Written by: Amitt Ramgattee
Featuring: Patricio Estévez
With many mutations coming about, some mutation aren’t only about color change dealing with plumage but also the beaks, legs and nails as well.
What is the Red Urucum Mutation? Its main characteristics are the acquisition of carotenes in the beak, legs, skin and nails; appreciable as they break the shell; intensifies and extends the lipochrome throughout the specimen; deposition of lipochrome in the snow changing the white hue by a red hue not as intense as the non-snowy area of the feather; and above all produces an alteration in the pen structure, making them unmistakable with respect to the lipochrome not affected by the mutation.
In Melanics, he find special interest in the diluted series, where its corneal parts have a clear tonality and the effects of this mutation can be seen more clearly. Of all his tests, which have not been many, regarding melanic urucum / yellow beak, he has not been able to observe any modification of melanins as a result of the mutation.
The expropriation with Ivory mutation, produces a dilution of the whole Canary from a red dye to a "pink" dye if we refer to urucum; exact effect when changing the color red to yellow, for yellow beak specimens; because of this combination of mutations we can say that the Ivory mutation also affects the beak, legs, skin and nails.
With respect to mosaics, from his point of view, the ideal mosaic Urucum would be the one that presents the zones of choice red (as intense as possible and with absolutely no frost) and the rest of the plumage of a "white-pink" tonality due to the effect of the mutation, as the greater the contrast he retains that the specimen will be better (it is necessary to look outside the zones of choice for a tonality as small as possible, trying to obtain the white one), not to forget the feathers and corsairs that the maintenance of the food proper of the mosaics of the lipochromes should be while White. In this way we would have a mosaic of Urucum, with 3 tones:
The red of the areas of choice typical of the category mosaic, beak, legs and nails.
The "White-Pink" that will occupy the edge of the rest of the feathers by the correct action of the mutation.
The white color of the feathers and vaporizers that would indicate that we are really facing a mosaic. For the yellow beak it would be exactly the same, changing the Red lipochrome to the yellow.
The White Wings of Urucum have red beak, legs and nails; and the tonality of feathers and gains colors is while White.
With such a descriptive detail of this mutation given to me by the breeder himself I also wanted to know him as the person who began breeding. He started at the outsides of Voladera where his father and him began with about 20 pairs. Those pairs contained Glosters, Pastels, Red Mosaics, Opals, Red Factors, Northern Frills and even Diamond Mandarins as he gained for his desires.
I wondered why did he decide to combine the red urucum mutation with the red factor mutation. He told me that “all the mutations, indifferently of the category or structure of feathers of a canary, manifest themselves generating a phenotype influencing these characteristics.” He also mentioned the importance of genetics saying it is essential to have some basic notions for these wonderful birds and above all to understand the mechanisms of transmission of the characters you're raising. Basic understanding comes from Darwin and Mendel’s laws but due to constant evolution it is hard to keep up to date. He believes this is the beginning of the Red Urucum Mosaic line and believes everything needs to be improved until perfected. Currently he has Red Urucum, Red Ivory Urucum, Rubino (Red Factor Ino) Urucum, Rubino Ivory Urucum, Red Urucum White Wings, Red Ivory Urucum White Wings, Red Urucum Mosaics. He also have many up and coming projects soon to be released. I will soon follow up on his new projects.
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