Neville

Whizzbang – T2 yellow or golden face sky blue Possum – Dominant pied violet grey (The cheek patches are too bright for a grey so she is probably violet grey) Tinkerbell – Albino Sparkles – Opaline recessive pied sky blue Cosmo – Dominant pied light green Gilbert – T2 yellow face opaline spangle sky blue

Hi and welcome to the forum. Budgies are addictive aren't they? If you could post pictures of your flock we'd be able to identify them much more accurately. To get all white chicks from your white hen you'd need to be sure that her mate was the same mutation. If she is a DEC you would need to find another DEC to get all white chicks. If a white dark eyed clear is paired with a white double factor spangle you wouldn't get white chicks. If your hen was paired to a white albino you'd get white females & coloured males

Hi Scott and welcome to the forum. When you have the birds post some pictures for us to admire

The first picture looks like it could be a very faintly marked young lacewing but usually a lacewing will have some colour in the cheek patches which I can't see on this bird. The tail is usually the next best place to look if you are doublful

Hi ATV. Welcome to the forum

There are probably a lot of combinations around but i agree that in most cases you'd need to know the ancestry to figure them out. When the banded dominant pied mutation first appeared they were bred extensively with the existing clearflights so there has been confusion from the start. The clearflight pied can be very variable some only have a few clear feathers and others have large clear areas. Dominant pieds are usually more uniform

There are some pieds on this thread that I think are combinations of clearflight & dominants http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/index.php?showtopic=26986&st=40&p=256677&hl=+test%20+pied%20+types&fromsearch=1entry256677

How would the Americans like it if another country claimed the golden eagle? I have never heard anyone in England call the exhibition type budgies English

Looks like an albino male to me too. I had one similar and his eyes were so dark that I couldn't see the red in them but he was proven by breeding to be albino

It sounds like you have recessive pied chicks

The reason I posted the pictures was because I think he looks like a texas clearbody and I wondered if others would think so too. He is opaline cinnamon but his wing markings are very dark and in some lighting the body colour is hardly visible. His father was a sky blue opaline cinnamon & his mother was a grey opaline cinnamon dominant pied. To be a male of a sex-linked mutation like clearbody he would need to have inherited the mutation from both parents

I would like members opinions on this bird's mutation. He is not what I expected

Sky blue spangle male mated to an opaline violet mauve. If neither bird was split for anything (which is unlikely) & assuming that the violet is single factor. The result would be: 25% cobalt normal 25% violet cobalt normal 25% cobalt spangle 25% violet cobalt spangle All the males will be split for opaline. If the cock bird happened to be split for opaline the result would be: 12.5% cobalt normal 12.5% cobalt opaline - both sexes 12.5% violet cobalt normal 12.5% violet cobalt opaline 12.5% cobalt spangle 12.5% cobalt opaline spangle 12.5% violet cobalt spangle 12.5% violet cobalt opaline spangle

Bobby is a girl

Congratulations Robyn

Beautiful cobalt violet spangle. Can't really tell the sex in these pictures

The chick is a dark green spangle. Many spangles have a spot on the back of their heads so it may not have any significance. If a normal had a spot like this it would probably mean it was split for recessive pied Cinnamon is a cinnamon (dark?) green. Can't see Marvin's wings but if he is this chicks father he must be a spangle

Didn't find pictures of all of them but here are the ones I did find Coco – Yellow face recessive pied Charlie – Spangle grey green Ma - Double Factor Spangle Tawa – Normal cobalt violet Sky & Cobo – Normal sky blue & a recessive pied blue Snow - Albino Martha – Opaline (the picture is not very clearbut probably cobalt) Fred – Spangle sky blue Snowflake – Double factor spangle Bluey – Normal cobalt Olive – opaline green Max - Type 2 yellow face sky Blue

Yes i do know the parents of the baby albino. the mother was an albino and the father was a blue spangle. in that clutch of 5 there was 1 albino, 3 blue spangle and 1 normal sky blue In that case there is a 50% chance that the albino is also spangle. If she is you could expect some spangle chicks

Spangle as well as recessive pied. I have bred a lot with these mutations combined

1: What would a green-grey cinnamon cock and albino henmake? If the cock is not split for blue, albino is not masking anyother - you'd get: 25% cinnamon green hens 25% cinnamon grey green hens 25% green cocks 25% grey green cocks 2: What would a sky blue yellow-faced cock and green-greycinnamon hen make? If the hen is not split for blue & the cock in not split for cinnamon you'd get: Green & Grey greens of both sexes. If the hen is split for blue you'd also get grey, blue,yellow face grey & yellow face blue 3: What would a sky blue yellow-faced cock and normal greyhen make? Assuming the grey & the yellow face are both singlefactor you'd get: 25% blue 25% grey 25% yellow face blue 25% yellow face grey The shade of the blue would depend on the dark factor of thehen but there would be no mauve And most important of them all!!!! 4: What would a sky blue spangle hen and blue yellow-facedcock make? Assuming the yellow face is single factor 25% blue spangle 25% yellow face blue spangle 25% blue normal 25% yellow face blue normal In all cases if the birds are carrying recessive mutations or the cocks are carrying other sex-linked mutations the outcome could be different

Congratulations Dean. Well done

Hi Stewart, Welcome Is your budgie blind in one eye?

He is grey not mauve. If you look at the cheek patches you'll see the difference. Also a mauve cannot have a sky blue parent EDIT: Whoops! Should have read all the posts before commenting

Great picture. Congratulations