Elly

do let us know how he does when you decrease the daylight hours and he starts to come out of his molt

congrats, and what a gorgeous head shot with the first picture you should enter this picture in our Competition Section, Under Budgie of the Month for January, Welcome.

wonderful news, congrats.

They are gorgeous They are all dominant pieds and the one in the middle is also an opaline

Question... the Albino and Lutino chicks you list a color (cobalt, green, etc...) I thought being ino and lut color didn't exist anymore... or do you note the color for future breeding? Or do you say Albino masking cobalt? How do you say it? The ino color erases the blue or the green leaving the base color of the budgie either white or yellow, a ino budgie is always a blue/white based and an lutino is always a yellow/green based the ino gene will mask dark factors - example no dark factors skyblue, 1 - cobalt and 2 - mauve, knowing the parents and how many dark factors they have you can make an educated guess if the chick is carrying none, 1 or 2 dark factors. I understand how the ino lut leave just the base color, i just didn't know that you still stated a color, but I can understand why... it gives you a history of what this ino will produce when it comes to the colors of it's chicks in the futrue, right? So how would you say the name of this chick, Ino masking Cobalt split Greywing/Clearwing Hen??? you can do the table and do predications just like any other non-sex mutation so you have a Sky blue x a Mauve that is going to give you all Cobalt chicks Also you stated that the offspring from the greywing are split greywing or clearwing, where does the clearwing fall into play? Full body Greywings are a combination of Clearwing & Greywing So again I have to ask how do you say the name?... The cock would be called a Sky Blue Goldenface (sf) Greywing Clearwing split Ino and Recessive ??? No he would be a Skyblue Goldenface Full Body Clearwing (he is not split to it he is it) split to Ino & Recessive Pied Last one, bub #4 from the second pair, the normal, you say will be split for Opaline, if I understand right a hen can't be split for opaline so this must be a cock? Am I right on this? YES, since the female is an opaline the male off spring are split for opaline But I thought the normals in this case could be male or female... what is it that indicates a male split for opaline instead of just a normal hen? What should I be looking for that I'm missing? Non-Opaline female x Opaline male Split your off spring will be 1/2 males split for opaline and 1/2 normals, 1/2 the females are opaline, 1/2 females are non-opaline, non opaline not having the opaline gene doesn't mean they are normals they could be a different mutation, remember mutations can be combined. ** And just a note, you can't see it in the picture, but the Greywing is also split recessive. He has a small yellow dot on the back of his head** Yes

Yellowface Type 2 is dominant you will not get any Type 1. To get Type 1 you need to have Type 1 birds.

Good question JB, I though you can but it is a fault or maybe not at all, good question to ask in the show area.

glad he is okay, silly bird

That picture it is very difficult to see the face and body personally but very commonly it is say wait for the 1st molt and see how the yellowface bleeds in to see if it is a 1 or 2, very interesting pie I didn't know that but it makes sense since I have read that YF2 is a fault in the show area.

I will just leave it Glynn, I think it is okay . Merry Christmas

What a doll

Liv, I can't talk on how you are doin as I don't know what to look for in specifics of making a good breeding box. To me it looks wonderful

okay we have 2 answers yes to 2 and no to 1?? I agree with Dave he is a YellowFace 2 you can see the bleed going from the mask into the chest area and I would say he is a skyblue and the yellow bleed is turing the color "seafoam" color.

How is Fitz doing?

Welcome

Personally, and this is me of course, I would not be playing around and seeing what it could be especially if the symptoms have not cleared up in 2 days I would be getting the bird to an avian vet to do a poop smear to make sure there is not more to this.

This is normal and Merlin goest through this and it will pass and all you can do is ignore it and don't react. Do cover him extra for 1-2 hours a day this helps snap them out of the behavior quicker. Don't worry he will be back to normal in a week or 2 .

No I don't and I always forget how to convert you know us American's we don't do metrics unless we have too .

hope all is well with the hen, keep us updated.

You can google for budgie sounds, I know of a website that has them personally, or you can even play budgie video's on U Tube.

I agree with this statement, I said the chick was a Clearflight but didn't work out why until you said what the hen could be.

Pretty soon...how exciting

what do his dropping look like on the lining that you use for the cage? Are they runny? What color? This is a good way to see if your bird is not only eating but drinking too. Personally, runny poo is never good and I believe he should be seen by an avian vet.