The way forward to improving the opaline

IT’S unfortunately the case that we have lost the best of the opalines in recent years. In fact, this mutation has been in decline since the early 1980s. Let’s look at the reasons why this has happened.

The features of the opaline should be the brilliant opalescent body colour, and the clarity of the head and saddle – the area between the wing butts. Today’s opalines are almost indistinguishable from normals. Those true opaline characteristics