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Diamond doves are small birds
roughly the same size as a budgie, and they
are easily kept and bred in small individual cages
or walk-in flights. Their diet is a mixture of finch
or parakeet seed and Gamebird The list below describes them
and information on the genetics of these mutations.
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COLOR
VARIETY, GREY or BLUE or WILD TYPE Original Wild-type, a blue-grey bird, dominant to most other color varieties. Grey and Blue Diamonds are two names for the same bird. SILVER The first color mutation, a pale, dull light grey "silver grey" color, recessive to the wild type. Very attractive. CINNAMON This mutation was first called Rufous diamond. It is a very distinctive mutation, varying from cinnamon-brown to rusty-red all over the upper body. The flight and tail feathers pale grey with no black pigment, which makes even the darkest cinnamons easy to distinguish. The most attractive cinnamons are light colored birds. Young birds are very pale, with rich cinnamon-red color above.As they mature, the adults assume a body color which retains vivid rust pigmentation on back and wings. It is recessive. CINNAMON WHITETAILS VERY FEW The Cinnamon Whitetail is an attractive combination, It resembles Blue Whitetails, These birds show very little cinnamon color, but they have very attractive wing coloration which identifies them as Cinnamons. |
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