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Thanks, Will try Daz Harlequinlover

I just bought a 9 section budgie breeding cabinet off ebay which is about 30+ years old and needs a good clean. If I decide to paint it, so it spruces it up and makes it all the same colour, what type of paint do I use? do I also use the pale blue (that show cages use) or white? I also just bought 3 single & 2 double breeding boxes, a holding box which can be divided in 2 and a hospital box which needs a new glass front. Yes I've been busy (Laughing out loud). I gather I would paint these other breeding and the holding cage the same colour too. Your assistance is greatly appreciated. Harlequinlover

Thanks Elly Harlequinlover

There are no dumb questions here. The recessive gene can produce smaller birds. But a dominant/recessive paired to a recessive (or split recessive bird) can produce a Dark Eye Clear, this bird is totally Yellow (green based) or white (blue based) with black eyes not red like a Ino. Yes but keep track of the cinnamon to know which birds are split for it. thanks Nerwen, okay a dark eyed clear either white or yellow. okay will have to get a book, can't remember what was said about the cinnamons (males would be splits I think and these males would produce female cinnamons, forget what the females would be from the first mating (was it normal?). Harlequinlover

okay I'm into recessive pieds and have some normals. On the weekend I bought: Adult Cocks: A normal green (good type and size to keep type and size) A normal grey (better and slightly bigger than the green) but so far has not produced any babies (so hints to try and improve his chances of being/becoming fertile are very welcome) Adult Hen: Olive Opalene dominant pied, spangle Young Hens: Sky blue opalene cinnamon Sky blue cinnamon Olive opalene cinnamon So my four budgies (grey recessive pied hen, blue recessive pied (was told cock but unsure as cere is brownish), yellow faced split recessive pied cock and my Blue (dark) split recessive pied cock) has increased to 10 birds. I was told not to breed the Olive Opalene Dominant Pied, Spangle hen to a recessive pied or an inferior male (was told , she's too good to be bred to an inferior male so I must be doing something right in selecting quality breeding stock ) so may use the new grey normal cock if I can get him to reproduce or the normal green. What happens if you breed a dominant pied to a recessive pied or a split recessive pied? sorry if that's a dumb question! Would these cinnamon hens be okay to breed to a recessive pied (if my unsure one is a cock)? Kind Regards, Harlequinlover

okay post office thinks the envelope may have got caught in their machine because it had canary rings in it and if stuck in the machine the person who got it out, may have cut it open and removed the rings (which they shouldn't have done). They agree the envelope was tampered with to take the rings out of it regardless of who did it and it doesn't appear to have been caused by their machine. Lesson learnt. Kind Regards, Harlequinlover

Thanks, The envelope wasn't damaged, torn or anything except for like a knife cut exactly along the fold from the bottom corner about 1/3 of the way directly up the side crease. I don't think machinery would do that but I could be wrong. Kind Regards, Harlequinlover

okay, So any breeders of quality yellow faced blue recessive pieds near Newcastle? Kind Regards, Harlequinlover

Just curious how you get your rings. Are they posted to you? if so How are they posted/packaged? I had some canary rings sent to me (enevelope arrived yesterday). I just paid for and supplied a prepaid standard envelope thinking that will be fine. Envelope arrived and all appeared fine (not ripped or anything) but was flat, opened it to find the card with the ring numbers but no rings. I also found a slit at the end of the envelope on the fold like it had been cut with a knife about 1/3 of the way up from the bottom corner. So how do you get you rings? and have any of you had this problem? I know the rings were canary but I will need some budgie ones hopefully in the near future. Kind Regards, Harlequinlover

Thanks for your help everyone, After re-reading the above I am probably best atm (if I can't locate a reasonable quality yellow faced blue recessive pied of either gender) to breed the blue recessive pied to the grey recessive pied to try and get blue recessive pied hens to breed to the yellow faced blue split recessive pied later on as the green series recessive pieds may not have the yellow faced gene. Kind Regards, Harlequinlover

okay this does now sound like your are talking about green series recessive pied birds. These are simply classed green recessive pied. No need to said yellow face or not since all green birds have a yellowface. Green can carry a yellowface gene same as they can carry the blue gene. This is my green recessive pied male (Poka) Nerwen, Thanks about the genetics. Yes that's the one so would it be quicker to add one of them to the mix as I hear finding a yellow faced blue recessive is not that easy (mentioned I was looking for a male to replace the one I no longer have (was the grey recessive pieds mate) to a breeder and was told good luck). Kind Regards, Harlequinlover

Hi, okay the yellow faced grey split recessive pied (one parent was a yellow faced blue and the other was a white faced grey unsure which was the recessive pied) and yes he will be waiting until he is older to breed. So I say has a 50% chance of passing the grey on and 50% chance of Blue (and 50% of each will have a yellow face). I also gather if bred to the grey recessive pied hen will have 50% recessive pieds and 50% splits. The white faced, blue recessive pied from memory had one green parent and since green is dominant over the blue this green shouldn't be in the equation with his breeding (he also is more an aqua kinda colour so I have been told shouldn't have the dark factor) and if bred to the white faced grey recessive pied hen will give me 100% recessive pieds (I assume all with white faces) but depending upon if the Hen is a single or double factor grey wil deterine if progeny are grey and blue or just grey. So from this won't get a yellow faced but could get white faced blue recessive pieds hens to breed to the yellow faced grey split recessive pied when he is older so I then get yellow faced blues amongst the babies. The White faced grey recessive hen I don't know the colour of her parents so could be either a single or double grey but I was told she is a blue series. By the yellow faced greens I was thinking of the yellow recessive pieds I often see (I gathered they were yellow faced greens as the yellow is really rich and the colour to me looked a green shade). I hope this info helps. Here are their pics Kind Regards, Harlequinlover

Hi everyone I'm new and joined to ask some questions. I had a Yellow faced (series 2 I think from what I've just recently read) blue recessive pied and would like to breed a replacement. I currently have a year old white faced grey recessive pied hen, a 6 month white faced blue recessive pied cock and a 3 month old yellow faced grey recessive pied split. If unable to find a yellow faced series 2 blue recessive pied to add into the breeding program, what colour should I get? and which one should I breed it to? eg. a) get a yellow faced green series 2 recessive pied hen and breed it to the white faced blue recessive pied cock I have. or b)wait for the young yellow faced grey recessive pied split cock to mature and breed it with the white faced grey recessive pied hen and hope they throw a yellow face blue recessive pied hen and then breed it to the white faced blue recessive pied cock. Kind Regards, Harlequinlover