Creamface cockatiels

Creamface is the fourteenth established mutation. The Creamface mutation first occurred in South Africa to Mr. Lester De Kok. Margie Mason brought Creamface to USA about 2003 or 2004. The South African mutation is currently being bred by Jason Patin of Lafayette, Louisiana. The Creamface is very interesting and unusual mutation. The mutation affects to yellow and orange pigments, by greatly reducing the intensity, but not entirely masking them. It visually looks like a combination of Whiteface and Pastelface. If you compared a Pastelface side by side with a Creamface the differences are apparent. Visually a Pastelface will look like any normal mutation with a pale peach colored cheek patch. Visually a Creamface will look like any Whiteface mutation with a dilute tint of yellow to the crest, and very dilute peach colored cheeks.

Upon hatch the chicks will have a light yellow down. As they pinfeather, the crest will come in a very dilute lemon color. Creamface are very easy to breed and are prolific and excellent parents. Like pastelface they are best paired with visual Whiteface in order to get visual Creamface offspring in the nest. The natal down appears white with just a very slight tint of diluted yellow. As the chicks pinfeather they will appear to be Whiteface. If a breeders looks carefully they will note a very faint/dilute yellow coloration to the crest, more intense near the cere, and a very faint diluted peach color to the ear patches.

The Creamface can also be paired with normals for splits to Creamface. A Split to Creamface will look subtly different than a split to WF. The facial masks of the split adult cocks will have a diluted yellow.