budgies mate as part of recreational budgie sex...but it doesnt always lead to eggs unless they feel they have a place to raise a family

has faint iris rings and cere colour so could be 5-6 months ....and isnt a rainbow variety

Would like you all to welcome tasbreeder to the position of admin to help out around here ..... tasbreeder is very knowledgable and a show budgie breeder and will have a lot to give .....

budgie breeder or premium blend which you can get from city barn near you in malaga might be the go

Yes seems to be a male

Separated out of the other topic...please remember to make your own topics not in amongst someone elses

OLD topic Trefto and the original poster may no longer be around ....but your post is also relevant

Dad is no way a clearflight pied. He is a goldenface most likely SF gf cobalt and also appears to be greywing as already stated and opaline . mum could be hiding anything under her albino white coat of little surprises

 

Hi Martine

Im no expert but here goes.

 

Your cock bird looks to be Yellow face T2, Clear flight pied NO

Hen is ino

Chick is Yellowface T2, grey + Clearflight pied/ split to ino.

I am taking a guess but I think that the diluted nature of the chicks colour comes from the fact that the only thing colour wise that the hen has contributed is ino therefore NO additional genetics to offset the natural dilution of colour that occurs with the YF mutation. (this is a guess and cant back it up or dispel my little theory at this time)

All of my current YF chicks cary Df of violet + Sf of grey so my colours are at the other end of the scale to this chick.

food for thought

paulie

 

also I dont think full opaline as a visual trait but the cock does display an opalescent trait in the wings

 

 

the fact that the only thing colour wise that the hen has contributed is ino therefore NO additional genetics to offset the natural dilution of colour that occurs with the YF mutation. (this is a guess and cant back it up or dispel my little theory at this time)

 

 

an ino can hide anything so your statement isnt correct. . An ino hen we had breeding recently produced ALL GREY OPALINE DOMINANT PIEDS when paired with a blue split ino cock.....this proved that under her "little white coat of surprises " she was in fact a DF grey opaline DF dom pied.................so what an ino hen contributes can be anything under the sun .......because you cant see what she is carrying or masking

 

 

Baby appears to be a yf or gf blue dilute

Boy

LJ your dom pied must be a dom pied spangle ....you can only get a df spangle from TWO spangle parents

 

colony breeding or cabinet breeding ? post piks of the parents

 

 

"Incorrect.........as spangle is a dominant gene no budgie can be split spangle"

 

 

okay I'm confused KAZ abt why a bird cannot be split to spangle.

 

I have just had a nest fledge with

3 X light green spangle

2 x YF T1, Violet normal

 

Cock is OIlive Violet opaline / spangle?

Hen is Df Yf presenting as sky Normal /?

According to what you say here KAZ this is not possible

YET HERE IT IS.

I'm confused

The only thing I can think of is that cock may be masking Sp somehow

Ill start a new thread for this

 

 

I say again..............you cannot have spangle masked, hidden or split for. Its a DOMINANT gene ....one is either spangle or it isnt ...it can be carried. It can be hidden only in albino, lutino, yf albino, and df spangles ......

 

 

half the issues are mis identification of the parent birds, OR colony breeding, or hen retaining sperm form another mating

 

post piks of the parents

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That's very interesting. Since it's not a lutino, do you know what its parents are? They would both have to be spangles in order for it to be a DF spangle. The only other option is dark eyed clear. Unless maybe it has some markings coming in on it somewhere that I can't see in the photos.

 

The parents don't have to be both spangles. The male can be split spangle, as I get df spangles out of this combination.

Dominated Pied Cock + Spangle Hen = So I guess my cock bird is split spangle.

 

 

Incorrect.........as spangle is a dominant gene no budgie can be split spangle

 

 

 

This girl has a deformed beak. I picked up 5 budgies yesterday this girl was in a pair, I pointed it out to the breeder, he said it doesn't affect her & just gave her too me, she can eat well but I'm very sad for her, I read I can clip her beak to help, should I or should I put her down? She's all white the green is reflection from the avairy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

your girl has whats called scissorbeak...she would have hatched with this deformity .......her beak will continue to grow wrong as neither top of bottom beak works with each other in the usual way to shape it and keep it in trim....you will need to constantly trim it back for her to eat properly

definitely female

it wont stay on as the hole you have made is

too big ..........photo of what you have done will help with advice

Sorry Paulie I can't find were I read it and I know they were debating it on FB, all I can find is where it says they can be split for Australian YF. I'll keep looking. I must be going mad

 

 

 

 

a bird cant be split for aust yf as its a dominant gene....its either an ayf or it isnt ..cant be carried in a hidden form or split for

Nadene was correct he is a goldenface mauve opaline

recipe ? we have one in our food and nutrition section under recipes ....there's a seed bell recipe which you can use and the sticky part of the ingredient I believe is eggwhite

the chick wont lay on its side if the sponge hobble is pushed up over its knees and the spare sponge is cut away to reduce the weight of it....can you post a picture ? Make sure its just splayed legs and not a break up near the hip joint or rickets

Blue is a boy

Very nice

RIP is still around...by private messaging her you should get a response as notification will go to her email

Moving to correct forum

pair 1

i think its violet DF dominant pied as it is purplish or could be mauve with normal green

 

MAUVE dom pied to green normal....................green is dominant .............expect green normals and green pieds ............unless the green is split blue The green has scalyface so I wouldnt be breeding him at all till hes well and sorted out

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pair 2

i think they are both Light green DF dominant pieds

 

They are dark green not light green .........DF to Df dom pieds if they are df will give you df dom pieds

 

Pair 3

i think its light green opaline spangle with blue/grey opaline spangle

 

opaline spangles in green unless the green is split blue ......you have a 25% chance of a double factor spangle BUT the male looks sick so I would breed him at all if I was you

 

As for colours

 

pair 1, could be green normals and Opalines.

 

 

where do you get that from ?

you have a water dish directly under a perch ........ = poopy contaminated water

 

Re the log.....it isnt the best of budgie breeding homes and babies will end up falling out of it if there are any and you do need to be able to check and clean nests .......... so I wouldnt have the log in there but thats just me

 

any kind of nesting place force breeds budgie whether old enough or not and creates fights over possessions of it. If you have any budgies in there under 12 months they shouldnt have access to anywhere they can get the idea about laying eggs and raising a family .......

 

 

Nice aviary