Elly

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if you see brown it most likely is female, it looks female to me in the picture.

that is not a opaline but a yellow face 2 grey gorgeous :bluebudgie: I would be shocked to see grey in my area. I have seen opaline and greywings though.

OMG the foot one is way too cute Bea I was chuckling. Well I am glad Oz has someone that is not (coughs..) so self aborbed with his reflection and good looks (coughs Blinks LOVE YOU). :bluebudgie:

sounds like a yellow face 1 or 2 opaline grey :bluebudgie: check out the mutation PINNED link now that Bea did and click on opaline and see if there is one in there.

Oh welcome and we can't wait to see pics of your flock . That is what I did I lurked for a while and then finally introduced myself and after 2 years of being on this forum (almost 2) WOW is all I can say I continue to learn . Again welcome!

This is interesting and it could be a throw spin off? Hmmm

I don't think fallows are as rare as they used to be. The Easley Clearbody many of us have not even heard of and when you do a search it is very hard to find infomation about them. The Texas Clearbody's we have heard more of them, they are described more and are more popular even according to the article. (don't mean to argue just debate - maybe Nerwen when she stops in or even Daz could give their thoughts too). Yes a very lucky budgie indeed

looks more of a skyblue but it could be my screen

I know what was suggested way back is you put them on your finger and then give a light lift off your fingers to promote them to fly. I would do that with Pretty but once you get that going (Laughing out loud) it does make them more independent because then they realize they can fly around more. Though each individual bird is different that is what happened with mine

who knows but the Easley mutation being a rare mutation I don't think you could just pick it out of a shop or a breeders. Where did you get this budgies if I may ask? I would think you would find this mutation being rare more in exhibition bugies, at bird shows. Just trying to use my common sense I supposed .

or the splotches of green pied markings too I don't see that on Easley Clearbody

I am going to research the other one right now Here is what I found and MODS I have to use a link because I can't find it anywhere else on the site http://www.budgerigars.co.uk/rares/clbodies/kevin.html This mutation is sex-linked and recessive to the wild type, but has an unusual relationship to the Ino mutation to which it is dominant. Because of this many individuals are mating Clearbodies to Inos to increase their production of these birds. However this generates two types of Clearbody cocks, the pure bred (double factors) and the split inos (single factors). When paired together clearbodies breed like any other sex linked mutation. In the first case it is impossible to tell which are pure Clearbody cocks and in the second case only half the cocks are split Clearbody despite being bred from a visual Clearbody. Is this the other clearbody because it would still be the same visually? OR is this the other Clearbody? The present Easley Clearbody (referred to sometimes as Laced Clearbody) generally has jet black wing markings, flight feathers, tail feathers and mask spots because of the excess black melanin. Their cheek patches are a shade of grey/silver regardless of their body colour. The body colour also tends to have less suffusion as found with the Texas mutation. However, Tom Easley did say that the cheek patches of the original stock were pale violet. http://www.bestofbreeds.net/al-nasser/article8.htm Either way this bird still doesn't fit the description of the Clearbody because of the pied like marking on the front where it should be completely clear Bea I think we posted it around the same time (Laughing out loud)

poor Bobby

50% chance of spangles and 50% chance of normals Single factor grey then you would get 50% chance grey and 50% normal Double factor grey then you would get 100 grey factor Of course if Jasper is split any of his hens could be ino, opaline, cinammon and I would this you would have a chance of a hen being a lacewing since that is a combo of ino/cinammon genes. I think with those three combo you may have some interesting hens for sure .

is he clipped or flighted? You didn't mention

I am still going with Opaline with possible pied markings If you go to this post Bea put together you can click on the opaline mutation for comparison http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index....showtopic=14564 Kaz is right the wings should be a deep black colour on a yellow ground. The flight feathers, on the wing, should be light grey.

yep agree with Bea it is a hen out of breeding condition that is why it is a light blue with white nasal rings. if it was a male it would be a very dark blue with small or no nasal rings

how cute and Bobby's head is just darling it is SOO fluffy

1 bird Opaline Skyblue 2 bird Yellowface recessive pied the blue seems light so could be a skyblue. (as long as there are no iris rings developed)

If you breed the cinnamon green and the dominant pied yellow face 2 I assume you are speaking of. All the males she will have will be split to cinnamon you won't have any visual cinnamen's unless the male is split and gives the gene to his female off spring. All the chicks will be green unless the green bird is split for the blue gene. You need 2 blue genes to get blue chicks and if that is the case they will probably all have yellow faces 2 gene. You will get 50% normals and 50% chance of dominant pieds

1 link: which bird are you talking about? 2 link: Yellow Face 2 Dominant Pied 3 link: cinnamon green 4 link: most like a dominant pied but a full body shot of the bird is best to determine if there are other mutations invovled 5 link: opaline green not sure if it is the light are the marking black or brown?

Here are a couple references to see if the eggs are fertile and how to http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index....4266&hl=fertile AND http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index....topic=13646&hl=

1. A hen that is ready to breed should be over a year old and under 4 years. She should be in good physical condition (not under or over weight) and should have a dark chocolate brown cere. A cock in breeding condition will be in good physical condition, over 1 year old and have a deep blue cere (with the exception of those mutations in which males have a pink cere-albinos, lutinos, and recessive pieds). If either gender bird is moulting it would be wise to remove the nest box as moulting and raising chicks would take too much out of a budgie. http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/faqs/i...d=27&artlang=en 2. The eggs may or not be fertile 3. if they are not in breeding condition they probably will not mate so the male will not mount the female could lay infertile eggs or none at all. 4. It is okay your female is coming out of breeding condition but was in breeding condition when she mated so the eggs being fertile is very possible. If I answered anything wrong or if more clarification is needed I know another member will come on

What a rainbow of colors Shawna you have so many different one I love them . Does Precious still love you