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What makes you think fallow? I thought fallow had a patch across the rump.

There were both at the one I went to. You will probably have to wade through a million finches though There was even a crested breeder at the one I went to! He had some of his birds on display and I am on his list for a couple from his coming clutches. $40 for a crested, less for a crest bred.

.....The budgies cost me $10 each, $30 for a nice whiteface tiel and $15 for a red rump. If I had lots of money and more space I would have taken a HR baby king parrot for $150, they were gorgeous!

If it is anything like the one I went to recently then it will be fairly chaotic! You will probably need to take a travel box of some sort or buy one there as many sales don't allow open wire cages. Best bet would be to get there early as it was very much like the boxing day sale at Myers If you have time then buy any you desperately want and then hang around to the end as often the last birds walk out the door VERY cheap.

I think he is cinnamon so when he is a bit older Ill put him with my other cinnamon YF hen.

That was my figuring SW. Essentially the two females are almost completely yellow bled through other than in a few spots where their blue markings are, around the vent and the rump mainly so I would need to pair them with a bird that will reduce the amount of yellow. My GF violet male would have been perfect for this as he has not much bleeding at all but as he is a normal marked and the hens ar recessive pieds I won't get any pied babies that way. So unless someone offers up a better suggestion I think the best bet will be to pair them with pied males. The males aren't GF but since I believe that is dominant it shouldn't matter whether they have this trait.

okay, well I've one some reading and this is where I am at: The two females I have that I want to breed from are 1: Goldenface type 2 cobalt recessive pied spangle 2: Goldenface type 2 cobalt recessive pied opaline I had thought to breed one of them to my Goldenface type 1 cobalt/violet but since they are recessive I gather this would not really give me the results I am looking for. So maybe a better bet would be a pied male. I have a few regular pied(as in not yellow/golden face) but I'll have to look in the daylight to see which are males. Since goldenface is dominant would I be correct in assuming that I will get some sort of goldenface babies out of this pairing? So can anyone tell me if there are any other varieties (eg. opaline) that I can breed to a recessive pied and still get pied babies or does it have to be a pied or split pied parent?

:Sigh:...that's what I'm doing, it's just the wrong ones going into condition

My birds all get an excellent diet and some are currently in breeding condition but of course none of the one's I want to breed are Are there any tricks to get them moving?

Hmm, well essentially the female is YF2 pied and the male is YF1 I guess since there is only marginal colour bleeding on the neck feathers. I want YF1 pied babies

I have two recessive pied females. Since the colour on their bellies, etc is blue but the rest of them is yellow I am guessing they are GF2 recessive pied opalines I would like to stop the yellow bleeding onto the body colours so much so that they are essentially a yellow face with a white and blue pied body colour. I have a lovely GF male that isn't strongly bleeding into the body colour and who is also violet. The pied females are cobalt blue. Is this a possibly suitable match for this outcome?

That's sad Dave Wire is a good idea, I fill all mine with gravel or sand and keep the water level below the level of the gravel. That way if one doesn't get in they won't drown.

After spotting a lovely little violet girl today at the local shop I tried to console myslef by taking photos of a couple of birds I already have in violet, particularly one very similiar to the shop bird. However when I try to take a photo, with or without the flash the violet doesn't come out and she just looks cobalt! Does anyone else have this problem or know how to overcome it?

The big worry is that it could be psitticosis. :budgiedance: Aviary birds catch nasties from visiting wild birds. I have never had the need to add warmth to my aviary but during winter I put lots of leafy branches with perches running through them into corners so that they can huddle in amongst them to keep warm.

Daz, I had been considering adding an 'Omega oil' supplement to my birds seed but I've now held off, do you know if this is similiar to the cod liver oil as far as potential issues?

Cool, well it will be interesting to see how he comes up after his moult.

.....What age do they get the iris rings?I have never had one of my YF2s turn from cinnamon to normal during a moult though?

:Sigh:... thank goodness for quarantine.

Well s/he is only a youngster and that photo makes hte ceres look alot bluer for some reason? There is actually a brown tinge to the bottom, I was a bit torn whether it was a boy or a girl as the colour is not really that blue :budgiedance:.

Compare to this one which is full cinnamon and it is easy to see the colour differnece on the back and neck. And the new one:

This is a front on shot: http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x259/er...ax/DSC00577.jpg As you can see sort of on this photo she is not cinnamon on her head and neck like my full cinnamon birds and then she is normal in spots as seen on the wing shot.

The paler brown areas on her wings are cinnamon, the dark feathers are black. The rest of her feathers are washed out except for splodges on her back that are darker where the normal feathers are. Also notice that the yellow on the non-cinnamon wing feathers is brighter than on the cinnamon feathers.

Here are the photos! Rather than reduce them to fit them on the forum I have left them large so that they are easier to see http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x259/er...ax/DSC00576.jpg http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x259/er...ax/DSC00575.jpg http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x259/er...ax/DSC00574.jpg The thing that gets me is the mix of black and cinnimon on the wings. Also on the 'tail-shot' you can see therre are areas where the blue seems to be missing which means the yellow from the YF2 is showing as yellow rather than green.

I found the most amazing violet pied girl in a pet shop near me. She is $35 and I would have had her in a snap but I'm poor this week. If she's still there next week I might grab her. If anyone wants to know details PM me. This shop is my personal project and the owner adores her animals, they are really well looked after.

This was a white light but it was not hard to see at all. It was quite large actually! Maybe I have the Pharlap of budgies