Elly

The orginal question was the above and the answer to that is no because pet or wild birds can carry many different disease that can be transferred to your aviary and make your whole aviary sick. That is why we instruct on quarantine and really 30 days is not enough per most bird books and the zoos quarantine for even longer, and the avian vets will say 90 days is best. If we don't give that solid advice on this bird and say it is okay to just stick him in there and the whole flock of birds died then I know the original poster would be marching back here posting on this post saying thanks for the great advice Lets stay on topic and can you update us on how the duck is doing?

The lighter babies would be dilutes which mean both parents are carrying the dilute gene that is how you got the diluted babies, dilutes can have barely any marking on their wings. The last baby though I would say is a fullbody clearwing because of the intensity of the body color which is a greywing and clearwing mutation together and both of these can be split for dilute also. I can't see the parents very well but they both look like fullbody clearwing split to dilute (per the babies they produced) but that is based on not seeing the back of the wings of the parents.

A shot of the back of the wings would be good, the flights look grey and the cheek patches silver so I am going to go with a greywing grey green with the picture that I have right now .

Our heart talks first and then our head at times the best thing you can do for this duckling is follow the advice above and I am sure if you call they will give you updates, they will probably find a farm in the area that has ducks and intergrate him into the flock .

Good Luck Renee, look forward to the journals and how everything goes

glad everyone is okay.

The centipede This guy was lonely and so he decided life would be more fun if he had a pet. So he went to the pet store and told the owner that he wanted to buy an unusual pet. After some discussion he finally bought a talking centipede, (100 leg bug), which came in a little white box to use for his house. He took the box home, found a good location for the box, and decided he would start off by taking his new pet to the bar for a drink. So he asked the centipede in the box, 'Would you like to go to Frank's place with me and have a beer? But there was no answer from his new Pet. This bothered him a bit, but he waited a few minutes and then asked him again, 'How about going to the bar and having a drink with me?' But again there was no answer from his new friend and pet. So he waited a few minutes more, thinking about the situation. He decided to ask him one more time. This time putting his face up against the centipede's house and shouting, 'Hey, in there! Would you like to go to Frank's place and have a drink with me? A little voice came out of the box: 'I heard you the first time....... I'm putting my shoes on!'

Yesterday I was buying a 2 large bags of Purina dog chow at Walmart, for my dogs Winston, Chief, Gus, and Maximus. I was about to check out when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she think, that I had an elephant? Since I had little else to do, on impulse, I told her that no, I didn't have a dog, and that I was starting the Purina Diet again, although I probably shouldn't because I ended up in the hospital last time. On the bright side though, I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in the Intensive Care Ward with tubes coming out of every hole in my body and IV's in both arms. I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry and that the food is nutritionally complete so I was going to try it again. (I have to mention here that practically everyone in the line was enthralled with my story by now.) Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food had poisoned me. I told her no; I had stopped in the middle of the parking lot to lick my butt and a car hit me. I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack, he was laughing so hard! WAL-MART won't let me shop there anymore.

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Three dogs were sitting in a bar: a German Shepherd, an English Bulldog, and a Chihuahua. A good looking female mastiff walked up to them and said, "The one who can best use the words "liver" and "cheese" in a sentence can have me." The shepherd said, "I love liver and cheese." The mastiff said, "That's not good enough." The bulldog said, "I hate liver and cheese." "Not creative enough," said the mastiff. With that, the chihuahua jumped off the barstool and in his best Latin accent, said, "Liver alone, cheese mine."

Neville, thank you, like I said my head was a pounding and I totally forgot that all the hens would be ino's good thing we all make a good team to figure it all out.

I love the picture with your son and that last picture that is too funny, that is something you would see in a funny forwarded e-mail that circulates around the net too cute I am glad everything is working out and you son adores her she is so cute.

