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Sherbert is gorgous. Generally many people here can sex a baby by that age. I would say that's a girl as well, but from my experience from my budgies, I have two that started out looking like that but eventually turned out to be boys. who knows...

awww, they are all gorgeous!!! I like your second picture with the wing stretching so cute.

congrats on the success with the incubator. good luck with the chicks.

reason why I said its different bubs is because in the first pics you can clearly see the spangle tails marking with the middle two being clear and in the second picture you can't see that anymore, and the wing markings seems to be a bit more like normals rather than spangles. but again I think it's definitely cinnamon as compare to the one next to it's it's much lighter. not so black.

Ummm are you sure that's the same baby? because the first picture is definitely a spangle, but that second picture, it looks more like a normal marking to me. the second baby looks to be a cinnamon baby to me.

Hi Nerwen. It's been awhile. :dbb1:, but I've been busy... will get some new pics up soon since I've got some downtime coming up soon. May be it's just my monitor, but it looks cinnamon here... though on closer inspection, it looks more dark brown possible black but the light is making it darkbrown from a certain angles.. Bea has a point, but may be it is because it is a cinnamon?!?! hehe, which has diluted the colour?? even grey green that I've seen has brighter yellow than that one. Just a thought.. hehehe

hi there, nice to meet you.

Dont forget what Splat already pointed out... it's a cinnamon too!!! :ausb:

That's great Kaz... :ausb: I'm sorry to read about your fingers though... it must be pretty hard to do anything with only one hand... I can't wait to see the final results of the new birdroom!!

What a little cutie pie!! It's great when you get surprises isn't it.

yes that would means that there's a 50% chance that he's split for those mutations.

yeah Iwas just looking at your signature, and didn't see any recessive pied. hehe

if you swap one of them to a recessive pied, you'll get 75% recessive. :budgiedance:

you'll have 25% chance of getting a recessive pied. :budgiedance:

I'm wondering if the one you have alive still might be a carrier or a disease and is passing on to other birds it had come in contact with.

Aly, does your lacewing spangle has red eyes or black? If black eye (that's what my monitor is showing me) then it would be a cinnamon DF spangle. But I thought that DF spangle mask all other genes?!? may be it does have red eyes afterall!!

L (Learners) plate are used on the learners driver's car when out learning to drive. What a cutie pie.. I'd say a boy too.

Not all the babies are opaline. the first two babies aren't opaline, and I don't think the smallest one is either. third baby definitely, and forth baby looks to be opaline. (check the down feathers colour.. ) But Kaz is right though, for you to get opaline baby, the dad would have to be split for it.

They're looking really good.. in six days too.. not bad considering the condition before they came to you! good job Aly, and I know that you must be very please with the result so far. oh with the baby oil, which brand do you use??

I agree with sailorwolf, in the second picture, I 'clearly' sees iris ring. HOwever her eyes doesn't look 'black' but rather plum/red.. I would lean towards a lutino, but better picture of the eyes would help for sure.

Yep, Daddy is definitely an Opaline Spangle... Sooo all girls will be opaline, and all boys will be split to opaline. No percentages here, just possible mutations (Mutations are all possible in the shade of skyblue, cobalt, light green and dark green) Normals (cock only) Spangles (cock only) Dom pieds (cock only) Opalines (Hens only) dom pied Spangles (cock only) Opaline spangles (hens only) Opaline dom pieds (hens only) opaline dom pieds spangles (hens only) All green will be split to blues. All girls will be opaline, and all boys will be split for Opaline...

Just one thing about second hand aviary though, as great as they are as I scored myself an awesome second hand aviary from Paul, you just have to make sure you find out why they are selling the aviary to start off with. I would seriously think about an aviary that's up for sell because all the birds had died and they don't want to start again. you never know what killed it, and even so, so things that kills bird, stays in the environment for awhile (eg PBFD), even if you disinfect the aviary, it doenst kill off the virus that cause PBFD in birds, as they are no cure for it, and you seriously need to do alot of bleaching and testing to make sure that it's clean. If they are however just expending or downsizing, and they seems to have a healthy flock, then I see absolutely no reason why you wouldn't buy a second hand aviary. Good luck!!

by the budgies given name, do you mean it's mutations name? or it's given 'human' name (pet name)??

I don't give any of my budgies human baby food, but I do give those to my cockatoos and they love it. organic is perfect. Not sure about additives. I didn't think baby food has additives in them at all? I Thought they were just heat sealed. that's what I was told anyway, and the ones I get I check the ingredient list on the bottle and it usually only list those of the vegies or fruits mentioned in the name. .

yes split to blue means the genes is hidden from the dominant gene. and no sorry, if she's not split to blue, it means that all babies will be green. Because blue is a recessive gene, it means that you need both parents to have the recessive gene to pass on to the babies, as you need double factor of the recessive gene (one from mom and one from dad) for it to show in babies.