Jen144 0 Posted October 30, 2008 Member ID: 4,580 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 136 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 707 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 4,920 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 14/08/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 30, 2015 Birthday: 14/04/1995 Share Posted October 30, 2008 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: Link to comment
**KAZ** 0 Posted October 30, 2008 Member ID: 1,976 Group: Site Members Followers: 2 Topic Count: 521 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 25,294 Content Per Day: 1.28 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 152,977 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 24/01/06 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 6, 2015 Birthday: 07/01/1956 Share Posted October 30, 2008 (edited) 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 ?? Edited October 30, 2008 by KAZ Link to comment
Jen144 0 Posted October 30, 2008 Member ID: 4,580 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 136 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 707 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 4,920 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 14/08/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 30, 2015 Birthday: 14/04/1995 Author Share Posted October 30, 2008 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. Link to comment
krosp 0 Posted October 30, 2008 Member ID: 4,621 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 95 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 777 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 4,955 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 28/08/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 10, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2008 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! Link to comment
Jen144 0 Posted October 30, 2008 Member ID: 4,580 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 136 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 707 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 4,920 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 14/08/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 30, 2015 Birthday: 14/04/1995 Author Share Posted October 30, 2008 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.. Link to comment
krosp 0 Posted October 30, 2008 Member ID: 4,621 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 95 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 777 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 4,955 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 28/08/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 10, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2008 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. Link to comment
**Liv** 0 Posted October 30, 2008 Member ID: 3,771 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 147 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 6,621 Content Per Day: 0.33 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 39,450 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 23/10/07 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 8, 2014 Birthday: 09/04/1911 Share Posted October 30, 2008 (edited) 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. Edited October 30, 2008 by **Liv** Link to comment
Elly 0 Posted October 30, 2008 Member ID: 1,641 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 414 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 15,350 Content Per Day: 2.23 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 99,335 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/10/05 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 1, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2008 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. Link to comment
JimmyBanks 0 Posted October 30, 2008 Member ID: 4,130 Group: Site Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 112 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 4,370 Content Per Day: 0.75 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 25,112 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/03/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 1, 2015 Birthday: 12/02/1982 Share Posted October 30, 2008 very cute little budgie! Link to comment
Montie 0 Posted November 6, 2008 Member ID: 4,561 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 4 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 88 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 490 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/08/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 26, 2011 Birthday: 22/07/1975 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Oh wow, I hope it is a boy! Beautiful little thing! Link to comment
jwancia 0 Posted November 6, 2008 Member ID: 4,669 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 27 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 535 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 3,285 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 16/09/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 11, 2014 Birthday: 12/06/1987 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Oh, sunnie is such a cute little sweetheart! Congrats! Link to comment
birdluv 0 Posted November 7, 2008 Member ID: 2,137 Group: Global Moderators Followers: 0 Topic Count: 144 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 4,842 Content Per Day: 0.24 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 31,670 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 14/03/06 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 30, 2018 Birthday: 06/04/1978 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Very cute budgie. Link to comment
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