I'll go with the DF Dominant Pied. This means this chick must be a male, right?? Pieds are not sex-linked so you won't know unless the experts can tell on the cere. And this also means that I've now found out that my Albino Cock is Split Domiant Pied, right?? Not split he is a dominant pied the ino is just erasing the pied marks so I still don't know what dark factor the Albino cock (dad) is???? right Am I right assuming this chick will have no other body color??? All the feathers coming in on it's back and wings are white... will it's belly have color as it feathers up??? most likely I'm still confused a bit on this, but I think what you are saying is that you only need one Ino gene for it to be visual? A male budgie has 2 xx sex chromosomes and a female budgie only has 1 (xy) that can carry the ino gene so a male does need 2 ino genes to be visual and a female only needs 1 to visual this is different completely different then a non-sex linked gene like Spangle or Dominant pied. Is this only if it comes from the cock?? Sex-linked genes can come from both parents but only the male can not show a sex linked gene because he needs 2 to be visual a female will always be visual. So if you had 2 inos then you would have 100% inos. Like my Opaline, I only needed the cock to be Opaline and I got Opaline Hen chicks... and in this case I only needed the cock to be Ino to get Ino hen chicks. So does this work that way with all sex linked genes on cocks? Do I only need that one gene from the dad to get visual chicks of that particual gene. Yes but they will all be females I hope I got that right my head is starting to ache (not from this post just a headache coming on)

Sorry about that it was early, I go with Double Factor Pied then like I said above .

It is 2 different genes completely one gene is laying on the sex-linked gene and you are right a cock has to have 2 sex-linked genes to express this gene BUT a cock doesn't need to have 2 spangle genes to express the gene because it is not on the lay on the X chromosome like the INO gene does. You have non-sex linked genes and sex-linked genes only in sex-linked genes does the cock need to have both of those genes to express the gene. Then you have of course recessive and dominant genes these genes lay on the non-sex linked allele and the dominant will dominant the recessive gene (and then some of course co-dominant too like a Spangle and a Dominant Pied). Does that make more sense?

Welcome, you have a wonderful "family" , all gorgeous.

Not true Dave ino is a sex-linked gene and a dominant or recessive pied is a non-sex-linked so they lay on 2 different alleles and ino gene is only erasing the markings nothing more. The cock has too XX genes both INO yes but then there are the 2 Non-Sex Linked Allele that carry Dominant pied, recessive pied, spangle etc... (another example you can have a Ino Spangle ) So the cock can be an Albino Dominant Pied or even a Recessive Other examples there are Opaline Double Factor Dominant Pied or even a Recessive Opaline Pied these combinations are very real . Sex-linked and Non-Sex Linked genes can be combined the only thing the Ino Gene is doing is erasing all the markings of this bird no what he can carry . If he is a pied he could be either an Ino Dominant Pied (Double Factor himself) or an Ino Dominant Pied split to (another recessive gene). But that means that all the babies would be dominant pied either single or double factor. OR if this is a recessive pied baby he could be a Recessive he could be a Recessive himself or be split to Recessive Pied.

gorgeous pictures, I love the play stand that you have created for him those are the best

Personally I am going to go with a recessive pied are the eyes plum? Or double factor pied because the albino hen could be a dominant pied too but it is masked by the ino gene, so both parents giving 1 pied gene will result in a double factor pied and I am leaning this route because there are no pied marking on the body and double factors usually display little if no wing marking usually on the head as you see and around the shoulder area which may come in as the chicks feather up.

Taken By: Dean_NZ Congratulations Dean on your winning picture. If you can please give us a little more information about your picture and the baby budgie in it.

I absolutely love looking at your birds Pie, thanks for the update

Congrats

lovely pics and birds

If he is an only bird and a male you have a really good chance of getting him to talk, talk to him all the time there are certain words that they pick up really quick sweet baby hi who is the baby then they start to combine things together ... if you have a female she may talk too but males are more likely age doesn't make a difference if they are the only one they will tend to copy you even if they have been with other birds but if you add another bird into the mix later down the road the chance of him not talking any more is high.

The best success is when the 1st bird is tamed and then you add birds, even with a 30 day quarantine and working on taming it takes longer to really create a lasting bond with a budgie. I don't mean to be a party pooper but I think you will find he will become untamed quickly and he may not be as shy as the others but won't be as tamed as you may want. How tame are you looking for?