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I'm looking for the list that basically tells you what section you should be showing your budgie in when you get to the show, the one where you work from the bottom to the top... I'm sure you show peoples know what I'm talking about

Interestingly I have been reading up about black genes in other bird species such as chooks and a common theme there is that sometime the new mutations can be a partially deleterious gene resulting in decreased immunity and making them susceptible to disease as a result.

I think that would be a bird that I would keep in the house as an indoor bird, I would be too scared to have it out in the aviary. Not ust in case something happened but I would worry about someone stealing it.

Being a skyblue you would need to pair him with a darker bird carrying violet as the chicks would need to be cobalt to be visual violets. A cobalt will give you about half cobalt chicks(and therefore potentialy half violets) or a mauve would give you all cobalt chicks.

Here's one of my boys, in this photo you see the reflection on the top of his cere.

Basically half your female chicks would be inos and half your male chicks would be inos, it's a good way to do it if you are chasing colours like cremino because it's the only way to get ino cocks, otherwise you will always have hens.

No, you would get approximately 1/4 normals cocks not split for ino, 1/4 ino cocks, 1/4 normal hens and 1/4 ino hens.

The cock is split for ino, a hen can't be split ino since if she had just one copy of it she would be an ino herself. The ino chicks will all be hens

So are they genetic then?

I have to wait often for my computer to process things ( I work on complex spatal analysis) so I check BBC in my 'down time'

Booga looks like a hen to me and is only a baby so I would be housing her seperatly to Bluey personally. Blue is a skyblue normal carrying violet, Terri is a lutino, booga is a green normal and snowy may be a lacewing by the sound of the speckles, more photos needed

I have two screens on my work computer so I have BBC on one and work on the other

I would spray the legs in that case

Here's my pet type boy

What sort of cages/cabinets are they? I use the bird mite spray and spray it around the base of all the cabinets, that seems to deter them.

I have a pet type similiar to that Kaz but he doesn't have proper black spangles so he has aqua blue ones instead I call him blondie :hap: I have found that a few of my show types that are too heavy and fluffy have trouble flying and spend a lto of time sitting down low in the aviary, I put walkways for them to climb up. You could try putting a branch down to the ground and seeing if she perks up once she can get up with the other birds.

If youi take them away it should result in her laying again straight away. If you don't want her to breed again let her sit on them until she gets bored.

Wow AV that was so helpful I'm just trying to work out if they are genetic and tend to be passed on to chick or whether they are as a result of damage to the skin on the budgie causing an excess of melanin, much the same way that damaged fish fins will go black while they are regrowing.

AV and I were talking to a bloke out our budgie club the other night who didn't quite understand what we were trying to do with the black budgie thing but he described the occasional black body feahters found on some birds as 'sport' feathers. He was pretty chatty so we didn't go into it further with him as we would have been there till midnight! Has nyone heard this term used before and know what it means?

To upload pics you need to open a photobucket account and upload them at the 640 x 400 size in the upload box then add the IMG link to the page when you post on the forum. If you want to know what colours they are post in the budgie mutations and genetics forum Erin

I still say boy for the bottom one.

I reckone that bottom one is a boy, I have a problem when trying to photograph boys as babies because the lights in the ceiling inside tend to reflect off the top of the cere making it look pale at the top. That looks like a reflection to me.

Looks right to me but I'm no good at inos and lacewings, etc

okay so can someone confirm for me that I have this right. If I put my opaline spangle HEN to a normal COCK who is NOT split for opaline then the chicks will be either spangle or normal and hens will not be carrying an opaline gene at all and cocks will be split for opaline, is that right? I want to breed my spangle opaline hen soon but I want to get rid of the opaline in the chicks so I would be best to hold on to hens from that pairing and cull cocks as they will carry the opaline as a hidden split?

Well if tthe egg hits the fan again let me know and we can always add them to my spangle girls clutch, atleast it will be easy t tell the chicks apart as I only get spangles , spangles and more spangles from this pair