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Yes I'm hoping she develops into a long bird. This time around we used Hardiflex cement boards. A cheaper alternative to Marine Ply

That's a very innovative extension! ~ Well Done! :emoticon112:

As I posted 2x before: "A Guide to Colour Mutations and Genetics in Parrots" Dr Terry Martin Quoted directly: The existance of this genetic family has long been the bane of Budgerigar breeders who, through their show circut, have learnt that all birds are either green or blue in colour. The truth is that they can be Parblue (in budgerigars these mutations are known as Goldenface and Yellowface Mutant 2) as well, giving four base colours! This complication has led to the false belief that Parblue is somehow dominant or co-dominant and that green birds simply "mask" the colour. It has also created the mistaken belief that these mutations add yellow family pigments to the bird, when in fact they simply remove less than the true Blue mutation. It is true that they do produce some yellow family pigments, but compared to the Normal bird (greens) they are defective. Can you tell me which book that is GB. I would love to read it for comparison. I find the book I've quoted an extremely credible reference based on science rather than heresay which is so common in the budgie fraternity. Sure science and ideas can be wrong but in this case after reading carefully the sections on Perblues and how the gene also reacts in other parrot forms I tend to agree with the quote. I have been able to source a DF yf so will see for myself (so long as all the breedings work out okay) if you can get a YF green (which would mean you should be able to breed yf AND blues from the same pairing). I still believe that you can get greens/yf but not YF Greens. okay that is very interesting AND informatative. Thanks Nubbly!

Ummmm. Well I was thinking more along the lines that YF Greens do exist but are very hard to identify so can be overlooked until a 'surprise' pops up.

okay, trying again ~

They are looking very good. All in good breeding condition from what I can see ~ Excellent!

Oh dear Oh deary me!

Yes ... for now! Grilles under the main perches soon I hope. Just had a good look at the photos - hard to believe I can take such **** photos - but then I'm reliable that way!

And all in the new aviary ~

Today dawned lovely and balmy so I've brought forward the transfer date! So photos as promised- Some of my Red Rungers: Magic's half brother ClearFlighted Domi Pied~ Magic's half sister ClearFlighted Domi Pied Opaline~ Cinnamon Spangle hen for my DF line ~ Another Spangle for my DF line ~ Yes, another Spangle ~ DF Yellow (won Best UBC a couple of shows back) ~ Clearwing hen (won Best Clearwing at UBC show) ~ Greygreen Opaline hen ~ YF Blue cock ~ Opaline Grey hen ~ Grey hen~ YF Grey cock ~ Cinnamon LGreen hen ~

Precisely! Also, when the judge from SA judge us at SW earlier in the year (many apologies but his name escapes me at the moment) He said that at least one of Gary's Greygreens were in fact YF .... remember the debate? Now wouldn't that bird be another similar example of a very difficult to diagnose YF? Say if you put it to a Green bird then wouldn't the possible outcome be a YF Green but again hard to tell ..... Or am I going down the wrong track with this?

The weather forecast is finally looking up .... Sunshine and Occasional showers for the next week and night-time temperatures around the 10C mark. So SUNDAY is the big transfer day ..... Photos to be posted on Sunday.

I'm with Dave on this one as I too understand that some birds develop tumours and there is a genetic disposition to it.

And they are Very gratefully received!

I'm so sorry Splat, this is such a disappointment. And your birds are really gorgeous.

Yes, I have from Carl's YF Australian Mutants They have a sea green body colour which indicates that they are probably split blue.

Well Done Artemis! You're doing the right thing here by providing a 'safe' shelter.

Very Well Done Dr Nat! :rofl: and CONGRATULATIONS on taking out this award!

Woooo Hooooo! :rofl:

Wow! It sounds pretty full on!

Are they both older than 12 months? Are they closely related? (brother/sister/mother/son/father/daughter)? If your answers are Yes to the first question and NO to the second question and you'd like to breed them then by all means get a breeding box. (Just on the safe side why don't you post a picture!)

Yes he's a Clear Flighted Dominant Pied.

What news on the slab Kaz? Will we have pics soon?

LG Cock Y/F split Ino LG Hen split Blue and Greywing Ino chickies- hens okay that's my best guess ....as gentics is NOT my forte I don't expect this to be completely correct