Will a peachfaced and an eyering produce young?
The answer in this case needs a caveat: look to previous question. Yes, is the answer. Peachfaced and eye-ring crosses will produce offspring. For the most part the chromosomes are different enough that people believe that the offspring of peachfaced and eye-rings are sterile or mules. For the most part this is true. However, this seems based on the desire to produce offspring immediately from the combined offspring. This rarely occurs, and leads people to draw the conlusions that the offspring are all mules or hybrids. The reality is that whatever separates the Peachfaced and the eye-ring seems to require a longer “gestation” period, if we can use that term. At two years of age, it has infrequently been found that the offspring are indeed fertile, and capable of siring offspring. When people are not warned of this eventuallity and shove the bird in with a similar looking bird ( dependent on the similarity with parental cross), the birds get down to business and the next generation (so
