Everything posted by Sailorwolf
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Ernies New Play Gym
I can't wait to see the floor to ceiling one
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Roxy Has Finally Finished Moulting
She reminds me of marshmallows and coconut ice, but with blue food colouring instead.
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New Cage
We have skylarks, blackbirds, shining cuckoos, grey warblers and rosellas for our natural choir. The odd kookaburra chimes in too every now and then.
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Please This Does My Head In..
I'm really not seeing any opaline in this bird.
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Movie-paycheck
I always find it funny how whenever they have rats or mice in a movie, they make them squeak constantly (which they don't, they hardly ever make a noise) and they always make horses neigh in the wrong situations and/or all the time. Horses are also fairly quiet.
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Roxy Has Finally Finished Moulting
She is absolutely gorgeous.
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Mature Cere
My answer was based on other people's perceptions of what was asked and possibly others misconception of what a coloured cere means. As evident by some answers, various interpretations of the photo were posted Fair enough
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Please This Does My Head In..
GB, there is no need to do test breeding for genes that are already known and written about. The site that I sent you also tells you whether the genes are recessive, dominant or sex-linked or co-dominant. Once you know what a gene is you can use that to predict what your outcomes will be. The only time you need to test cross something is to find out its mode of inheritance and we already know the mode of inheritance for the most common budgie mutations like dominant pied and clearflight pied. The birds in your most recent post: Bird 1 is a dominant pied, cinnamon cobalt. Bird 2 is a dominant pied grey hen Bird 3 is a yellowface type 2 double factor dominant pied sky blue hen Bird 4 (the one with its back to us preening) is a grey, greywing spangle hen. The other one in the picture to its left is a recessive pied skyblue (it is too far away to tell if it is a spangle or grey wing instead)
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Mature Cere
I think Summer was asking the question just to check to make sure her bird was healthy and progressing normally.
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Blue Feet
GB, what I mean is that the gene that creates dominant pieds is not recessive. When I am talking about recessive and dominant genes, I am not talking about pieds at all. A recessive gene is a gene that will only ever show if there are two of them. Recessive genes are recessive to dominant genes. A dominant gene is a gene that will always show no matter what. Dominant genes in budgies are: Yellow base colour, Normal wing markings, Clearflight pieds, Dominant pieds, Dutch Pieds, Yellowface. Recessive genes in budgies are: Dilute, full body colour grey wing, grey wing, clearwing, anthracite, recessive pied (aka danish pied), saddleback, fallow and black face. Sexlinked genes (which are recessive genes on the X chromosome) in budgies are: Cinnamon, opaline, ino, Texas clearbody and slate. Codominant genes in budgies are: Spangle, dark factor, violet factor, grey factor. Thus getting back to the main point. Dominant pieds are named so because the gene works in a dominant way. A bird carrying a dominant pied gene will always show dominant pied. A recessive pied bird is named so because the gene acts recessively. A bird needs to have 2 recessive pied genes to show recessive pied. Thus in my statement where I said that it seems that recessive mutations seem to have pink feet, I did not mean dominant pieds, because a dominant pied is not a recessive gene, thus in my hypothesis Dominant pieds should have dark blue/grey feet. Clearflight pied is a dominant gene, so according to my hypothesis they should have grey/blue feet most of the time.
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Blue Feet
Dom pies are not recessive hence the name Dominant pied.
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Blue Feet
Thanks GB. I seems that pink feet seem to stick with the more recessive mutations.
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My Funny Pied
I love his green colouring by the way. He is so bright.
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Please This Does My Head In..
Here is an excellent site on mutations, that I'm sure you will absolutely love GB: Budgie Place To answer your question. Dominant pieds and clearflight pieds are different mutations and a bird that is both a dominant pied and a clearflight pied can occur.
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Parakeet Fluffing, Sleeping A Lot After Purchase
He does look a little ill doesn't he. Is he bleeding from a blood feather? If you are feeling game and he is bleeding constantly from a blood feather, you could take a pair of tweezers and pull out the affected feather yourself (specially seeing as there are no vets available at the moment). Apply pressure to the area with your fingers and clot the plucked area with cornflour or white pepper. If he has stopped bleeding or is okay in that aspect, do not worry about the blood feather (because that could just make him more stressed. Only pull a blood feather if it doesn't stop bleeding). Get a heat lamp or heater near him and put the temperature up to around 75F (24C) on one end of his cage. Put a blanket over the back and sides of his cage, so he feels a little safer (careful with the heater though). Provide him with some millet and water and follow what the vets said until you are able to get him to one. How is the other budgie is she okay?
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My Funny Pied
If a bird is carrying spangle, it will show up on any and all of its wing markings Those feathers aren't "black" per say, they are just unpied.
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Safe Woods...
Aspen is a hard wood that has no fumes and is recommended for wood shavings in pet cages because of the abscense of fumes.
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Do I Need To Wash The Traps
It didn't seem to bother our mice. Infact when they saw a dead mouse in the trap they cam up and ate it. It was horrible I would go and empty the traps to find little meaty skeletons sticking out on=f the trap with its head perfect. Sometimes only the head was left.
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Clueless Breeders
Yea, it is very hard to sell a large number of birds privately.
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Cosmo And Technology
How cute! He's a real sweety
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Two Sweet Budgies...
I agree with krosp, she looks quite different in the second picture. Her cere is a lot darker and her feathers are fuller. How long in between the photos? The fact that she isn't tame any more makes me think, that maybe (very unlikely) it isn't the same bird. Just speculating.
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I Should've Know Better
Sorry to hear this. It was just a freak accident unfortunately.
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Clueless Breeders
Breeders commonly send their culled stock to pet shops, because it is quick and easy to send them too.
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Should I Just Let Them Breed?
Well if she is going to lay, it would be a good idea to lay off the spinach as well. Spinach has oxalates in it which decreases the calcium in the bird's body. So feed the budgies, dandelion, carrot, corn etc instead. Do you have a fishtank in the same room as them, because the sound of running water also stimulates them to breed. Take the other 2 boys out of that room as the sound of other budgies singing also helps to stimulate them to breed. I would advise you get her a female companion next time, however some female budgies will continue to lay eggs without male budgies as well. Budgies don't make nests. They just "adjust" the area they want to lay in, by chewing the paper, moving wood shavings or doing nothing at all.
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An Injured Bird This Time
Good to hear she is home. She could have broken the leg anyway. By landing badly or something. You can still use wire, just be sure to bend it and position it in such a way as to present no threat.