https://lunarkiri.com/blog/ Articles on green-cheeked conure care, written carefully and sourced. en https://lunarkiri.com/blog/sex-linked-colour-in-green-cheek-conures/ https://lunarkiri.com/blog/sex-linked-colour-in-green-cheek-conures/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Birds are ZW, not XY. The hen decides each chick's sex and the cock decides every daughter's sex-linked colour — which is why a cinnamon hen paired with a normal cock produces no cinnamon chicks at all. https://lunarkiri.com/blog/what-does-split-mean-in-conure-genetics/ https://lunarkiri.com/blog/what-does-split-mean-in-conure-genetics/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Split means a green-cheeked conure carries a colour gene it does not show. You cannot see it, only two things prove it, and hens cannot be split to cinnamon or yellow-sided at all. https://lunarkiri.com/blog/what-is-a-pineapple-conure/ https://lunarkiri.com/blog/what-is-a-pineapple-conure/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT There is no pineapple gene. A pineapple green-cheek carries cinnamon and yellow-sided at once, both on the same chromosome — which is why breeding them surprises people and why most calculators get one case wrong. https://lunarkiri.com/blog/first-week-with-a-green-cheek/ https://lunarkiri.com/blog/first-week-with-a-green-cheek/ Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT What to change, what to leave alone, and what settling in actually looks like for a green-cheeked conure in its first seven days at home.