trefto 0 Posted January 23, 2014 Member ID: 7,779 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 86 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 510 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 31/10/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 14, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2014 (edited) Can anyone tell me what they suspect the sex of this budgie to be? I'll call her a girl, because genetically she is a red eyed lacewing, which came from the nest of 2 opaline normal blue parents, so from all accounts she would have to have inherited the lacewing from a split lacewing father. She is quite pally with one of my young cock birds, as though they have an aviary romance going on, but from all that I can see from her cere she looks to be a boy. I have heard that lacewings mature at a slower rate than other varieties so maybe that has something to do with it, the pictures are of her at 3 months old, at that age you usually can get a good guide to what sex a young bird is, but this one has me wondering still. Edited January 23, 2014 by trefto Link to comment
BUDGIE L0V3R 0 Posted January 23, 2014 Member ID: 7,327 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 39 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 376 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 2,285 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/06/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 20, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2014 Hi Trefto, Very nice looking bird, has some strong wing markings for a 3 month old lacewing. From the pictures provided you would almost say 100% male but if it was bred from 2 normals it would have to be female. I have bred a few lacewings recently and have about 8 currently, from what I've noticed with my lacewings is that the cheek patches are brown but your bird appears to be blue. Not sure if it's form my monitor but it appears blue. Link to comment
trefto 0 Posted January 23, 2014 Member ID: 7,779 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 86 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 510 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 31/10/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 14, 2016 Author Share Posted January 23, 2014 (edited) Hi Budgie lover, yes my lacewing definately has violet cheek patches, not sure what the norm is or the standard expectation there. Its funny also because I don't even know how my lacewings father could have been split for lacewing, because both his parents were non lacewing, just a normal opaline blue hen mother and a dominant pied violet opaline cock father, and from aproximately 4 clutches total 15 chicks they have never thrown a lacewing, and yet the dominant pied violet opaline cock would have to have been split lacewing to pass the gene onto my lacewings father, and yet from 15 chicks he's never proved it. bit of a mystery to me. Here is a photo of the same chick at 1 month old and at 3 weeks old, she was very heavily marked. Edited January 23, 2014 by trefto Link to comment
BUDGIE L0V3R 0 Posted January 23, 2014 Member ID: 7,327 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 39 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 376 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 2,285 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/06/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 20, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2014 I had a closer look at my lacewings and instead of brown cheek patches they have pale violet. Not as strong as the cheek patches of yours. Link to comment
trefto 0 Posted January 24, 2014 Member ID: 7,779 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 86 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 510 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 31/10/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 14, 2016 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 Yeah I think pale violet might be the normal, but did notice this fella of mine his cheek patches darkened significantly as he got older. Link to comment
rachelm 0 Posted January 24, 2014 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 January 24, 2014 He is a cinnamon fallow Link to comment
trefto 0 Posted January 24, 2014 Member ID: 7,779 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 86 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 510 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 31/10/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 14, 2016 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 Nah I dont think its a Fallow, as it has no body color its just white and every visual appearance points to it being a heavily marked lacewing, Link to comment
Finnie 0 Posted January 25, 2014 Member ID: 5,135 Group: Global Moderators Followers: 0 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,545 Content Per Day: 0.48 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 14,055 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2020 Birthday: 06/08/1965 Share Posted January 25, 2014 I assume you are cage breeding and not colony breeding? Because every one of those photos says "male" to me, sorry. Link to comment
trefto 0 Posted January 26, 2014 Member ID: 7,779 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 86 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 510 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 31/10/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 14, 2016 Author Share Posted January 26, 2014 (edited) lacewing rant Finnie, to get a visual cock bird lacewing in my aviary, I would have to have had either a pairing of a visual lacewing cock bird to a visual lacewing hen bird, or a normal split lacewing cock bird to a visual lacewing hen bird, since my lacewings parents were an opaline sky pied cock and a df violet sky opaline hen, then I really don't see how genetically this bird could be a cock bird, I can only conclude that the cock bird parent sky blue opaline pied is split for lacewing. I have one other visual lacewing in the aviary and that is a yellow lacewing hen bird. I don't see much likelyhood of the yellow lacewing mating with a split lacewing cock and laying eggs in anothers nest box, my df violet sky opaline hen's nest box, the nest the lacewings came from, and then obsconding. And this has happened twice now, with a visual white lacewing showing up in two seperate clutches of the blue opaline pair mentioned above. So theoretically I still expect this could be a girl. The possible pairings with this variety when paired to non-lacewings (let us use the word "normal" for simplicity) are: 1) Lacewing cock x Lacewing Hen = 50% Lacewing cocks and 50% Lacewing hens 2) Lacewing cock x normal hen = 50% normal/Lacewing cocks and 50% Lacewing hens 3) Normal cock x Lacewing hen = 50% normal/Lacewing cocks and 50% normal hens 4) Normal/Lwing cock x Lwing hen = 25% Lacewing cocks, 25% normal/Lacewing cocks, 25% Lacewing hens and 25% normal hens 5) Normal/Lwing cock x normal hen = 25% normal cocks, 25% normal/Lacewing cocks, 25% Lacewing hens and 25% normal hens Edited January 26, 2014 by trefto Link to comment
rachelm 0 Posted January 28, 2014 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 January 28, 2014 100% cock bird. A hen at this age would have a white,blue or brown cere. Cinnamon fallows are almost identical to lacewings. The cinnamon takes away the body colour. Link to comment
Finnie 0 Posted January 29, 2014 Member ID: 5,135 Group: Global Moderators Followers: 0 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,545 Content Per Day: 0.48 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 14,055 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2020 Birthday: 06/08/1965 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Rachelm, for it to be a cinnamon male, it would still have to have a cinnamon mother. But the fallow gene is non-sex linked, right? So there is the possibility of it being hidden in both parents. I don't see much likelihood of the yellow lacewing mating with a split lacewing cock and laying eggs in anothers nest box, my df violet sky opaline hen's nest box, the nest the lacewings came from, and then obsconding. I agree with you, this does seem highly unlikely. Link to comment
trefto 0 Posted January 29, 2014 Member ID: 7,779 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 86 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 510 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 31/10/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 14, 2016 Author Share Posted January 29, 2014 Yeah personally I think it looks like a boy, judging from its cere color. but its got me beat on how it could be, because of the pair it came from and the genetic implications of sex linkage. but then if it were a fallow that could be a possibility passed down from both parents, but I also believe its actually a lacewing, so I'm totally confused how it gets to be a boy based on the lacewing inheritance factor. Maybe it is a fallow like rachel says. Whatever, it is a lovely bird, and maybe through breeding I can determine better what it actually is. we'll just have to wait and see. Link to comment
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