Kylie Chappell

I have a couple of photos around on the home computer, but here's one already on Photobucket of my poor Fluoro having a 'bad feather day'! Will try and get a few more when I get the chance to get online at home.

{I'm simply working on the odds of getting 4 grey babies from a pair a green/blue and grey green is rare but of cause it can happen I would have expected at least one green to appear. Matched to a a blue bird the chance of green is less giving the grey a better chance of appearing as it did in this nest.} That's what I thought, very slim chance, though. What about the possibility of a dominant grey? I've heard their not available in Australia, but can that come through in the grey-green, and is there the possibility that Jezza could be split for grey if the blue is dominant? And the 3 Spangle opaline chicks from the other nest. . . .all carrying Dad's mutation (of course) could any be split for Recessive pied (By The Way, would LOVE to pair Cheese and Lavendar. . .or Cobalt and Jerri. . . By the pics, I suppose you figured the Spangle opaline is my favourite mutation, the less black on the wings the better! Grandma reckons Topaz looks like a cloud. . . .

Yeah, it was late last night when I posted these. Going to go back and resize @ Photobucket . . then try and put them back in the post. Re: Stoney. What would be your guess as to his mutation? Lavendar I believe to be a violet. The picture doesn't do him justice - he is a real nice purple colour. And in the case of the babies, there was only one blue spangle male in the aviary at the time (Jezza), but also a green that I believe to be split for blue (Wriggles), as his mother was a cobalt opaline, and has thrown out a cobalt spangle opaline chick. this was the reason I thought cheese was YF blue.

okay, time to show some pics of my feathered family. . . This is Fallow. Not an original name, but the best I could think of at the time. Jezza - a sky blue and white spangle budgie named after as ex-Carlton AFL player, Alex Jesaulenko. Emerald - Again, not original, but was going through a time of naming via colour/gemstone. Cobalt - cobalt colour, dominant pied. Stoney - still not 100% sure of the mutation, perhaps some sort of mauve with dark factor, because as far as I know, the Slate mutation isn't available in Australia. He is a deep bluestone colour. Olive - She is actually a grey-green. Lavendar - one of my grandmother's first chicks a few years ago. Pretty sure he's a he, and a mauve recessive pied with almost symmetrical pied markings on both wings. Sunshine - Double factor spangle. Fluoro - one of my first budgies, and currently the oldest in the aviary. He is a light green spangle opaline. Wriggles - Fluoro's son, also a light green spangle opaline. Cheese - an adoptee, and a recessive pied that I believe to be a yellowface blue type II. Currently 'going out' with Wriggles, and together they are parents to Fuji, Wriglet and Moody Blue. Jerri - a sky blue cinnamon, who likes invading other hen's nests and so is confined to a cage during the breeding season. Squirt - a Type II Yellowface albino. Crazy bird who loves preening your eyebrows. . . . enough said. Male, I think. Rossi - normal grey. Another bird that likes preening your eyebrows. Topaz - he was given to me for free by a breeder as he never learned to fly, but he still thinks he can. He is a sky blue spangle opaline. Charlie - a grey-green budgie, and my husband's bird, taught by him. . . .enough said! okay, that's the adults - now for this year's chicks Youngest to oldest in this picture - Moody Blue (Cobalt), Wriglet (Light Green) and Fuji (Light Green). chicks from Cheese and Wriggles. All the chicks are spangle opaline. Mumbles and Snuggles - Mumbles is an opaline, and Snuggles a spangle opaline. Sprinter and Shadow - the youngest of the chicks. Sprinter is an opaline, and looks to be female, and Shadow has normal wing markings. Mumbles, Snuggles, Sprinter and Shadow all have the same mother (Olive) but because of the colony breeding situation, and the outcome of the colours/mutations of the chicks, it is a little hard to determine who the father/s are . . . As for piccies of the husband - might have to wait a little longer until I get them up on Photobucket, but jusy imagine what Hugh Jackman looks like in the X-Men movies . . .heaps of hair, muttonchop sideburns....

Greetings all, from cold and wet Melbourne! Just thought I would say Hi after joining, wanting to get back into talking about my budgies with those who share the same passion as I. I currently have 24 budgies, including 7 chicks from this year, and will post pics when I get a chance on the home computer. Oh, and I have a husband that currently looks like Wolverine . . . Talk to you all laterz, Kylie, Gary, and the Feathered Flock :oliveb::budgiedance::ausb::budgiedance::budgiedance::budgiedance::budgiedance: