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Thankyou so much! I am so excited to see their babies. I like a little mystery too!

So what would happen with these two?

What about spinach?

i didnt understand what you exactly meant there. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2463/385313...ee4192263_o.jpg This is the frontal of the pied hen. Sorry that was rather a large typo...... What I meant to say was 1 blue and 1 yf blue together gives you 50% chance normal blues and 50% yf blues..... The picture helped..... sort of....... she is a yf blue but I still can't tell if she is skyblue, cobalt (sky I think) but definitely a yf dominant pied (she might be a double factor dominant pied too - in which case all babies from this pair will be dominant pied. If you get any normal babies then she is only single factor dominant pied). After looking at both pics I am now not sure that the hen IS cinnamon - might just be the pictures. Are her markings (stripes on head and neck) brown in colour or are they grey? It turns out that her stripes are a grey color. What I am trying for are some YF blues from this pair. If I would get YF blues, what would the blue color look like in their bodies? ( spread out, pied looking, or?) Does double factor mean that the babies will basically all look like her, kind of patchy? Her color isnt really blue, its actually green looking.

i didnt understand what you exactly meant there. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2463/385313...ee4192263_o.jpg This is the frontal of the pied hen.

What would be the coutcome of this pair? Im not even sure of what color mutation the yellow is. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3478/385313..._6d7180f5e8.jpg

the greywing is a green greywing. Is there any chance that I could get YF???

Wow Genericblue, howwww do I get that yellow, blueish greenish, colored budige that you have in the pictures for your signature? That is my FAVORITE color!!

What kind of offspring can I expect from a mating of these two colors. The greywing being the cock and spangle being the hen.. Thanks!

wowee, I would reallly like to know too! I love your pied! I think you got.....all yellows, withhh.... blue tails! :hi:

Thanks! She laid her second egg yesterday. Phew! Im so excited! I was worried because she had kind odd squat and the vent feathers were fluffed and her bottom was looking a bit more swollen than normal. But so far, so good!

My hen laid an egg the day before yesterday at around 6 pm. Its today, 10 pm and not another egg... could she be egg bound??

Mite protectors do not work...they are harmful to birds. If you see your birds have mites you treat them with an appropriate product. Here is info on mite protectors The "Mite Protectors" are usually small disc shaped containers designed to hang on the side of a bird's cage. The discs contain chemicals that release a fume to ward off mites, fleas, and other parasites -- but the fumes can potentially be harmful to the very thing you are trying to protect: your bird! Birds have very sensitive and specialized respiratory systems, and the fumes given off by these Mite Protectors can be harmful or even fatal to them. In fact, these products can pose just as big a health risk to pet birds as cigarette smoke, aerosol sprays, or non-stick cookware. If you fear that your bird is experiencing a problem with mites or any other sort of parasite, the best thing to do is to schedule an appointment with an avian vet as soon as possible. Keep your pet healthy and happy by forming a good relationship with your vet and doing plenty of research on the bird products you are interested in before you use them. To breed successfully, you need just the two in one cage with their nestbox and no other birds. You will have eggs smashed and chicks killed by other birds especially the other hens you have in there, wanting the nestbox partway through the breeding, and also you will have young budgies who are too young to breed starting to breed simply by the mere presence of a nestbox. I'm going to go ahead and take out the protector. I really feel bad now that I used those! About the nesting box in the cage. All of my birds are at breeding age so at least we don't have to worry about that. I'm going to take the other pair that I want to breed out and put them in another cage. The rest of the birds havn't paired up or anything and aren't seeming hostile or wanting the nest box for themselves. I think my other birds(minus the other pair that i want to breed) don't like eachother enough to pair up We'll see! I'd like to breed my albino and see what I get.

I seee. So I should probably take that out, eh? What do I do to protect them from parasites? I do have them all in the same cage. It seems like they're getting along well. The other birds get curious about the nest box but aren't intrusive.

Hmmm. I seeee. That bit of blue under his tail still gives me some hope of some babies/chicks other than green We'll see!

http://i545.photobucket.com/albums/hh363/w.../budgies1-1.jpg ^ Albino, spangle, greywing, pied http://s545.photobucket.com/albums/hh363/w...wu/budgies1.jpg ^ two pieds and spangle hen and greywing http://s545.photobucket.com/albums/hh363/w...wu/budgies2.jpg ^Mauve? colored hen I noticed that the cock has some blue under his tail. Does this mean that they all might not be green series chicks? :sad: Green is a nice color, but I really like variety

Hope it works.. http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=4...p=inline&zw In this picture you can see the greywing cock and the hen next to hime. I didn't notice the blue under his tail until now... You can also see the blue spangle at the bottom left corner. annnnnnd you can see my albino (maybe cock) he has a pretty blue sheen to him. http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=4...disp=thd&zw Here you can see the pieds, its hard to tell which one is the paired cock, but theyre practially twins. http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=4...p=inline&zw Laaaassstly, here's a picture of the mauve? colored hen that i want to breed with the greywing. :thumbs_down:

I should have them pretty soon! It was kind of hard to get good pictures because there are a lot of toys in their cage :thumbs_down:

Thanks! Im also going to breed my green greywing cock with my kind of mauve colored hen. Maybe I will get like green/yellow headed babies? I'll get a picture.

I have a hen and what I believe (an was told by the breeder) to be a spangle , she is a dark blue. I also have a blue and white pied cock. They just laid their first egg yesterday, what kinds of colors/patterns do you think I could get??