Elly

Beautiful, gorgeous, congratulations, WOW!!! You and your family are beautiful!! Congrats what an ultimate gift on such a special day of the year.

Well I am going to be the devils advocate and say we really don't know what happens do we? We only hope for the best. I am sure there are some that will keep them until they sell but there are others that don't.

Welcome

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Is her coloring on her breast even or are their splotches of yellow that is what it looks like to me on my computer green.

Looks female but as Kaz said if you used a flash it could have washed out the cere so I wold take another picture a close up without flash but in a natural light (but not too dark).

From what I can see without seeing the back of the bird HE looks like a recessive pied.

Welcome and yes we can help you once you post the pics From the other pics you posted on what sex he looks like a recessive pied but full front and back pics are best.

I agree, and you should think about submitting a picture of her in the Jan Budgie of the Month so cute

They are gorgeous!

Gorgeous and Dave you are a lucky man!! Still waiting for my budgie to arrive lol

I agree he is a Recessive Pied and a cutie at that. We have a great FAQ section for taming, nutrition and more so make sure you check it out. Don't forget to add a cute picture of him for Jan Budgie of the Month, the link can be found in the shoutbox where you can vote too for Budgie of the Year. Glad to have you aboard and welcome!!

Go to the FAQ's located on top of the site and you will see exactly what you need in there . There are excellent pics. under Member's Birds under Mutations and Sexing your Bird you can do a quick search and find that one .

please keep us updated on what the avian vet says

Glad you had a great time and you came home with some very beautiful birds.

Have a fun and safe Liv and give Kaz a big hug from me :rofl:

Personally I would not house them together but I would let them mingle together outside of their cages. This is my personal opinion. Any bird can act up when they are going through a molt or a hormonal stage. You have asked about putting them together but what I didn't see is the question on females or males, personally I would do males vs 2 females as in any species (including ours lol) females can tend to get bossy and persnickey (saying it nicely) and you don't want a larger female bossing the smaller bird around. Again my opinion. We have in our FAQ section a whole section on cages, e-bay is really a good place to go just make sure the seller has been in business for awhile, has a lot of sales with GOOD reviews. My cage is pictures in the FAQ and I got it for 99.00 it can house 6 budgies easily or 2 tiels where they have a good amount of room. Getting a younger tiel is a good idea but again make sure the sex (tiels can't always be visually sexed especially the lutino and pied varieties) but be careful the budgie is not bossy at first. 30 day quarantine is recommended 60 days the avian vets will tell you. If you have a good bond with Max already you won't loose too much of it if you continue to consistantly working on bonding and being with your birds. Tiels tame very easily as babies.

If you do a search you will find tons of topics on this it is such a common question. I guess it really should be added to the FAQ's too .

You ask how can I be part of Budgie of the Year? Every month we have a contest called Budgie of the Month, if you are the winner for that particular month your photo is automatically entered to be part of Budgie of the Year!! Click HERE to enter January contest today!! Will you be the first winner of the year 2010?? okay, so time to vote & everyone has until the last day of December (U.S. time EST). You can vote for more then 1 picture if you like. Good LUCK to all the contestants. If you have questions or comments please do not leave them here just PM me. Thank you!! Elly

It was a close vote but this cute picture WON!! Congratulations Naomi!!!

Whooo Libby and Bob CONGRATS!!! I know you were the most gorgeous bride

There is an excellent article in the FAQ section about Taming your Budgie, I suggest you read through it. It sounds like your budgie is biting out of fear and probably had a bad experience either at the pet store or with you.

There is no way it is a olive because of the parents both being blue based. . Gorgeous birds.

Agree there with the Opaline, I missed that one good eye, as for the GF gene and YF gene that I can't argue or agree because it confused me a bit on how to visually see it unless it is really yellow lol.

In her photo she looks like a Yellowface Type 2 Cinnamon Mauve which is creating more of a greyish color. If the mom is a Yellowface Ino (blue based bird) then yes 2 blue birds can not produce a green bird but the ino gene does mask the dark factors of if your bird is a mauve she would need 2 dark factors from both parents.