I hope I am not becoming a pest with all the photos but since JustAnja started it, you can blame her.
I've noticed that recently there have been numerous ads for Colombian redfoots and some of the ads have mentioned the golden colors or 'rare' all yellow phase. I have to laugh as there was a time when almost ALL of the imported redfoots (in this country) were from Colombia. Whats funny is that many of the redfoots from the 60s and 70s had no red scutes on them at all. My breeding group from when I was in high school (1970s) except for one male and one female, were all solid yellow.
The one pair had pumpkin orange mixed in with the yellow colors and they were really beautiful.
So I decided to dig up some photos that I took a few years ago when my friend Ted Tuchak, who was my breeding partner back then, brought over a Colombian hatchling from the one pair he still had that he got in 1968.
This hatchling is absolutely typical of many Colombian redfoots that we produced with various shades of yellow on the head. Occasionally, one would have white or even GREEN scutes mixed in with the yellow colors.
The plastron of these hatchlings are quite pale compared to cherryheads...
I love the various yellows that these guys have and in addition some have extremely nice yellow blotches on the carapace.
Of course, not all of them were just yellow like this one. Like I said, some had orange and even red mixed in with the yellow. But unlike the imported Suriname or Guyana redfoots that have basically one color of yellow on their head (with red legs), the Colombian animals could have several different colors mixed together on both head and legs.
I'm not making this up either...at one time I had a small imported female that had yellow colors on one front leg, and orange on the other!
I've noticed that recently there have been numerous ads for Colombian redfoots and some of the ads have mentioned the golden colors or 'rare' all yellow phase. I have to laugh as there was a time when almost ALL of the imported redfoots (in this country) were from Colombia. Whats funny is that many of the redfoots from the 60s and 70s had no red scutes on them at all. My breeding group from when I was in high school (1970s) except for one male and one female, were all solid yellow.
The one pair had pumpkin orange mixed in with the yellow colors and they were really beautiful.
So I decided to dig up some photos that I took a few years ago when my friend Ted Tuchak, who was my breeding partner back then, brought over a Colombian hatchling from the one pair he still had that he got in 1968.
This hatchling is absolutely typical of many Colombian redfoots that we produced with various shades of yellow on the head. Occasionally, one would have white or even GREEN scutes mixed in with the yellow colors.
The plastron of these hatchlings are quite pale compared to cherryheads...
I love the various yellows that these guys have and in addition some have extremely nice yellow blotches on the carapace.
Of course, not all of them were just yellow like this one. Like I said, some had orange and even red mixed in with the yellow. But unlike the imported Suriname or Guyana redfoots that have basically one color of yellow on their head (with red legs), the Colombian animals could have several different colors mixed together on both head and legs.
I'm not making this up either...at one time I had a small imported female that had yellow colors on one front leg, and orange on the other!
