with selecting and crossing the chicks in F1 until we get the young chicks diluted green in F2.
How to produce dilute blue lovebirds
If you pair two diluted blue factors, you can only get light blue on F1. It's different when you only have one dilute factor, and it's in a diluted green state.
A few steps have to be done, and you will get a green bird / dilute on F1, then cross it back with sesame F1 to get diluted blue and diluted green on F2.