The New Babies

[The lion 0]

just wanted to share the pictures of the new babies my budgies had enjoy (sorry about the picture quality im not good with the camera and also for not putting them in order lol )

help me identify the 5 babies mutations please thanks

 

 

These two are the parents

 

 

 

[Finnie 0]

Hi Lion. How sure are you about those parents? Because a green bird can't be split to both yellowface and blue.

 

They sure are gorgeous chicks, though.

[The lion 0]

Hi Lion. How sure are you about those parents? Because a green bird can't be split to both yellowface and blue.

 

They sure are gorgeous chicks, though.

 

Because ever since i got that pair ive kept em together on the same cage this was 3 yrs ago, their are no other possible mates for them on that cage, i can provide pictures of their previous clutch from February maybe that will help??

 

Thank you

[Bad Hair Day 0]

_{Have to agree with Finnie, Yellow face mutation is dominant. Because green birds already have a yellow face you generally don't see the yellow face mutation when expressed on the green series birds. Occasionally you may see a dis-coloured green through the chest area where the yellow from the face and mask has bled into the surrounding feathers, just the same as you see it on a blue series bird. That would make the cockbird a yellow face green.}

[Jodie 0]

Okay here what I think. I think you have.

Normal skyblue clearflight dominant pied

Normal violet greywing

Normal skyblue greywing

2x Normal violet dominant pied with greywing yellow face (I am possibly thinking golden face but I could be completely wrong)

Normal skyblue greywing

For some reason I feel like dad is a golden face.

Some more experience members will correct me if I am wrong which I feel I am, sorry.

[robyn 0]

Beautiful chicks, whatever their mutations.

[Finnie 0]

_{Have to agree with Finnie, Yellow face mutation is dominant. Because green birds already have a yellow face you generally don't see the yellow face mutation when expressed on the green series birds. Occasionally you may see a dis-coloured green through the chest area where the yellow from the face and mask has bled into the surrounding feathers, just the same as you see it on a blue series bird. That would make the cockbird a yellow face green.}

 

Hi Bad Hair Day. I think you might be misunderstanding the green-yellowface-blue series. Yellowface is only dominant to blue. It is recessive to green. All three lay on the same locus of the chromosome, so a bird can only have two copies, and they can be any two of the following: Green, Goldenface, yellowface mutant two, yellowface mutant one, or blue.

 

So if a green bird also has a yellowface gene, then it is green/yellowface (green split to yellowface) and is a green bird. Green is completely dominant to yellowface, so you cannot see both mutations at once. But it is possible for some yellowfaces to be very dark and look like greens, so maybe that is what Lion has.

 

I think Jodie has the mutations of the 5 chicks right, except to remove the word "clearflight" from the first dominant pied chick (the sky blue), and I think that one of the two yellowfaces is a regular greywing, but the other one is a dilute. I think both of the yellowface chicks are cobalts, not violets, although violet can be hard to distinguish in photos.

 

Good job, Jodie.

 

Another interesting thing I notice, is that they all appear to be boys. The normal greywing sky blue is the only one I see that looks like it could potentially be a girl.