Indigo is one of my most stunning birds. When people see him, he truly stops people in their tracks. His violet is so deep and so purple that his name is very befitting him. He's the only Violet Masked I've ever owned, and I'm working really, really hard to try and get him and his mate (a Medium or Cobalt Blue Masked) hen to produce). Masked love birds don't breed as readily as the Peachfaced species do. To help them along with the process, I've given them palm fronds which they've used to build an intricate nest. I'm hoping that in the next few weeks, I'll see some eggs, and then maybe some Violet Masked Babies!!!
Breeding Goals: Produce Violet Masked Babies. This isn't such an easy task, if you don't have the right genetic combination and not to mention luck. A Violet Masked will only look fully violet, if it has 2 violet factors or 1 violet factor and 1 dark factor. A blue masked bird with 1 violet factor will look the same as a blue masked bird with 1 dark factor. A slate masked bird will mask the violet, so there are only certain combinations that will produce birds that will look identical to Indigo, even though other babies produced could be caring the violet which would make them important for breeding as well.
Indigo is either a Single Dark Single Violet Masked love bird or a Single Dark Double Violet Masked. The only way I'll know for sure is by breeding him. If he is truly double violet, then all of his babies will be single violet, whether or not they can be differentiated from the Medium Blue Masked.
Here is a more up close piture of Indigo. He's only a little over a year old. I really hope I have lots of success in breeding him. The Violet mutation in Masked is not that old, maybe 15 years or so, but for some reason, it's almost died out in the United States. I only know of less than a handful of people who have Violet Masked and most only have 1. Hopefully we can all work together to re-populate this mutation.