Neville

George must be split for opaline, cinnamon and blue. There is also a 50% chance that he is carrying yellow face. The spot on the back of George's father's head means that he is split for recessive pied (It can't be dominant pied regardless of the size of the spot, because he is obviously not a dominant and it can't be carried in any lesser form). So there is a 50% chance that George has inherited the recessive pied gene. So you should get normal green males and females And some opaline, cinnamon & opaline cinnamon females And if Lumina happens to be split for blue you could get some blues If Lumina is split for recessive pied and George has inherited the gene you could also get recessive pieds If there are any blues then some yellow faces are possible if George is carrying yellow face

Name: Neville Pets: About 100 budgies. I started breeding budgies when I was a child and by the time I was in my late teens I had several hundred. After I started farming I gave up keeping breeding budgies and concentrated on other animals. After my retirement I started to breed budgies again. Favorite Colour: Blue Age: 67 Weakness: Chocolate Strength: Responsible parent and grandparent Favorite Animal: Budgie Favorite T.V. Show: Old style situation comedys Live: in the Northern part of New Zealand BBC member for 2 months My other interests are: Genealogy, Amateur Theatre, Genetics in all species and doing voluteer work in the community

How may hours of light do they have? If their hours of light are less now than they were before you bought them they may think it's winter. Increasing their light by about an hour a day might start them breeding. Another possiblity is that she is getting old, hens will lay less eggs and lay them less often as they age

Greywing on a green series bird is often slightly brownish. Greywing combined with cinnamon would make the cinnamon a much paler brown but so would clearwing

He could have been full body greywing. I think that the wings were pale because he was both cinnamon and greywing but it could have been cinnamon and clearwing which would account for the bright body colour

Sunny Boy must have been a grey-green cinnamon greywing (or possibly grey-green greywing split for cinnamon). His green partner was a spangle. The two daughters pictured are both grey-green cinnamon spangles. This would be consistant with the pair also producing green and grey-green spangle and normal males. I think that the other daughter you mentioned must have been a grey-green cinnamon spangle, her cinnamon marking would have been quite pale having the spangle mutation as well. She must have been a spangle to produce a double factor spangle when mated to another spangle. It is normal for double factor spangles to be bright yellow. The cinnamons would have been born with red eyes.

Possibly there are more over here. I prefer strong colours so I've never bought dilutes but there alway seems to be plenty available with and without yellow faces

I don't actually have one but yellow face dilutes are fairly common

There is a mutation called brown wing that has darker markings than a cinnamon, but I believe that it is very rare

I presume you mean the shade of the markings. There seems to be quite a bit of variation between birds some have very black markings and others are slightly brown but not as brown as cinnamons. I have one that looked brown in some lights but when I bred from him he just produced normals

I've learned tricks like putting millet sprays and seed in the nest to help when there is a large clutch I've learned more about the vitamins and minerals that budgies need I've learned that there are others just as mad about budgies as me I've learned that there are lots of very nice people on this forum

It depends on the demand. Cinnamons a fairly common in my aviary

These chicks are all consistant with what you'd expect from this pair provided that the cock bird is split for opaline. Without knowing the dark factor of the grey green the only green shade that you couldn't get would be olive (and there are no olives among the chicks). They are are beautiful family, you should be proud of them

You have a very beautiful budgie. She is a type 2 yellow face cobalt dominant pied. The yellow has spread through the white and the blue giving the colourful effect. She looks about 6 months old

I think you have a YF2 This will only sort out a YF blue that has gone green from a naturally green bird

Here are a few sites that you might find helpful http://www.budgerigarassociation.com/baa_034.htm http://www.officialbarrieshuttbudgerigars....lbudgerigar.htm http://www.budgerigars.co.uk/genetics/peake.html

Cinnamons are born with red eyes and they darken as they grow. Or they could be fallows. I'd like to see a some pictures too

I had a hen that laid 1 egg then started laying the rest of the clutch a week later. I candled the eggs and found that the 1st and the 3rd eggs were fertile. This meant there would have been 9 days between the first 2 chicks. I fostered the 1st egg so I don't know if she would have managed with the age difference but I have had them hatch with a 7 day space and they have managed

Congratulations. Cute picture

There is opaline, greywing and dominant pied in the chicks. He is definately single factor dominant pied, he could also be greywing and he must be split for opaline because he is not showing the mutation himself. His cere is very odd

Usually line breeding is done to propagate a good point the foundation stock have but it can work just the same at propagating bad points. For example if you line bred from a bird that had an extra long tail and bad throat spots, you might find that the bad throat spots were inherited instead of the long tail

Generally the chicks that are being fostered should be under 2 weeks old. The pair that are receiving them should have chicks of a similar age or be sitting on infertile eggs. Hens that are still laying eggs are usually not suitable. Identifying the foster chick is sometimes a problem. If they are too small to put a ring on they can be temporally marked with twink (tip-ex)

A hen can rear chicks on her own quite well. If she has a large brood it would pay to foster some if possible

The picture looks like a hen! It looks like a combination of dominant pied and clearflight pied. Are all the pied chicks dominants or are some of them clearflights?