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Just Hatched
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I have a female Sun and a male Green Cheek Conure that have been a bonded pair for about 9 years. They lay 2-3 clutches of eggs a year. This time on April 4 one of the eggs hatched . Something my vet said would almost never happen. I am hand-feeding the baby and he is doing well. Has anyone out there ever seen this hybrid? I would like to know what to expect... health problems... what he might look like... anything you can tell me???
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| Wow... speechless! I hadn't thought that pyrrhuras and aratingas could hybridize! But then again some d0 look pretty closely related! I don't know of any reports of hybridization between these two types of conures, thus your not likely going to find any information. Although you shouldn't have encouraged them to breed, let alone lay eggs, I'd be interested in seeing what the chick(s) turns out to be! Most likely it will be predominantly green... but other than that no clues! There was recently a conure hybrid 'discussion' going on at http://conuresandmore.proboards20.com/
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Wow, I really hope you will be able to post some photos of this little guy when he gets older. Good luck to you with this new little fid!
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I never encouraged this pair to breed. My husband brought home the green check one day. He rescued it from a horrible pet store who should not have been allowed to even breed mice. We did not think that the two birds would get along and put them in different cages. But as soon as they got a look at each other it was love a first sight. We tried to keep them separate but all they would do was make these horrible screams until we let them be together. The vet and breeders I talked to said to just let them be as there was little chance they could reproduce. Little did they know. I guess love and nature always finds a way.
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I have what is believed to be this same hybrid. We bought him as part of a pair of green cheeks and the more I talked to the woman the more suspicions grew. When at the lady's house there was very low lighting and bad conditions and so we couldn't leave them there and ended up with a love bird to boot:). We didn't notice until we got them home that he has suspiciously orange-red-yellow spots at the top of the wings. as well as having pineapply yellow on the breat feathers. He is mostly green cheek coloring and no noticeable differences in any way from a normal bird other than this color variation and a high probability of sterility as he is six and was paired since two and they never produced fertile eggs together. I do not want to make it out like this chick will turn out wrong as this bird is fine but I would suggest removing any potential nesting sites as there must be a high probabilty for defects with this kind of cross. I am posting two pics of him, one is the condition he was in when I purchased him, note the bad feather plucking the other is the condition he is in now, he is just getting most of the feathers back as he is molting, not sure if all will grow back. Unfortunately he is scrunched just enough to hide the orange feathers at tips of wings in the recent pic, it covers very little area, but that just goes to show haw little comes across. 
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He is either a green cheek, or a maroon bellied hybrid... I doubt he has any aratinga in him. There are green cheek mutations with orange cheek patches, and picking on feathers can create discolored feathers... I'm thinking though that he may very well be a normal green cheek with some odd discoloration.
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| bird_n_hand: I have to agree w/ Monica: your conure looks like a regular green cheek to me as well, esp. in the second picture. Here's a link that you might find interesting. Tt shows some of the different GCC mutations : http://www.feathert.com/greencheek.html. To the OP: I hope that the sun/gcc hybrid baby is doing well! I'm anxious to see pictures :)
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| Thought it was a caique and another species? Oh well. Would be nice if there was actual proof (i.e. photo) of said bird. What is surprising is a report by Sick in the Birds in Brazil of a hybrid bird from a pairing of a black-headed caique (P. melanocephala) with an Illiger’s macaw [Propyrrhura (Ara) maracana], a very different species.
http://www.baywood-pets.co.uk/bhcaique-info.html
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Parrotperson (5/9/2007)
Mfids,you once told me that you didn't think they could hybridize, but I remember reading about a caique and a severe macaw breeding together. Anyway,(to orginal poster) I want to see pics of the sun/GGC conure baby. I love suns and I have a GGC. I hope he doesn't have any problems! Hmmm... I thought a caique was of another species to... Well, I suppose nothing is impossible, thought I do think that is unlikely or just someone who was a severe and a caique and the caique just laid eggs. What the bird in the picture appears to be (from my perspective) is a GCC. It has the coloring and the only thing that I can see may be different about this bird is that it seems a little big, but I havn'tspent much time around GCC's, excpet babies. Now, if this baby is a GCC/Sun Conure, it will probably be mostly green. I would think that is may have a few traces of other colors and will probably take after one parent or the other rather than look like a complete cross. Now, with these birds being different in nearly every way, it seems a little odd to me. I mena, macaws for instance. There are many hybrid macaws out there, but they are the same family and therefore it doesn't seem so impossible. However, ot have a sun and GC bredd is a little out of the ordinary. Anyhow, do we get to see some pics???
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