Neville

Looks male to me too

Didn't this bird have white tail feathers and a couple of white flight feathers in earlier photos?

Judges have to use the judging criteria set down by the budgerigar association and the association is made up of breeders

Maybe these article I wrote might help you to grasp the basics http://www.officialbarrieshuttbudgerigars....plegenetics.htm

I think they have gone too far. Some don't look like budgies at all, they have enormous heads with eyes that are hardly visable and loose shaggy feathers. I like tight feathered sleek budgies

It's a picture on a calander

This was taken the day it left the nest. I think that there has been an improvement since

Once you get the hang of genetics it is all quite logical but I do think that most sites get carried away with tecnical explanations that make it very hard for a beginner to follow

Sky (cock) is not Dominant Pied or Opaline. In this photo he looks like a Sky Blue Greywing, but I looked back at an earlier thread and he appears to be a sky blue clearflight greywing If Sunny is not split for greywing and Sky is not split for opaline or cinnamon you would get about 25% each of clearflight pied, spangle, Clearflight spangle combination and normals. About half the chicks would be yellow face

The sex at their age is always a bit uncertain Mayo is an olive recessive pied hen Pickles is a normal cobalt violet cock Ketchup I'm not sure about: Liv might be right with golden face. My first impression was normal grey green hen. The cheek patches look like they are going to be blue rather than purple which suggests grey or grey green. Green chicks often have blueish feathers. Would be interested to see a photo when it is fully feathered

They are both dominant pieds. If they are both single factor you will get 50% single factor dominant pieds, 25% double factor dom pieds and 25% normals. If one is double factor and the other is single factor you will get 50% double factor and 50% single factor. The chicks will be all green based unless the cock is split for blue. If the birds are split for other mutations you could get some surprises, possibly combined with the pied

Is it possible to get a full back view picture of the green bird. Neither of them look like recessive pieds to me

I can only see about half of the pictures but those that I can see are really beautiful. I particularly like the 2 lacewings and the violet opaline cinnamon spangle

Swollen vent, big poops and tail pumping are signs that there will be an egg soon

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I agree that the 1st one is a cock and the other 2 are hens. Usually when a cock bird gets brown on the cere it is a sign of hormonal imbalance or testicular cancer

Since she is a pet type you probably can't breed any show winners from her so you could pair her to anything you like. If you want cinnamons then you'd need to pair her to a male that is either cinnamon or split for cinnamon. Pairing her to a double factor spangle you'll get all SF spangles. If he is a white DF spangle they'll all be blue (at least 2 shades) and half of them will be yellow face. If they happen to be split for any other mutations you could get some spangle combinations. The yellow face recessive pied cock would give you all normals (75% with yellow faces). You would only get recessive pieds or cinnamons if they were split for each others mutations.

T2 yellow face blue recessive pied cock to T2 yellow face blue opaline greywing dominant pied hen: All blue series (If they are both sky blue then all sky blue. If they are both cobalt then a range of shades) 50% Single Factor Type 2 yellow face, 25% Double Factor Type 2 yellow face, 25% white face (DF T2s have yellow faces it is only Type 1's that the DFs are white faced) 50% dominant pied, 50% normal All split for recessive pied All split for greywing All males split for opaline No visual opaline unless the cock is split for opaline No visual recessive pied unless the hen is split for recessive pied No visual greywing unless the cock is split for greywing Plus other hidden mutations

I'd like to have some of every mutation and every possible combination of mutations but if I had to pick one it would be lacewing

She is a TCB but she looks very old My thoughts on the yellow bird are the same as Ellys'

They are two different genes and they don't combine. Greywing is dominant to dilute so unless the greywing is split for dilute the chicks will be greywing

I agree with Elly. Sky blue recessive pied

They usually look the same but a DF will have all grey or grey green chicks when mated to a normal and a SF will have half normals and half grey or grey green. If your bird was bred from 2 grey greens there is a 25% chance that he is double factor

Welcome to the forum Your bird is a cobalt recessive pied. The blue is very bright so he could be carrying violet but thats hard to tell from photos

The difference in the shade of grey is probably because of the dark factor. If the parents both had one dark factor the chick could have 2, 1 or none. The 1st picture does look like he could be a T2 yellow face grey rather than a grey green but it's probably just the flash. A grey green is not always split for blue, grey green is the green form of grey. He could be double factor grey green but that shouldn't make any difference to his appearance