REDRUMPS
Opaline Orange and Cinnamon Opaline Orange Redrumps (acquired early 2011)
2 young 2011 Orange Cinnamon Opaline cocks (below left)
Rubino Orange Redrump cock
I started with a pair of Cinnamon Opaline Redrumps, which to this day I think were the most pleasing to my eye, of all the colours I have had since.I have a pair of Australian Blue/ Opaline/Pastel X Blue Opaline/ Pastel , which has produced a bird I don't recognise.
Australian Blue / Pastel cock with Opaline Blue / Pastel hen
I am calling it a 'Pastel Cinnamon Opaline Blue'-- I don't think it is a Pastel Opaline Blue. It has very pale chocolate flight feathers/tail outers, and I don't know if either parent was carrying Cinnamon, although one of them must be, appearance says the bird is a hen.
Probably ? Pastel Opaline Blue hen - (from pair top left)
Again the pale chocolate outer tail feathers suggest it has cinnamon, but I didn't know either parent was carrying Cinnamon, however, if it is a hen, it must be the cock.--If you can help name it accurately --please let me know. It has a pale turquoise rump, -- see pic.
Young from Pair top left
Australian Blue mutations have been produced in such volume that they have become very difficult to sell -- [ Only 3 years ago, -- a friend in Australia was telling me, that over there, at the time people were asking £1200 for an Australian Blue cock in England, - they couldn't sell them there for $Aust30.], but now here they can be bought for £30 or less, -- and have been replaced by the Orange Rubino and Pastels -- (and other Orange variants) -- which in my view are very beautiful specimens, -- these originally and also quite recently, have come from a combination of the English Blue and the Australian Blue.