Recessive Silver
or Ashen Fallow
or Ashen Fallow
Rec Silver Pearl Pied Hen
Rec Silver Hen
WF Rec Silver Pearl Pied
Cock
Cock
The Recessive Silver is a light, clear silver
grey bodied cockatiel with red eyes. Their
beak and feet are pink colored due to the
reduction of melanin (the black, grey, brown
coloring). Body coloration varies greatly
from bird to bird depending on the amount
of melanin that is reduced.
As the name implies it is a recessive gene
and must be carried by both parents. It can
also be carried as a split. Recessive Silver
can be found in the whiteface and normal
cheek varities, as well as pearl and pied.
It is not recommend to mix Recessive Silver
with other melanin reducing mutations such
as Dominant Silver, Olive, Lutino,
Cinnamon, or Bronze Fallow.
Genetic specialists are finding that the
Recessive Silver is actually of the fallow
mutation. Since it retains the bright red
eyes into adulthood and degree of melanin
reduction determining if it is the clear silver
color or the more yellow suffused of the
Bronze Fallow. It is still recommended not
to mix with the Fallow in order to keep the
different color strains pure.
grey bodied cockatiel with red eyes. Their
beak and feet are pink colored due to the
reduction of melanin (the black, grey, brown
coloring). Body coloration varies greatly
from bird to bird depending on the amount
of melanin that is reduced.
As the name implies it is a recessive gene
and must be carried by both parents. It can
also be carried as a split. Recessive Silver
can be found in the whiteface and normal
cheek varities, as well as pearl and pied.
It is not recommend to mix Recessive Silver
with other melanin reducing mutations such
as Dominant Silver, Olive, Lutino,
Cinnamon, or Bronze Fallow.
Genetic specialists are finding that the
Recessive Silver is actually of the fallow
mutation. Since it retains the bright red
eyes into adulthood and degree of melanin
reduction determining if it is the clear silver
color or the more yellow suffused of the
Bronze Fallow. It is still recommended not
to mix with the Fallow in order to keep the
different color strains pure.
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Comparison of the body
color of a Rec Silver (left) to
a SFDS (right)
color of a Rec Silver (left) to
a SFDS (right)
WF Rec Silver Pearl Pied Rec Silver Pearl Pied hen
cock
cock