Neville 0 Posted April 18, 2012 Member ID: 4,610 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 5 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 714 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 3,640 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 23/08/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 15, 2015 Birthday: 09/12/1940 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Here are before and after pictures of three of my opalines.They started out looking like typical opalines but they have lost a lot oftheir colour after the moult. These three birds are not closely related. Link to comment
rachelm 0 Posted April 18, 2012 Member ID: 6,042 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 20 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 740 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 4,045 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 23/04/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 29, 2014 Birthday: 15/06/1977 Share Posted April 18, 2012 That's amazing Nev. The last one looks like a clearbody in the after photo. Link to comment
**KAZ** 0 Posted April 18, 2012 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 April 18, 2012 Looking a little mottled arent they Neville. You really have to stop using bleach in their spray bottle mate :D Are you getting as little more sun over there than usual ? Seriously though I have no answers for you but it sure is a good excuse for a few funnies Link to comment
GenericBlue 0 Posted April 18, 2012 Member ID: 4,737 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 106 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 5,156 Content Per Day: 0.92 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 28,240 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/10/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 27, 2021 Birthday: 08/09/1973 Share Posted April 18, 2012 you sure your not just bored photo shop can do that to a bird lol seriously though nev if your for real maybe its time for a outcross even if notclose related you need a bird with a good even color coverage try breeding your darkgreens to light blues this will help put the coulour back in your birds if you breed light to light alot this can happen over period of time Link to comment
Squeak_Crumble 0 Posted April 19, 2012 Member ID: 5,236 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 71 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1,025 Content Per Day: 0.05 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 6,515 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 23/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 27, 2013 Birthday: 11/06/1997 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Very strange.... I agree with the last looking like a clearbody though. Link to comment
Neville 0 Posted April 19, 2012 Member ID: 4,610 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 5 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 714 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 3,640 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 23/08/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 15, 2015 Birthday: 09/12/1940 Author Share Posted April 19, 2012 (edited) I like the effect of the spread of the white or yellow and I wondered if anyone else had seen anything similar. The bird in the first picture has opaline brothers and sisters that are fully coloured, She seemed to show more white after her second moult. The green bird is probably carrying a golden face gene, she is only about 5 months old so she might become even more yellow. There are no clearbodys in New Zealand as far as I know No bleach or photoshop and we haven't had much sun lately Edited April 19, 2012 by Neville Link to comment
The lion 0 Posted April 19, 2012 Member ID: 6,574 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 32 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 146 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 1,050 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/02/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 13, 2014 Birthday: 15/11/1989 Share Posted April 19, 2012 same thing happened to one of my opalines i hadn't noticed the colors changing till my GF pointed out to me if i had gotten a new bird, will post pictures tomorrow Link to comment
falki 0 Posted May 2, 2012 Member ID: 4,366 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 20 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 146 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 930 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 22/05/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 2, 2012 Birthday: 02/09/1981 Share Posted May 2, 2012 I had an opaline like that some time ago (photo below), we actually thought might be a clearbody, since she was already older when I got her, very mottled and later on actually gained more colour again and the mottledless lessened. Altogether 3 cases of "badly coloured" opalines that I have seen. The link shows a green male and his sister a friend of mine had. Later on I saw a mottled budgie in a petshop too, but at that time I was wise enough not to mix it to a clearbody (easley) I hope the picture is not too big?? http://s256.photobuc...%3DPICT7547.jpg Link to comment
stephen fowler 0 Posted April 22, 2019 Member ID: 8,841 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 0 Topics Per Day: 0 Content Count: 1 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 5 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 22/04/19 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 11, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2019 These three birds look more like Frosted Pieds than any clearbody. Frosteds tend to lighten with each molt and a variant of the Dutch Pied. Link to comment
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