Elly

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Poor Blinks what a frustrated male budgie , cute videos!

Echo and those blue feet I LOVE blue feet Jangles is so gorgeous one of my favorites. WOW have the babies grown. Which one was the one you got from Daz? (the egg) or did you sell that baby? Tootie is gorgeous, I love that pale yellow or is it green? Is she a Texas Clearbody? Opaline? Or what?

those babies look bigger then her (Laughing out loud) - I can't wait to see them feathered

I love those pieds in the nesting box, they are all so sweet.

I really like the last picture that is super cute

Yes she is a Clearflight Dominant Pied, Opaline, Mauve she is gorgeous

Ester looks like a dominant pied maybe a clearflight? if her flights are white with no markings and she also looks opaline and yep she is a mauve.

I did the last 2 pairs I didn't do the first as Hurdy did sorry about that. A little bit about slate too it is a sex-linked gene on the x chromosome and it is considered a added factor in coloring just like grey and violet. Slate can be present in a green budgie too but it only darkens the green. True slate is visible in a white/blue based budgie. How dark the slate in a budgie is determined by how many dark factors the bird carries. Here is more information http://www.budgieplace.com/c_slate.html I find this information important because it is a newer color members can understand how it all works so they can learn to work it out to :budgiedance:

well I know nothing about if he is a great show bird but he certainly is a handsome boy :budgiedance:. Congrat Booms!

very sweet let us know what happens

You can also try and ring a few avian shops or those that sell birds and clip them. You could go and see what the clips look like. They may be less expensive. I am here in the US but that doesn't sound pricy for just a clip and yes make sure both sides are clipped it is much safer for your feathered friend.

congrats Kaz :budgiedance:

Beautiful Birds :budgiedance: I will put in order that you have for names. 1. Manny 2. Kenya 3. Lacey 4. Henry

you are doing great Feathers. Pretty my recessive pied (the blue and mostly white on in my siggy) was from a pet shop just about 3-4 months. He did hand tame. One word of advice on pet shop budgie make sure you have a good relationship with them before you get another one. You may say I only want 1 (Laughing out loud) but as we have found they are very addictive so you may decide on a buddy. Key is to ensure this one is first hand tamed and it could take months. Pretty started talking and really wanted to be around me after 9 months of having him. You may say wow that is long but not really considering how long they live with you :budgiedance:. So it is worth it.

Paul if you are wanting more albinos the only way you would acheive that is to know if either one was split for the albino. With either cock if they are not split you are going to get blues and then any recessive genes that both carry that may come together. Probably NOT the answer you were looking for :budgiedance:. I am not good with ratios but I can tell you outcomes. All birds will be green unless they are both split to blue. To have any fallow babies the female will need to be split all your females will be opaline and males will all be normal split to opaline Spangles you will get 50% spangle and 50% normals Is this another bird you are thinking of to match her with? light grey yellow face opaline spangle (it sounds like you are saying he is split to that but he couldn't be so checking on that so I am not confused) With greys they can be single or double factors. SF grey with the hen would produce 50% grey factor and 50% normal. Now if the bird is green it would be a grey green if the bird is blue based (but only if both are split for blue) the bird would be grey. DF grey you would have 100 Grey factor again with the green/and or blue bird as explained above. Yellow face is dominant so your babies will most likely be YF. Again with the opaline the females will be opaline the males split to opaline. Spangle would be 50% spangle and 50% normals. I hope that is what you were looking for.

Awe he is growing up so fast

Awe welcome to our boards your flock is super cute. I believe Pteri is a boy. I have a recessive pied and his cere looks very similar a nice smooth and deep pink. We look forward to getting to met you and your flock. Congrats on the babies.

they are beautiful, since the older ones were plucked as mentioned above that would be concern on the younger one?

Pretty flirts with the plastic balls and Merlin enjoys the cage bars

Yes Karen I say that to myself everytime I look in the mirror just joking

WOW she is going to be a BUSY BUSY mommy

Oh my gosh look how big and they are right Donut looks like he ate a couple too many donuts, perfect name for him

Gotcha that is why I asked because he does not look like an opaline but I was curious about the blue through the wings

Oh my gosh what a handsome fellow he has turned out to be.