Neville

You've got it worked out, 1 dominant and 1 recessive. Both hens. I can understand how they just happened to jump in a box and come out of the shop with you

I'd say definately a cock. Perhaps Sailorwolf has hit the problem with number 5

Budgies breeding cycle peaks about every seven weeks

I agree there is a lot of information in the breeding section on this forum. If you want to know more here's a link to an excellent web site that might help http://www.officialbarrieshuttbudgerigars....edingadvice.htm

It all depends where you live. Danish Pied is another name for recessive pieds, Continental or Dutch pied is another name for Clearflight pied. Dominant pieds are sometimes called Australian Banded Pieds. (Some people argue that there is a difference between Dutch and Continental Clearflight but they look the same)

If you are getting ivermec from someone other than a vet make sure that it is mixed at the right dilution rate. The rate that it is used for dogs or cats would kill a budgie. The correct dilution rate for budgies is 1% and the birds should be given 1 drop on the back of the neck. A little olive oil would help until you get the ivermec

She looks old enough. If she is taking no interest in the nest after about 3 weeks I'd be inclined to remove it for a couple of weeks then try again. Sometimes an isolated pair won't breed until another pair is put where they can see and hear them. Music playing often helps if the birds are slow to start breeding because budgies are flock birds and they don't like it to be too quiet

Try thinking of the pied types as entirely different mutations, which is what they are, then you can combine them in the same way as you would combine any other mutation. Like an opaline and a spangle or a greywing and a yellow face

I'll try and confuse you some more. It probably would have been blue when it first came out of the nest but the yellow spread after it's first moult making it appear green. It is a blue series bird and if it was mated to a blue it could produce yellow face blues but it could not produce greens

The first one looks like it could be in the early stages of development, the second looks infertile. You should leave them untill the last egg is over 21 days old to be sure before giving up on them, unless you're absolutely sure about your candling

If your torch is not strong enough you won't be able to see movement but those that have a dark area are probably fertile. Usually fertile eggs will go a lighter colour than the infertile ones and then during the last few day they get a more greyish look. I wouldn't try to clean the eggs as they are very easily damaged. They are not dirty enough to cause any problems

I think that what you have is a dominant pied cock mated to a clearflight pied hen. The chicks won't be double factor dominants. From this mating you'd expect about 25% combination dominant pied & clearflight pied, 25% dominant pied, 25% clearflight pied and 25% normals. This would account for Magik looking different

Here's an amended version Sunny & Raine Recessive Pied Dark Green & Greywing Light Green split for Recessive Pied 50% Dark green, 50% Light Green unless they both are split for blue. If they are then 37.5% each of Light Green & Dark Green, plus 12.5% each Cobalt & Sky Blue. Half the chicks will be recessive pied and half normals, no greywing unless Sunny is split for greywing. All the chicks will be split for greywing. All the chicks that are not recessive pied will be split for recessive pied (I'm not sure whether Raine is light or dark green, if he's dark you'll get olives

It looks green in the photo but the camera doesn't always get the colours right. If you look under the wings and if there is blue or white showing then he's type 2 yellow face, if there's yellow and green then he's a green

1/ Dominant Pied Light Green (Single factor, a double would be almost all clear yellow with only a few markings) 2/ Dominant Pied Sky Blue 3/ Greywing green that is probably split to recessive pied (The clear patch on the back of the head of an otherwise normal bird is usually an indicator that it is split to recessive pied) 4/ Recessive Pied Dark Green

Male recessive pieds have pink ceres and in the photo his cere looks pink. If it was a female the cere should be white or very pale blue or brown. Males often court each other so that doesn't mean anything. If you'd like to post a closer photo of his face, without a flash, we could tell for sure

I've answered this on another forum but I'll answer here as well Cinder is a normal cobalt Opal is a recessive pied cobalt Banshee is also a recessive pied cobalt (even though he has more marking than Opal) I'd need a better photo of Cloud and Storms back view to indentify their mutations properly but I think that Cloud is spangle cobalt and Storm is recessive pied spangle cobalt (possible violet) Opal is male so you can't pair him with either Cinder or Banshee who are also males

Yes I see it but I think it's caused by the quality of the photo

If your cock bird is not split for blue then all the chicks will be green. If he is split for blue then you'd get 50% blue series chicks. Your picture is not very clear but it looks like both birds are 1 dark factor. If they are then you'd get all 3 shades of greens (and of blues if he is split). I think your hen is a clearwing but to get any clearwings he would need to be split for clearwing as it is a recessive mutation. Most birds are split for something so expect some surprises

The difference between a Lutino/Ino and a Dark Eyed Clear (DEC) or a Double Factor Spangle These three birds can all be the same colour with the same amount of suffusion. The main difference is their eyes and the colour of the adult male's cere. There are other very subtle differences. Lutinos (or albinos) have red eyes with an iris ring and the males cere will stay pink all his life Dark eyed clears have dark eyes with no iris ring. (As small babies in the nest their eyes are plum coloured). The male's cere will stay pink all it's life Double factor spangle adults have black eyes with an iris ring and the adult male's cere is the normal blue colour

The distribution of the pied pattern is very important when identifying pieds. The clear areas on the front of the chest are usually higher on a recessive than a dominant. The eyes, the beak and feet colour are important indicators but not infallable. Also this bird has marked flight feathers which a dominant pied would never have

Yes it does a bit and I must admit that when I first saw it my impression was recessive but most of the combinations I have seen look more like double factor dominants whereas this bird has definite SF dominant pied characteristics

I don't think that it applies to this bird but there a lot of pieds out there that are both dominant and recessive mutations at the same time. If a dominant pied is mated to a recessive it will produce dominant pieds that are split to recessive. If one of these splits is mated to a recessive pied then some of the offspring will be both mutations. These combination pieds with characteristics of both mutations can be quite difficult to identify

I agree with everyone else

Blue. It's a yellow face albino (provided it has red eyes)