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I just got a new bird from a friend. They had two, and a snake got the oldest one they had for a long time..and their kids didn't really pay attention to this one. And so they gave her (I'm assuming its a girl, she looks like it) to me. She's a yf2 Cobalt (or Violet?) and probably 2-3 months old, because she stil has her bars on her head. But, though she still has those, she has iris rings, even more obvious than on one of my other birds who went through his moult a few weeks ago.. :(

Anywho, here's some pictures of her, in the cage she came with:

 

Sunny4.jpg

 

Sunny2.jpg

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Beautiful !! Looks YF type one violet to me :( Any closer pictures so we can sex it for you ?

 

 

PS How did a snake get the other budgie ??

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Beautiful !! Looks YF type one violet to me :( Any closer pictures so we can sex it for you ?

 

 

PS How did a snake get the other budgie ??

 

 

I can't really get any closer photos, I only got her a few hours ago and I don't want to stress her any more than necessary at the moment. But probably tomorrow I could.

How's she look type one by the way? I heard that before their moult (assuming she hasn't moulted yet) yf2's can be blue, and later the green starts to come through?

 

I'm not sure, they said that somehow a snake got into the cage, and they found the other budgie half-eaten by the snake..they killed the snake, but the bird was already dead. It didn't get Sunny though, apparently...luckily.

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Aww pretty... reminds me of my Cosmo :(

 

It could be older than 2-3 months - the age of the first moult and losing the bars varies a fair bit. But obviously still a baby, and young enough to tame.

 

I can't see the cere well enough at all from the pictures, but I'm not convinced it's definitely a female. I would really need to see the nostrils to be sure, but there's enough colour there that it could be a boy. Not that I am certain it's a boy, just that from that distance I think it could easily be either.

 

Good luck and looking forward to seeing close ups!

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Aww pretty... reminds me of my Cosmo :(

 

It could be older than 2-3 months - the age of the first moult and losing the bars varies a fair bit. But obviously still a baby, and young enough to tame.

 

I can't see the cere well enough at all from the pictures, but I'm not convinced it's definitely a female. I would really need to see the nostrils to be sure, but there's enough colour there that it could be a boy. Not that I am certain it's a boy, just that from that distance I think it could easily be either.

 

Good luck and looking forward to seeing close ups!

 

Hmm..I didn't know that the developing iris rings and the losing the bars varies..I've just checked on him/her again and had a closer look..I'm pretty sure 'she' is a 'he' lol..His/her cere is pink, with blue around the nostrils, and considering how white-ish his irises are, I'm saying..4-5 months maybe? 6 at max.. I especially think its a boy because it has no white on the cere...ah well, Sunny is a good enough name for a boy.. :)

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Yeah I have no idea how old Cosmo is either. He hasn't moulted yet and his iris rings are only just starting to lighten up. I reckon could be anywhere between 3-6 months which is a huge range lol.

 

 

I think the main way to tell if it's YF1 or YF2 that age is to see whether the yellow is only on the face, or whether there is yellow between the wing patterns too. Like for a normal, they have dark feathers on their wing but the tip is either white or yellow, if that makes sense. Also whether there is any shade of green at all through the body. Cosmo is a YF2, if you look at my signature you can see his blue is a kind of slightly greenish tinge - at least, compared to the very bright blue that nonYF can be.

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What a cutie. From the colour of the cere in the photo, Sunny looks like a boy to me :)

So pleased Sunny escaped the jaws of the snake :fear

 

A YF1 the yellow face colour is restricted to the face only

YF2 the yellow bleeds though the body feathers and sometimes though the wings and tail too. some YF2 genes can turn a blue budgie completely green.

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He/She is a cutie. To let you know Merlin got his iris rings before he molted and they were very defined so if he hasn't had the first molt I would say he would be around the 3 month mark but some babies do molt later.

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very cute little budgie! :o

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Oh wow, I hope it is a boy! Beautiful little thing!

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Oh, sunnie is such a cute little sweetheart! Congrats!

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Very cute budgie.

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