Neville

50% dominant pied, 50% normal. No opaline unless the cock is split for opaline. If he is split for opaline then you'll get opalines of both sexes. Half of the chicks should inherit the violet if he is single factor, they will all inherit single factor violet if he is double factor.

Thank you for the compliment Libby. It comes from being old! :hap:

Yes it is possible to breed a lacewing from an ino and a cinnamon but not in one generation. Also the genes have a very low crossover rate so it could take quite a while. From the ino mated to a cinnamon you would need to select a male chick which would be split to both cinnamon and ino but wouldn't show either mutation visably. When this young cock is bred there is a chance that there could be a lacewing among his daughters

Ozzy is clearwing as well as opaline spangle. He is a really beautiful bird If Ducky has black eyes she is a double factor spangle Angle is an opaline sky blue Xena is a recessive pied light green If Ozzzy was mated to Ducky you'd get spangle males and opaline spangle females, probably all green series. If he was mated to Angel you'd get opalines and opaline spangles in green series, but if he is split for blue you get blue series as well. If he was mated to Xena you'd get normal males, spangle males, opaline females and opaline spangle females, no recessive pieds unless Ozzy is split for rec pied. To get clearwing opaline spangles like ozzy his mate needs to be carrying a clearwing gene. The ideal would be an opaline clearwing

There are 3 different yellow face mutations so if you are breeding yellow face budgies it pays to know which type you have. They all have a dominant breeding pattern which means that if any mutation of yellow face is mated to a non yellow face you could expect 50% yellow face chicks If two type 1 yellow face budgies are mated together they will produce a white faced bird that is in fact a double factor yellow face. If this bird is mated to a normal budgie it will produce yellow face offspring. This is not the same as being split for a mutation If two type 2 yellow face birds are mated together they will produce yellow face chicks that don't have nearly as much yellow fusing with the body colour as their parents. The third common type is the golden face it's breeding pattern is similar to the type 2. If your pair are one from each group you could get combinations the same as you get when mixing other mutations

I think Neat has covered it

Yes a budgie can be both single factor dominant pied and clearflight pied at the same time. These two mutations are very similar so if your bird had both it would be quite difficult to tell without test breeding. The dominant pied is a lot more common

She is an opaline dominant pied sky blue

I'm not sure whether her base colour is mauve or cobalt but I think it's cobalt, the violet is an added shade. So she is either Spangle Mauve Violet or Spangle Cobalt Violet. Having no opaline will make a slight difference to the chick predictions I made in my earlier post

The pictures loaded for me this time. The new hen is just spangle, no opaline

I agree with Sunnie too

The pictures won't load on my computer for some reason so I'll make some predictions for the chicks based on Neat's assessment of the mutations. I have noticed that she usually gets them right Opaline spangle sky blue cock mated to a cinnamon cobalt hen will produce: spangle and normal males, opaline and opaline spangle females, no cinnamon unless the cock is split for cinnamon. The chicks will be half each of sky blue and cobalt. Opaline spangle sky blue cock mated to a mauve opaline spangle hen will produce: 50% opaline spangles, 25% double factor spangles that are masking opaline and 25% opalines. They will all be cobalt and if the hen is violet half of them will have violet added. Yellow face cobalt greywing cock mated to a mauve opaline spangle hen will produce: 50% spangles and 50% normals. No greywing unless the hen is split for greywing. No opaline unless the cock is split for opaline. Half of the chicks will be yellow face. They will be half each of cobalt and mauve. If the hen is violet half of them will have violet added Yellow face cobalt greywing cock mated to a cobalt cinnamon hen will produce: All normals 50% cobalt, 25% sky blue and 25% mauve. Half of them will inherit the yellow face. There will be no cinnamons unless the cock is split for cinnamon and no greywings unless the hen is split for greywing Sky blue greywing cock mated to a mauve opaline spangle hen will produce: 50% spangles and 50% normals. No greywing unless the hen is split for greywing. They will all be cobalt. Sky blue greywing cock mated to a cobalt cinnamon hen will produce: All normals. Half sky blue and half cobalt. There will be no cinnamons unless the cock is split for cinnamon and no greywings unless the hen is split for greywing In all these pairings there is always the possibility that the birds are carrying other genes that we can't see so some surprises are always possible

Red eyes are often the product of a camera flash. I viewed this file before I was able to post and decided that the hen was a double factor spangle not a lutino and that all her chicks would be spangles

If it is a disease it probably wouldn't be heritable. If it is a condition brought about by inbreeding and you wanted to reproduce it you would have do do more inbreeding which could have very negative results. Most of the mutated genes that have given us the variety of colours that we now have have involved inbreeding to establish the strain. If the short tail is caused by a mutated gene it would be possible to reproduce it

Great photos. The cinnamon spangle is looking good now

The bird on the left is a type 2 yellow face dominant pied sky blue. The bird on the right is a dominant pied cobalt. The difference between pied types shows in the way that the pied pattern is distributed

The first egg is usually laid about 7 days after their first mating