Every pied bird is beautiful in its own way. Whitefaced Violet Pieds have always been one of my most favorite combinations. This is what started it all for me. I saw one of these birds and new I had to have not just 1 but many for myself. I am now currently handfeeding my 4th generation pied birds. When exhibiting pied love birds, the more symmetrical the piedness the better. For example, if a pied bird has 2 yellow wings on their right side, they should have 2 yellow wings on their left. Symmetry is very hard to achieve among pied birds, because it's in many ways random. However if you do find a pair that produces symmetrical birds, then many times they will produce symmetrical pieds more often. Symmetry is in itself not a sign of a good or bad pied bird, but is one of the those things that judges look for when judging the pied section. For pied birds, beauty is always in the eye of the beholder.
Breeding Goals: Produce heavily pied symmetrical(all white or dark flights) whitefaced violet pieds that have nice size.
This is a very beautiful creamy looking Whitefaced Violet Pied Baby. Its owners reserved the bird last year after seeing the picture and drove all the way from Indiana to pick her up. She was gorgeous! Part me of course wishes I had never let her go and kept her in my breeding program. (3rd generation pied)
[Metamorphosis] This is also a Whitefaced Medium Violet Pied baby. See how different the first two birds look from each other. This is also from my 3rd generation of pieds. The first two birds are cousins.
Whiteface Medium Pied Violet Adult (Father/Grandfather) --> This is the 1st Pied lovebird that I've ever owned. From the moment I saw the mutation online, I new I had to not only have one but breed an abundance of them. It took me over a year of searching before I found him. He came from a line of champion show birds. This is an adult bird and is considered heavily Pied. The Pied refers to the random yellow markings, in this case covering the majority of the bird. The whiteface is a little misleading, since the bird does not have a whiteface due to the pied mutation. Some people say Blue Pied Violet instead. However, the underlying blue gene is whiteface. The bird also is a Medium meaning that it has 1 dark factor. Whiteface birds that have 2 dark factors are called Slates, because the 2 dark factors combined create a gray bird. This is the grandfather and great grandfather to all of my pieds. This bird is the grandfather to the Whitefaced Violet Pied in the first picture. (1st generation pied)
This baby Whitefaced Medium Pied Violet is an offspring of the dad above. He is also violet but the picture didn't come out too well. He is also heavily pied but not as much as the father. He was one of my most prettiest babies of 2004. Unfortunately, during a house move in 2004, one of the cage doors somehow flew open, and this baby flew away. : * (Perhaps if he was lucky, he somehow survived the Chicago Winters and found another love bird that flew away and there are now beautiful Whitefaced Violet Pieds living in your backyard). (2nd generation pied)
[Metamorphosis] This baby hen is also the offspring of the dad above. She is a Whiteface Medium Double Violet Pied. The pied here is more suffused while the violet is extremely prevalent. She is a very, very beautiful bird. One of the things that I like the most about Pieds is that no two pieds look alike. They are each unique and beautiful in their own right. This bird is actually the mother to the pied in the 1st picture. The next picture is this baby bird as an adult in 2006. (2nd generation pied)
This was my first clutch of Pieds and Violets, and perhaps will forever be my most favorite clutch. Each bird was so unique looking and the colors were so detailed as if drawn on by an artist. Their father is the bird in the 3rd picture on this page.