Sailorwolf

Yep

Yeah mine used to do flips through it too. It broke though . I need to get a new one.

No that is definitely not a Goldenface. Look at my signature. The "green" bird with Arkady under his picture is a Goldenface. He looked almost exactly like a bright green bird. I know he is a goldenface as he was blue when I first bought him. This is Arkady; a goldenface:

He appears male. Is he clipped at the moment? A clipped bird finds it harder to balance when they mate, because they use their wings to "hug" the female and keep balance. Ps. he's a cutie

Right. Both Yellowface DF when crossed with a normal will produce all yellow faced babies that are single factor .

Our's is : Mostly fine, but cloudier with brief showers in the west tomorrow. Metservice Looking outside there is a nice breeze with blue skies and a bit of cloud. With a temp somewhere near the 20's I guess (celsius) Oh yeah: time is 5:20 pm Friday 16th Jan

We use the term parakeet. Like kakarikis aka red crowned parakeets. Indian ringneck parakeet Plum headed parakeet. Rosellas Red rumped parakeets. But then, I also call some birds this: Quaker parrot Alexandrine parrot When you think about it. If the definition of a parakeet is a parrot with long tail feathers, then wouldn't a macaw count? I always thought parakeets are that and are the smaller parrot species. So I think of parakeets as little parrots with long tails.

Post a picture of his cere and the set up and we should be able to help you

Where I have underlined Elly made a mistake. She was meant to write White face. A yellow face type 1 bird is a bird with yellow only on the mask. A yellowface type 2 bird is a bird where the yellow bleeds into the body colour. The genes work slightly differently. In Yellowface type 1. A bird carrying no YF1 genes has a white face A bird carrying 1 YF1 gene has a yellow face A bird carrying 2 YF! genes has a white face In Yellowface type 2 A bird carrying no YF2 genes has a white face A bird carrying 1 YF2 gene has a yellow face A bird carrying 2 YF2 genes has a yellow face (its yellow on its body is more mottled) This is the general consensus. I am still finding the details to be a bit fuzzy. Side note: Spangle is not the typical Somatic Dominant. I believe that it is actually codominant, which works a different way. A dominant gene should phenotypically present the same when an animal has 2 genes as when it has one. Spangle does not adhere to this rule and it, along with dark factors, grey factors and violet factors all work codominantly.

The thing with Lace wing is that ino and cinnamon resides on the same chromosome. They are linked genes. Pairing an ino with a cinnamon is unlikely to give you lace wings, if the bird is not already one or carrying both cinnamon and ino together on the same gene. There is a chance for crossover, but like RIP said, this is not a common occurrence. The same is true for any genes that appear on the same chromosome. They are linked. Thus because they are linked, they are very hard to produce and separate. I have a hen who is both cinnamon and opaline, which could only be the result of crossover as her father is a normal, split for cinnamon and opaline. However I know that he is not carrying cinnamon and opaline on the same chromosome (he has cinnamon on one X and opaline on the other), because he also has 2 other daughters (to the same mother), one is only a cinnamon and the other is only an opaline. I have only just realised now, how even more special my little girl is, that she is a result of crossover. So now whenever she has babies she will always pass on the cinnamon-opaline chromosome. Crossover is when a chromosome cuts off part of itself and swaps it with its homologous partner (I think this is right. *trying to remember biology*), to further increase diversification in the offspring.

However Rainbow, it is only the Americans that prefer to call budgies by their group name; Parakeet, rather than their more specific species common name; Budgerigar.

I kept mice in the same room as budgies for years. I never washed my hands from one to the other either (I was a kid, so I didn't think about it) and I never had problems. If the mice aren't sick then they are unlikely to pass anything to your birds anyway. Not letting them toilet in the bird's food is common sense, just like not letting the birds toilet in their own food. There is clean and then there is paranoia. I also used to let my rat, chinchilla and budgies out all at the same time (they were all supervised, I don't recommend letting rats out while budgies are out, I did this before I discovered that rats will eat budgies), without washing my hands in between. To be honest I still don't wash my hands between handling my different pets, unless one is sick. For instance I take my chinchilla out of her cage and into her sleeping cage and then I let my budgies out. If they are living in the same room and same home and no one is sick, then there is no need for it. Seeing as budgies pick up their own poop in their mouth and play with it. Budgies have just as much chance to make your mice sick as the mice can make your budgies sick. We used to keep our budgies on top of the chinchilla cage. One of our chinchillas became sick and he was put down. When we told the vet this, they suggested that having the budgies on top of the chinchilla cage was probably not very good for the chinchillas. A period of quarantine is always a good idea though and it is during this time that you should wash your hands in between pets, but once the month has passed and everyone is healthy then there is really no need to worry. Oh a side note. Having budgies flying over your mice can be very scary for the mice as they think it is a predatory bird hunting them. This goes for all rodents.

Hi and welcome to the site!

But even then the babies would all appear as half Yf and half normal. The 'normals' would just be DF Yf1.

Lol, Pack n' Save. Why? I always thought we were lucky ending up with black and white as our national colours. I don't know how that happened, but I think they complement each other nicely lol. We also have green birds! Most of our birds are either green, blue, brown or black!! Exciting colours!

You would get mixes. It is advised not to mix the two as yf2 is considered a fault and dirties the Yf1 gene.

I'm confused about Kaz's post. It just linked me to the picture with lots of budgies in the room. I don't know what she meant. Ooooo I get it. She posted the picture to show what the bush colour really looks like!!!

Birds have different coloured irises like humans do. Some of my birds have grey iris rings and are 3 years old, others have white and are younger.

Pieds would occur but they would get eaten very quickly. We have/had (haven't seen it in a while) a pied black bird at our uni campus. One of the wild ducks also had a yellow duckling, which got eaten very quickly too. Opalines don't stand out as much, but in the doco it said that the yellow and black on their backs help them to camouflage in the grass, so an opaline one would make them stand out a bit more and thus get eaten first, depends. Spangle is a very recent mutation and is very unlikely to occur in the wild. It would make the bird brighter in contrast to others (on its wings) and thus easier to spot in trees and grass.

I'm confused

Wow, poor birds. I'm so glad so many people stepped in to try and help the birds though.

That's really good to hear. We are all glowing with pride now

Those are some really nice cars! I saw Bolt. It is a cute movie. I thought the Hamster was beawesome.

I was in a hurry and forgot to say that some of the wild tuis around the country have started singing the Pizza Hutt ad jingle and others copy moblie phones. My mother heard a tui 'get' a text message the other day.

I just saw this little fella on the news. He's real, he's not dubbed or anything and is quite a cutie. He can't fly so lives out his life at a wildlife park. Enjoy: Woof Woof He talks about Kakarikis quite a lot. These are native New Zealand parakeets that they keep at the wildlife park.