Joey

Should get another egg tommorow, but she has started to sit on it. I have seen her in total for about 2 hours today.

hnm...I would put the Lutino male with the Cobalt Opaline hen you would get some nice offspring from that so Lutino with #5. Father: Lutino cock Mother: Cobalt Opaline hen Male Offspring: Light Green Normals split to Opaline, Lutino & Blue Female Offspring: Lutino split to blue Your males would be great breeding birds! Opaline & lutino are already sex linked so you could pair that bird to anything and get Opalines and Lutinos. See you would even get lutino females from this one! I think Ruse and # 3 would be a nice pair. They would just look nice (Laughing out loud) I don't know what she is though Im bad with Dilutes, Greywings and Clearwings have no idea about them but wouldn't they look nice together a Bright colored with a soft colored. Ruse looks like a Resseive Pied Cobalt. So unless # 3 is split to Resseive Pied you won't get any but I know all babies would be blue.

I named them Banjo & Rita Thanks anyways though

Pictures would help how many dark factors on the blue and what is your male (what shade of grey) also your grey is it Opaline or Normal?

Shes very nice I would also say Light Grey Opaline Spangle....I see your aviary! Can we see a picture of it?

Im not sure...if Spangle is Dominant than you would get spangles yes (of both) yeah and if he is split to Opaline yould have Visual and some Split babies {half the babies should be Opaline if he is split to it} and you would get them in both Mauve and Cobalt.

I don't understand what you meen liek a mutation that looks liek Cinnamon or do you want us to explain the Cinnamon gene?

First egg has arrived but they aren't incubating yet. 01/14/07

Its not going to Darken anything...you would get the same ones as Dad (mauve) and the same as mom (cobalt). Dark factors are very complicated but I think you would need a Grey or Violet a Grey is used for Darkening colors...

Well if you could get a better picture of the first female with the back wings and tail...maybe I don't really know what she is. First Pair: Mother: Cinnamon Olive hen (guess) Father: Sky Blue Dominant Pied cock Male Offspring - Dark Green Normals & Dark Green Dominant Pieds split to Cinnamon Female Offspring - Dark Green Normals & Dark Green Dominant Pieds NOTE If your female is split to Blue you would also get Cobalts....if your male is split to Cinnamon you would also get Cinnamons (in normals and in Dominant pieds) Second Pair: Mother: Light Green Normal hen Father: Cobalt Normal cock cock Male Offspring - Light Green Normals split to Blue Female Offspring - Light Green Normals split to blue NOTE (If your female was split for blue you would also get cobalts) Hope this helps tell me a little about thier splits? If you know...

Your male looks like a Yellow Faced Type 2 Mauve Spangle (beautiful) I love spangles and he is English or part English so that even makes him more favorable! :(Laughing out loud): okay so: Yellow Faced Type 2 Mauve Spangle Cock Cobalt Opaline Hen I'm just learning so this is what I know or have learned....Yellow Face is dominant to Blue so you would get Yellow Faced babies for sure. Opaline is sex linked. You would't get Opaline visual babies unless your male is split for Opaline. Spangle is Dominant I think...don't know much about spangle but it could also be resscivce I would like to know I would myself. Although, I had a pair of Yellow Faced Type 2 Sky Blue Normal and a Lutino and they threw Spangles babies in every clutch they had. Can you find out about your male splits? You would have: Father: Yellow Faced Type 2 Mauve Spangle Cock Mother: Cobalt Opaline Hen Male Offspring - Mauve & Cobalt Yellow Faced males split to Opaline(not sure on the spangle could someone clarify me on this?) Female Offspring - Mauve & Cobalt Yellow Faced females (again spangle I don't know I think its Dominant) Sorry this dosen't help alot but...will hold you until somone clarifies us on the spangle mutation....

Yes! That looks like the same marking on the back of my own known!

Well...in Southern Ontario Canada they sell CRUSHED HEMP SEED in bulk... very expensive but it is used in some foods.

I wasn't sure to post this here or in food and nutrition so I posted in both. When in breeding season I add crushed hemp seed to their seed diet (regular budgie mix) every other day I scatter it on top of their seed dishes only a pinch, is this good? I see other breeders do it but what is the purpose. I also know that it is full of nutrisiuos oils...I see it in egg food all the time as well. Anyone else do this?

Wow beautiful! What is that 4th one on the perch that prupleish colored pied yellow face in the 4th picture down. First in Bright and Blaer's.

I had one as well...he died though looked just like that!

well I had another thread but I decided to put it here now that I know what they are. They are doing good but the female isn't letting him mate with her, from what I have seen. He mated her side this morning and she threw him off. Not good but eventually I think she will raise her tail. They are spending time in the nest box so eggs should be here soon hopefully fertile I hope (Laughing out loud) Here they are, see she is in the nest looking out because of the flash (Laughing out loud)!: Here is the male: You guys...Im running out of names (Laughing out loud) can some one give me a few names for them

Here are some clearer pictures of her:

So even the slightest bit of flecking will do it?

I shoudln't be talking here :(Laughing out loud): because I am just ATTEMPTING to start off but I think you did a good job pairing them! The second pair: The light green cock looks like he has a bigger and nicer head that the hen but a shorter mask while the Cinnamon hen has a long nice mask. They both have nice big throat spots so thats all good

One of my cockatiels has slightly* crossed wings but I wasn't planning on showing her anyways...maybe her offspring down the road. I am breeding her to an EXCELLENT male though!

I am just starting out in show budgies as welll and I learned that when you start out. Do not even worry about the color you want to build a stud of birds. Head Qaulity, Size feather condition...etc. Is the most imporntant thing than you could start worrying about color.

You guys will soon know that I love Blue Spangles and Albinos and I am CRAZY for Show Budgies!

He is a nice light green normal....

Yes I have been reasearching her haed is small..and her mask is short I know that. I read that you shouldn't breed Grey to a Grey it would deacrease the size of the bird and the Opaline brings in the big throat spots and nicely sized face. I have to watch out for flecking though right? What about a LIGHT GREEN OPALINE?