The second parrotlet chick hatched today. It's the smaller pink blob on the right.
It caused me a moment of panic when I first looked at it because it doesn't have dark eyes like I'm used to (the eyes aren't open yet but you can see the colour through the skin). I then remember that lutino, albino and fallow parrotlets exist so it looks like my green pied pair are probably split for a red-eyed mutation unless this chick is a random fluke. I'll be interested to see what colour it ends up being.
It caused me a moment of panic when I first looked at it because it doesn't have dark eyes like I'm used to (the eyes aren't open yet but you can see the colour through the skin). I then remember that lutino, albino and fallow parrotlets exist so it looks like my green pied pair are probably split for a red-eyed mutation unless this chick is a random fluke. I'll be interested to see what colour it ends up being.
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