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Neville

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  1. Your 1st bird looks like a full body greywing The second looks like a cinnamon but the body is very bright The 3rd is opaline greywing
  2. Violet will make a lutinos colour richer. Adding more dark factor will also help. I presume you are aware that mating your violet cock to a lutino hen won't produce any lutinos in the first generation unless he is carrying the gene
  3. I think that this bird is a type 2 yellow face sky blue spangle that has turned green after her moult. The green colour is not the right shade for a light green and the yellow is much brighter on the face than on the wings and back. To check the colour look under the wings to see if she has blue or white feathers
  4. Neville replied to Cory's post in a topic in What Sex Is My Budgie?
    Snowflake is a young albino. Looks about 2 months old. The cere looks pink in the photo which means that you have a male. A male albino's cere stays pink all his life Fiona is a normal dark green hen about 4 or 5 months old she is still going through her first moult Sky is a recessive pied female. It is difficult to tell the age of recessive pieds but as she has a ring on her leg you could check to see if it is dated
  5. By GF2, yes I mean Goldenface II. There is only one golden face mutation so you don't need the 2. There are two mutations of yellow face which is probably why you have the mutations confused
  6. If Oliver's mother was opaline he definately will be split for opaline as well
  7. Opaline is a sex linked mutation and only males can carry it as split so if it turns out that he is carrying opaline he can only have inherited it from his father unless his mother was an opaline. With so many mutations turning up in one clutch of chicks it makes me wonder if the birds are colony bred and they have different fathers
  8. If Oliver’s father was a greywing he will definately be split for greywing. For his father to have produced a creamino (yellow face albino) and a cinnamon he must have been split for both ino and cinnamon (both sex-linked and must have come from the male). As the cinnamon chick was also recessive pied both parents must have been split for recessive pied. Oliver has a 50% chance of inheriting each of these 3 mutations. Apart from greywing, which he must have, the only way to find out if he has inherited the other 3 mutations is by test breeding
  9. Cinnamon opaline grey green. The brown wing marking show it's cinnamon, the wing pattern show that it's opaline, the colour of the cheek patches show that it's grey green rather than olive. The cinnamon causes the body colour to be more washed out than a normal of the same shade
  10. It looks female in the first picture but - Was the photo taken with a flash?
  11. Neville replied to lean2078's post in a topic in Breeders Discussion
    2 parents that are blackface would produce 100% blackface 1 parent that is blackface and 1 parent that is split for blackface would produce 50% blackface 2 parents that are both split for blackface would produce 25% blackface The mutation is so rare that we probably won't have to worry about it anyway!
  12. To stop her laying eggs you need to put her in different cage and reduce her daylight hours by covering the cage a couple of hours before dark and then uncovering it a couple of hours after dawn. Hen budgies do not need to have mated to produce eggs so the fact that she has laid eggs does not necessarily mean that the other bird is male
  13. Neville replied to janazz's post in a topic in What Sex Is My Budgie?
    I think female too
  14. The purple cheek patches show that he's olive. A grey green would have grey or blue cheek patches
  15. Ivermectin solution for budgies is mixed at a rate of 1% and one drop is placed on the back of the bird's neck. When I needed some our local non-avian vet didn't know anything about it but after I explained it he looked it up and mixed some for me. It didn't cost much
  16. Boof - Opaline olive Florrie - Opaline light green Maggi - Clearwing spangle light green (could also be cinnamon) Cindy - Cinnamon opaline light green
  17. This is a picture of a type 2 yellow face opaline grey that looks like a grey green because the yellow has spread. He's quite light because he has no dark factor
  18. It might take over in an aviary that are colony breeding but it can't take over if you have controlled cabinet breeding
  19. Since fallow is recessive and ino & lacewing are both sex linked mating her to a normal won't tell much in one generation unless she is df dominant pied as well as her other mutation. I think a lacewing cock would be a good choice to see if you get both sexes of lacewing chicks. Alternatively mate her to a fallow because if she is fallow all the chicks would be fallow. A cinnamon cock could prove that she is cinnamon
  20. I agree with what Dean has said
  21. As she has iris rings, if she is pied and fallow, the pied type can't be recessive. It could be double factor dominant pied with fallow. I can't see what pairing her with a recessive pied will prove. The throat spots definately look cinnamon
  22. Very odd markings. The throat spots look very cinnamon like a lacewing but I've never seen a red eyed bird with green on it's back. I suppose it could be a pied fallow. Are you able to test breed her to prove the mutation?
  23. It's a boy!
  24. Looks male to me. It's cere looks pink not brown
  25. Can't see enough of the first one to be sure - (looks greywing) The second one is a spangle - could be grey Third is a normal cobalt Fourth is a dominant pied (mauve or grey) Fifth is another dominant pied but too young to tell the colour - might be opaline as well