The combination is striking. In a double dark factor bird, however, the violet color is overwhelmed by the dark factor, and becomes difficult to detect.
A parent bird with a double factor violet, paired against a non-violet bird will produce all single violet babies. There are great variations in the body color of one violet with another. It is the violet rump that shows the bird carries violet factor. The whiteface pied violet above is particularly beautiful, and "clear" with few pied marks on the back. The yellow with the violet undertones is excellent and will become more splendid as the baby reaches full maturity.
Babies take about 1 year get the full red face. This is another way to tell you have a young bird (see mature colors below). The violet factor gives the overall body color a deeper green tone with a bluish hue. The peach-face is a deeper red, darkened as well by the violet factor. In natural sunlight the violet pied marks can be rather subtle. Even the turquoise violet peach-faced lovebirds are an equally good example of successful mutation. They mostly have a patch of violet shades on their head and their chest displays an excellent combination of white and violet or blue violet. We even get mutations of violet lovebirds among the subspecies of Fischer's.
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