Jen144

Okay, anyways, thank you. :question: Now I'm not so confused.

Okay thank you. Why are they called clear pins however, as they aren't really..I did leave for easter holidays when they were that age above and only came back today so I missed a lot of their growth, would the pinfeathers have become obviously clear when they were a bit older?

I'm guessing they are two females. Here are some photos of their ceres. Opinions?

They are older now (25 days) so here's the photo I have that showed their tails when they were still pinfeathers. In real life, the outside pinfeathers were yellow and the two in the middle were a dark blue with white-ish at the top.

When a baby budgie is a Spangle, what do the tail pinfeathers look like? They are all dark with two clear ones in the middle, right? And a normal is just all dark, while pieds can have some clear ones? Is that all correct? If not, please correct me..if so, then why did my two baby Spangle budgies have all clear tail pinfeathers with two dark-ish ones in the middle instead of the other way around? They are just Spangle, no other mutation. So I'm slightly confused.

I'd say a Skyblue Yellowface2 Dilute?

I've heard of another few pink/red budgies. (goodness knows if they've been dyed or something though). I'm not sure of the site where they posted it but here are the pictures: What do you guys think of these?

I wasn't able to follow up on the red budgie. The guy who had bred the bird no longer had any photos, and has since moved away. But he told me what pairings (he had extensive records of his breeding) that had made this budgie, and how the offspring of that red budgie had some red feathers also (one had more red than the parent). So I'm convinced red budgies CAN somehow be bred but I have no idea how yet. He said he: Bred an Albino male and female (one was carrying grey in its ancestry), and got this completely grey budgie. He bred the grey budgie (a female I believe) back to her father and got a few normal offspring plus 2 grey budgies with some red feathers. He bred those to their relations (a Recessive Pied grandfather he mentioned as one of the pairings) and got another red and grey budgie, this time with even more red on her. No other birds in the same breeding conditions had any red on them. He was breeding in a cage for each pair, so if it only happened with one pair and then in most of the offspring of that pair, it can't have been the diet or a mineral perch that was affecting the birds' colouring. Plus, it was inherited (from father to daughter). He said 'red' as in, a bright red, not a browny-tan colour.

Not sure, would listen to the others opinions first, but I think it's a male.

I can't post any recent pictures, but these photos--though a couple months old--show what I mean anyway. My apologies if I've asked this before.. Okay so I want to know whether this hen is a Yellowface DEC, or Yellowface Recessive Pied with very little markings. Her dad is a Yf Recessive Pied with little markings, only some black on a few feathers on his wings though a bit less than half of his body colour is green, not yellow. Her mother was a Clearflight Pied split for Recessive. She has 3 other siblings..one that looks exactly like her but with no colour whatsoever but the yellow and white (so a Yf DEC for sure, correct), a Clearflight Pied YF Opaline, and a blue Recessive Pied. So, opinions, Recessive Pied or DEC? You can see the tiny bits of blue on her front which she seems to have lost now that she is older. The second picture you can see the green between her wings, which she still has. Thanks in advance for any replies.

Clearflight Pieds look like this. Some have less markings, even so far as a tiny bit of white (or none) on the front and some white flight feathers with the white spot at the back of the head. But most have the white at the top of their chest and on their flight feathers. Dominant Pieds don't. Dominant Pieds look like this. A bar of white across the middle and the pied spot with clear flights sometimes. This is the best picture I could find.. I hope this helps. Basic rule, if it has the pied spot, pied flights, and a bar across the middle of them, it's a Dominant Pied. If the white is on their chest just under their face, then it's a Clearflight Pied.

Thank you, I will try what you said, letting her in the aviary for a month or so before trying her again. :sadsorry:

I need some ideas on how to get this particular female to breed. She's only ever bonded at all with one male, the one she is with at the moment. They've been in the breeding cage the same amount of time as two other pairs who now have eggs. She's getting heaps of veges and grass, it's raining all the time here (I've heard that that encourages them to breed?), her cere is completely brown, she's bonded with the male. Both are about 1 and 1/2 to 2 years old. I've tried taking the male out for a couple days to a week, then putting him back in. Covering the nestbox hole with a piece of cardboard with a small hole in it so she could chew her way in (which she did), they get a lot of daylight hours and are left alone as much as possible. When I'd taken the male out and covered the nest, she got more eager and let the male mate with her and was scratching in the nest a bit, then stopped and hasn't shown any more interest. I really want to breed this specific bird (am quite curious as to what offspring she will have) so any ideas on what I can do to encourage her further would be wonderful. Could I even try what I've done before (taking out the male, covering the nest, etc) and do it again in hopes she will get the idea? Please reply soon, thanks.

Okay thank you.

Any idea on his age, though?

I'm not sure on what colour the female is..But I'd say a Grey Spangle male and a Yellowface Double factor Spangle female. I don't know the exact percentages but you'll get about 75% Spangle and 25% DF Spangle like the mum. Blues and Greys of different shades, half will be Yellowface...And suprises as well.

I bought a new budgie today. A blue--of some shade, I'm unsure if he's Cobalt or Sky?--male Fallow. If someone could tell me his approximate age and what kind of Fallow he is, that would be wonderful. Plus any name ideas.. Getting a photo from photobucket and posting it here is proving impossible at the moment, so I'll post the link to the whole album (his pics are the first three) and hopefully it will work. Thanks. http://s532.photobucket.com/home/Jen1404/index

If it's all pink with no white, that is male too. Normally a very young male or something like a Recessive Pied or Albino.

Teddy is female. The second budgie looks male, the third female. The two other birds have orange beaks because they are Recessive Pieds.

Okay here's my opinions: Snowy is male, Shadow is female Tweety looks female, a better picture would be good Blossom could be either.. Grimmis is a definite female Rex is male Snowflake and Cheeky are both definite females

I'm pretty sure she isn't a member here. Thank you all, by the way. I've emailed her back (and will visit soon to check things out) telling her what she can do.

I know. And I've told her this. But assuming she didn't put in a nestbox (which I'll do until I hear otherwise) what should she do with the eggs and bird?

I'm not sure, she didn't mention. She probably did..

Someone I know has a small flock of budgies..Chippy, the only mature male..Mango, his daughter (about 5 months old), Bella, an unrelated female, and Willow and Sunset, Chippy's sons. Now, I haven't seen this person in a while, but she was emailing me, keeping me updated on this huge aviary they were building. It just got finished and about two weeks ago all the birds were moved in. She emailed me yesterday saying this, and I need to know what I can advise her to do? "Hi Haven't e-mailed in a while, how's things? Anyway, I'll get straight to the point, Mango has 3 fertile eggs and a fourth to young to tell. I had no idea until a couple of days ago when I went to feed them in the aviary and Mango never came to breakfast. I found her sitting on the eggs and she is still laying, the weather forecast predicted storms so I brought them inside. My big problem is the eggs are Chippy's babies and that's not good, nor the fact that Mango has eggs at this age! What should I do, I don't want to take the eggs away and kill the babies!?" What should she do? This is a daughter and father mating, and the female is only 5 months old! Any advice soon would be great, thanks.

Albino is female, so is the Green Cinnamon Dominant Pied.