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sooooo he's a single factor dom pied, and yet looks like a double factor.. any thoughts? oh wait, remind me, is goliath a dom pied or not? am I forgetting something?

geeze you keep getting surprises with these two huh... I like those white recessives. they are simply adorable!!

hot baby arriving on hot day!! looks like a big jellybean!! congrats on your first new show baby!

awww, your little cinnamon girl is simply gorgeous!!!

Feathers... the creamino Spesh (or Bonus) is a boy. He's lucky to be going home with you. Lovey, yes I think a few birds did find new home. although I am sure Jacqui has her sight set on little BIG Vinnie! What a HUGE baby!!! I had a great time. it was stinking hot yesterday... at 11pm lastnight, it was still up around 37C,.. not nice at all. It'll be the same again today... I can feel the heat starting right about now.

I think it's a girl.

no problems.

Sweet potatoes are not actually in the same family as the 'normal' potatoes.

Oh, that's fair enough. I thought that Dutch pied was like recessive pied only with iris rings..

not sure if my budgies would eat them, but my cockatoos get the sweet potatoes skin and all, but He peels them off himself to get to the flash. I think he still gets the occasional skin bits... but it is safe for them.

here are the percentage of getting DEC... I sat down and worked it all out.... SF or DF Clearflight x Recessive - 0% SF or DF Clearflight x Normal Split recessive - 0% SF Clearflight split recessive x recessive - 25% DEC SF Clearflight Split recessive x Normal split recessive - 12.50% DEC DF Clearflight split recessive x recessive - 50% DEC DF Clearflight split recessive x Normal split recessive - 25% DEC SF Clearflight split recessive x SF Clearflight split recessive - 18.75% DEC SF Clearflight split recessive x DF Clearflight split recessive - 25% DEC DF Clearflight split recessive x DF Clearflight split recessive - 25% DEC DEC (SF Clearflight gene) x SF Clearflight - 0% DEC DEC (SF Clearflight gene) x recessive - 50% DEC DEC (SF Clearflight gene) x Normal split Recessive - 25% DEC DEC (DF Clearflight gene) x Normal Split Recessive - 50% DEC (SF clearflight gene) DEC (DF Clearflight gene) x SF Clearflight split recessive - 37.50% DEC DEC (SF clear flight gene) x DF Clearflight split recessive - 50% DEC DEC (SF Clearflight gene) x DEC (SF Clearflight gene) - 75% DEC DEC (SF Clearflight gene) x DEC (DF Clearflight gene) - 100% DEC DEC (DF Clearflight gene) x DEC (DF Clearflight gene) - 100% DEC

Is Dutch pied the same as continental clearflight pied? I thought they were different. IF the dutch pieds are not the same as continental clearflight pied, then DEC isn't a composite of recessive and dutch pied, but rather a recessive and a continental clearflight pied.

:ausb: hehe. looks like my girl!!

(Laughing out loud)... love it!! too funny.

I thought to actually get a DEC, you need both gene to occur in the same bird.. therefore a clearflight pied and also a recessive.... Ummmm wouldn't that makes DEC have the genes... Clearflight (CF)/Recessive ®??? that's why they are the way they are? so if you put CF/R x CF/R together you'd get... CF/CF, CF/R, R/CF, R/R... Unless the DEC genes actually works differently....

Aaawwww she's gorgeous!!! Just a thing about taking branches off the side of the road... make sure it's off a road that aren't busy most the time... as the exhaust sometimes will 'stick' to the leaves...

basically people chooses to breed different mutations to get a desired mutation. Bubbles, one of the mod here, she lets her birds (not her show birds but the pet size budgies) pair up themselves and let them breed. The most important thing with breeding is that you have to do a whole lot of research, ask a whole lot of questions, and make sure you're not breeding relations (inbreeding). makes sure you're prepared for all the things that might wrong.

Hi Ram, Beth is right, she's a Yellowface cobalt.. although I have to also add that it's a yellowface type 1 cobalt since there doesn't seems to be any sort of bleeding into the body colour. I'm assuming the 'cinnamon' looking feathers are due to the sunlight, since the throat spots look black in the photos. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Are the wings feathers black or brownish cinnamonish?? Sorry to hear about Paul. Peter is one very gorgeous looking bird!! Edit.. with your other question regarding what mutation birds she were bred from, that's a hard one... hehe.. not hard as in I don't know, but hard because it is possible with all sorts of birds!! She could have been bred from a hidden gene... basically two green birds can produced a yellowface blue bird if they are split for the mutations. :budgiedance:

if you cross two DEC.. you'll get... 50% DEC, 25% recessive, and 25% clearflight pied.

Done.. He is in a bigger cage!!

I would think that greywings coupled together with the dom pied or the clearflight genes would give the clearflight feathers in the greywings. they are possible to occur together in the same bird. May be he doesn't look as grey on the wings due to the opaline gene, you know it's like the body colour from the opaline is 'masking' the grey. I think the pastely colour may have come from the 'normal' greywing genes (not the full bodied greywing). I don't know, that's the only sense I can of it all. may be someone else can figure it out!! (Laughing out loud)

(Laughing out loud)... hehe... yeah I gotta remember to watch the blood pressure... hehehe.. .

THANK YOU KAZ!! :ausb: Oh gosh... geeze... now I gotta go tell Daniel!! (Laughing out loud)...

Thanks Feathers... :hap: Karen.. it doesn't drive me crazy, but boy do I get tired by just watching him going back and forth!! he's does stop every so often though to pick up a seed or two to munch on... hehe... :ausb:

yeah 'little' Vinnie has always been a pretty big bub!! :ausb: