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She is a type 2 yellow face opaline cobalt. The yellow is not bright enough for her to be a golden face. She doesn't look violet in the picture

Pictures showing their backs as well as their fronts would be a big help Opaline sky blue Opaline light green Dominant pied sky blue Probably greywing Opaline sky blue violet Opaline dominant pied light green

Type 2 yellow face white double factor spangle hen

This link to a page of an old thread shows some examples of combinations of clearflight and dominant pieds http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index....0type&st=40

I think that this bird is not just dominant pied. He is a combination of two pied types. As he is showing iris ring I think he is dominant pied and clearflight pied

Type 2 yellow face cobalt recessive pied female Recessive pied grey (female?) Type 2 yellow face recessive pied sky blue (male?) Type 2 yellow face recessive pied grey female Cinnamon sky blue male Type 2 yellow face dominant pied sky blue With type 2 yellow face budgies the yellow spreads into the body colour causing a blended effect

If you are colony breeding as your signature suggests then no predictions will be accurate because the parentage of the chicks will be doubtful

PAIR 1: Dominant pied grey cock & albino hen Assuming the grey is single factor and the albino is not masking any other mutations: 25% dominant pied grey 25% dominant pied blue 25% normal grey 25% normal blue All males will be split for ino Albinos often mask other mutations and both birds could be split for other mutations so these could affect the outcome PAIR 2: Green series double factor spangle cock & Type 2 yellow face opaline cobalt hen. All the chicks will be green spangles unless the cock is split for blue. If he is split for blue then: 50% green spangle 25% blue spangle 25% yellow face blue spangle All the males will be split for opaline. If the cock bird is split for opaline 50% will be opaline spangle. If any other mutations appear they will be combined with the spangle PAIR 3: Dominant pied light green cock & T2 yellow face clearwing cobalt hen (her body colour is too strong for a greywing) 25% light green normal 25% dark green normal 25% dominant pied light green 25% dominant pied dark green All chicks will be split for clearwing and 50% will mask yellow face If the cock bird is split for blue: 12.5% light green normal 12.5% dark green normal 12.5% dominant pied light green 12.5% dominant pied dark green 6.25% sky blue normal 6.25% cobalt normal 6.25% yellow face sky blue 6.25% Yellow face cobalt 6.25% dominant pied sky blue 6.25% dominant pied cobalt 6.25% yellow face dominant pied sky blue 6.25% yellow face dominant pied cobalt You will only get clearwing chicks if the cock is split for clearwing

Sounds like you haven't done much research on breeding budgies. Seventeen or eighteen days is normal incubation time. The eggs will hatch in the order they were laid at about two day intervals. The second hen may not have started to incubate her eggs for a few days after she laid them so her chicks will start hatching later It is usually safe to foster eggs or young chicks to another nest at a similar stage

the yellow is bleeding to the wings and chest making it a type 2 It looks like a mature bird and there is very minimal bleeding of yellow, also the yellow is very pale. I think it's a type 1

All the female chicks will be albino (or lutino if the hen is green based). The males will be split for lacewing and opaline

Grey green opaline Golden face cobalt dominant pied Type 1 Yellow face recessive pied sky blue violet Recessive pied light green The barring on the chest of your sky blue normal is interesting. I've only ever seen it before on cinnamons and it always seems to disappear after the first moult

Yellow face opaline grey and a creamino (yellow face albino)

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I totally agree with this post. Here is a link to an article about seed verses pellets: http://www.abbaseed.com/INFO/Tips/Tips_2/tips_2.html

The green is a dark green opaline recessive pied. The pictures are not clear enough to tell if the cere is pink or brown, but if it's pink it is male The blue is a sky blue opaline dominant pied female

I have a lutino hen that is masking yellow face, spangle, dominant pied and opaline I've heard of a budgie having 7 mutations but when they have a lot it is difficult to detect some of them.

I have bred plenty of spangle dominant pieds and I do not believe that chick is one

The cock is clearly not a double factor spangle because if he was the chick would be spangle which it is not. The cock looks like a spangle dominant pied and the chick is double factor dominant pied. Double factor spangles can mask other mutations in the same way as inos mask them but if a double factor spangle was masking a mutation you wouldn't be able to see the mutation

It doesn't matter what mutations the lutino's were masking they could not produce a normal chick. If a pair of lutinos were both split for blue and one was masking yellow face you could only get lutinos, albinos and yellow face albinos. The chick you remember must have had at least one different parent or one of your yellow birds was not a lutino

Male without doubt

Congratulations

I've never had a cock bird behave like this but removing him & the chicks was your only option. He'll probably look after the chicks in the nursery. There is a good chance that all the second clutch will be fertilised so if he was mine I wouldn't put him back with the hen. Also I wouldn't have left a damaged egg in the nest because it might encourage egg eating

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