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Probably a main consideration would be if the bird "on loan" is healthy and not carrying any illnesses that could effect your birds. With either the lutino hen or the green male you could get green offspring and green pieds.. You may get some blue as well if either bird is split for blue. With the lutino hen you could get some lutinos in the next generation from her male offsping.

Adorable babies.

What a feast.. Sandy is such a pretty color.

How cute.. I'm gonna have a look to see if I can find one of those toys .. bet mine would like it.

It is the same for both yellowface types I and II?

Beautiful birds. I love the white cinnamon pied. I don't think that leaving one alone to become lonely before breeding would be a good idea. Probably the best way to get started would be to learn as much as you possibly can.. and be sure that the potential parents are in tip top condition, healthy and being offered as nutritious a diet as possible. Pictures posted here can be no larger than 450 by 450 pixels. If you have editing software you can resize them before hand,

Since the mom is blue.. that means the recessive pied is split for blue. So with Sylvester she could have a possible 50% blue babies. I'm not exactly sure how the yellowface gene works.. but I think you could get yellowface blues as well.

Adorable! That's a lovely shade of blue.

Cute pictures.. You may just start a trend.. Hope you don't get green ears though.

Cute birds.. bit of a tough one. Many budgies have some hidden genes that you can't see.. so the only way to know for sure is to know what's in their family tree. I think that the recessive pied is a female. Dilute and recessive pied are both recessive.. so for either to show up in the offspring the other parent would need to be split for it - meaning that the pied would have to be split for dilute or the dilute would need to be split for recessive pied for either to show in the babies. Also, the recessive pied would need to be split for blue for any blue babies. With all that in mind.. based on what I can see in the pair it would be 100% normal green (split for blue, recessive pied and dilute).

I'm sorry to hear of this.. I hope that your bird will be okay. best wishes.

Nothing much to add.. I've been through it too.. Is he doing any better today. I'm sure he'll start to come around soon.

Poor girl that the most eligible "bachelors" are her relatives.

Cute little things. I still love Blondie. Last picture is so sweet such good parents.

They're very cute. That cage looks interesting .. do you have a full picture of it. Was it "homemade"?

Such Beautiful birds . I love Cazaly's colors.. but I thought she was an inside bird along with Fallow and Winkie.

I think you need to have at least one gray parent to get grey babies.

Blinks looks so small on your dad's shoulder.Great pictures.

So many beautiful birds. That picture of Porks is great. Love the albino.. Gerri? You've never bred her have you? Alfred is so adorable.

Assuming that I'm right .. and assuming that they don't have hidden genes.. that could show in their offspring. It would be 50% green dominant pied and 50% normal green. All babies would be split to blue and recessive pied. Green is dominant to blue, but if your hen was split to blue (like if one of her parents was blue) you could get some blue chicks. Also, if your cock was split to recessive pied that could show in the chicks. One thing I'm not too clear on :: Because the male is a dark shade of blue would that affect the shade of green of the chicks? Would they be darker green? Someone else can probably answer that.

The male looks like a cobalt blue dominant pied. The female looks like a green recessive pied. They're both beauties.

Beautiful birds

Yes. The babies would all be dilutes.. but without knowing if they were siblings you definately wouldn't want to. There is a strong possiblity that these birds are related. Could be clutchmates, even though one is blue and the other is green.

okay.. I was wrong about the pied.. I thought I saw patches of color on the green ones tummy in the first picture. Here's what a Harlequin/recessive pied looks like. They're very sweet looking.. and I guess that the store could have classed them as "rare" mutations.. but were misrepresented in calling them Harlequins.

They're really cute. I'm pretty sure they're not Harlequins -- Harlequin is another name for recessive pied.. and they have "spots" on their wings -- But they are very attractive colors. The blue one looks like a sky blue dilute. I'm not sure about the greenish one .. but maybe yellowface type 2 dilute pied.