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In my excitement I've jumped the gun...The first baby is albino! I forgot about the eyes...not having seen them before today left me believing the wrong thing. She has red eyes so defintitely no doubting what she is. The second baby has dark eyes though and white down again...but seeing as I stuffed up the last one I'm not saying anything now. I think one more egg to go. As I think the other 2 are infertile. But we'll see.

Well, baby is still going well. :hap: Now I've been doing a bit of reading and according to what I've read this baby is opaline due to having white down. Very exciting, so dad is masking or split opaline. I wasn't expecting this and I'm so excited as opaline is one of my fave mutations along with spangle and spangle opalines being my all time fave. I think this also means that baby is a girl as well. Can't wait to see what else I'll get. Budgie breeding is so addictive.

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Hi and welcome, can't wait for photos.

Mocha and Casper's first baby arrived yesterday afternoon. Very lively and well fed. At least 2 of the other eggs were showing fertile, but we'll wait and see.

Thank you Libby, that is interesting. I currently have him paired with a recessive pied hen and they have 5 eggs so hopefully it will result in recessive babies to give the true story.

Hi, I remember reading about someone having a lutino without iris rings, but I can't find the topic. I never realised until I read that topic that inos are meant to have iris rings. Since reading that topic, I don't think my albino Casper has iris rings. He definitely has red eyes, I've double checked and then double checked again just to make sure. My question is I suppose, is he albino or not? And why would he not have them if he's actually meant to? Thanks PS I'm sorry that I couldn't find the other topic so could hopefully get my answers from there.

Fantastic photos...especially the ones in flight.

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Excellent picture...congrats Neville.

Hi, I just bought this new budgie. I'm pretty sure he's skyblue cinnamon. I've never seen a cinnamon with the mixture of light and dark markings like he has, so would this pretty much be a normal thing? If so, why are the markings like that and what does it mean? And is he a he? The photos were taken without flash and they show white rings around the nostril but there is a definite blue tinge to his cere. I'm not too sure about his age though, possibly 3-6 months as his iris rings are visible. Thanks

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Very pretty little babies...really gorgeous pastel colouring. :happy-dancing:

I just candled the eggs again in the hope that I will see what others see...and yay I did. So far 2 fertile eggs out of 5...the others being too early to see anything I assume. It was so exciting, I've never seen that before...little red veins and what was obviously the tiny foetus. The kids were amazed to see it too! Now, I know it's basically 18 days from when she begins incubating, but how do I know when she actually starts incubating as she has pretty much stayed in the box from day 1 of laying? Only coming out very briefly to mate and eat and not staying out very long at all. Anyway, can't wait, it's so exciting. :happy-dancing:

Hi and welcome, very cute babies. I think both your budgies might be dom pied and it looks like you might have a couple of double factor dom pied babies there also. But I'm still learning myself so I could be wrong.

Casper and Mocha's 5th egg arrived late yesterday afternoon. I'm hoping she'll stop laying now as I don't want her to have too many eggs as both are first time parents and I want them to have an easy first time go of this. But I don't have any control over that so I'll just hope that this is her limit as I don't have any foster parents available. I did put another pair down when I put these two down but I've had no movement from that pair yet. Here's hoping that all goes well. :thumbs_up:

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Four eggs now. I tried candling but I can't tell anything from looking at them. :hap: They all look the same, I can see a dark patch but no veins. So I give up and I'm just gonna have to wait and be surprised.

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He's definitely albino...unfortunately the photo is just not showing the red eyes. :rip:

Egg No. 3 arrived today. All is looking good. Am going to try candling for the first time in a couple of days to see if I can learn something new. :rip:

Great setup you have there. :rofl: Good luck in your breeding.