Neville

That's a very good article. Thanks

To Maesie & Elly CONGRATULATIONS

This description fit a full body greywing rather than the usual greywing. Greywings are normally described as having 50% intensity of body colour.Here's a photo of a full body greywing, the result of mating a greywing to a clearwing. I chased this little hen off the nest to get a photo http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll78/nev90/11.jpg

Here's one of my greywing sky blues. 50% dilution of body colour and grey wings http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll78/nev90/106.jpg This one is a clearwing mauve. Full body colour and very light wing. A lot of clearwings have more markings that this one Sorry I don't have any dilutes at the moment (They're not one of my favorite mutations). They should have very light wing markings and the body colour should be diluted by at least 80%

My first impression was that she was a dominant pied light green dilute. With the colour of the cheek patches could be grey green instead of light green. Dilute is just the modern name for what 50 years ago we would have called a self

The pair both look too young to be breeding. I think you're right with the mutations but the hen's picture is not clear enough to be sure

If Primo is split for blue you will get about 25% yellow face blues, 25% white face blues and 50% greens.If Primo is not split for blue the chicks will all be green series You won't get any opalines unless Primo is split for opaline and you won't get any recessive pied unless Banana is split for recessive pied You’re right up to here Grey and violet are both colour adding factors. They are in addition to the bird’s colour. They are both dominant so if they don’t show in at least one of the parents, they won’t appear in the chicks. Lutino or albino is a sex linked mutation. It will only appear in the chicks if the cock bird carries the gene even if the hen is a visible lutino or albino

No, definately recessive

With opalines there is a lot less barring on the head and shoulders and the body colour can be seen between the dark markings on the wings. There is a lot of variation between birds, some will have very heavy flecking on their heads and shoulders and others will be almost clear Dominant pieds have clear flight feathers and also a band (or part of a band) of clear feathers across the front of their bodies. Don't worry too much about the clear spot on the back of their heads as all pieds have this spot. Some will have clear tail feather and some wont. If a pied has the clear flight feathers but doesn't have a clear band across it's front it is probably a clearfight pied not a dominant pied. (By the way the name of the mutation is dominant not dominate) With recessive pieds the pied pattern is random. Some will have a lot of marking on their wings and some very little. Most have a patch of body colour on the rump and usually they have clear areas fairly high on their chests Normal is just that. A full quota of head and wing bars and no patches on their bodies Yes it is as simple as that. With normal greywings the markings will be exactly the same as normals except that they are grey. Also the body colour will be diluted by about half. If a greywing is also opaline the makings will be the same as other opalines but grey instead of black

Koko is a normal sky blue mature male Banana is a yellow face opaline sky blue female Primo is a recessive pied (olive?) male. can't quite see the colour of the patch on his body. He has a lot more clear areas than most recessive pieds but there is no obvious second mutation (He isn't a double factor dominant pied) They all look like mature birds. Once budgies are over about 9 months old it becomes very difficult to tell their age until they get very old

I think that the dad is a yellow face greywing sky blue and if the chick hasn't got red eyes then it is a yellow face dilute

Congratulations. It is quite common for the first 2 chicks to be born close together because often the hen doesn't start incubating the first egg until the second egg is laid

Yellow face Skyblue Greywing Split to Recessive Cock mated to a Grey Opaline Hen No greywings, opalines or recessive pieds unless the other bird is split for these mutations To get the percentages accurate we would need to know the dark factor of the hen but If she has a dark factor of one and she is a single factor grey: 25% Yellow face grey 12.5% Yellow face sky blue 12.5% Yellow face cobalt 12.5% Sky blue 12.5% Cobalt 25% Grey If the hens dark factor is zero then there won't be any cobalt. If her dark factor is two then there won't be any sky blue. Of course if either of the pair are split for other mutations it will alter the result

I normally remove the chicks when they are about 6 weeks old unless they are being a nuisance, then they get moved earlier

Without the red eyes I would have said it was a dilute but with red eyes it must be a yellow face lacewing, which means that the father must be split to lacewing or split to both cinnamon and ino. The crossover rate from a split cinnamon and ino is very low so you're lucky to get a lacewing if that's the dad breeding

5 years is really too old for breeding a hen but I would be inclined to risk it if there's no other hen available and she is fit. Personally I would mate her to an ino and be ready to foster out some of the chicks. You won't get any TCB chicks from her but 1 of her sons might throw some.

"It does happen but it doesn't happen often"

He looks cinnamon to me too. If he is cinnamon and he is mated to a cinnamon hen then all the chicks will be cinnamon. If he is a split then half of the chicks of both sexes would be normals. A cinnamon cock mated to a normal hen will produce cinnamon hens and normal/cinnamon cocks. A normal split cinnamon cock mated to a normal hen will produce 25% cinnamon hens, 25% normal hens, 25% normal/cinnamon cocks and 25% normal cocks

You've got it right. Gotta be quick to answer round here

Congratulations Aaron

It all looks really great. Good luck with your breeding season. Cabinet breeding is much more interesting than colony breeding because you can keep a much closer watch on their progress

I’m assuming the violet is single factor over cobalt. If it is double factor all the chicks will carry single factor violet. If the violet is over sky blue there won’t be any mauve (or sky blue). It is not possible for a hen to be split for opaline There will be no recessive pieds unless the hen is also split for recessive pied. If she is split you'll get some recessive pieds and some recessive pied combined with the other mutations The chicks should include: Normal mauve Normal cobalt Normal violet Spangle mauve Spangle cobalt Spangle violet Dominant pied mauve Dominant pied cobalt Dominant pied violet Dominant pied spangle mauve Dominant pied spangle cobalt Dominant pied spangle violet

Very nice bird. Welcome to the forum. I'm fairly new here too

If she was mauve her cheek patches would be purplish. cheek patches on greys range from grey to blue. As Falki said check her tail, the long tail feathers on a grey would be black

If I was closer I would've pushed the bidding up quite a bit. As you would have expected the opaline's are the females and the non-opaline's the males