*Nerwen*

welcome to the place you birds look great and I think I'min love with all I love your sig pi with them all lined up looking like drowned rats. It's so cute. How long have you had them?

It can be just play but budgies will start courtshp behaviour early in life. The casing is a sign of courting. THe male will dah long the branch and touch beaks with the hen athen run away again. He will sing a lot to her. Both will groom each other. As the bond ets stronger she will take food from him and start to follow him from banch to branch. And the biggest sign to see is her dipping into a 'u' type shape inviting him to mount.

Tazzy is a recessive pied and they have a plum coloured eye, so no your not mad you are seeing it, this doesn't mean that she is carrying the ino gene. I wish it was that easy to tell (of cuase you can't tell at all what budgies are split for)

Woot, congratulations

*Grins widely* isn't it such a lovey feeling to know what your looking at, intead of just a 'pretty bird'.

Please be patient, you post comes up on a new post since last visit and will not me missed. It's is stated in the rules not to double post, exceptions are made for important posts (such as loss of bird after asking for help) You will get with these two recessive pied babies some yellow face some white faced, you might even get some violets, or visual violets which look like cobalt. This is if your hen has two violet genes. All opalines you get from this clutch will be females.

sounds like male but in the pictures the cere looks more brown to me than pink and the white ring around the nostrils points to female. But the colour in real life is better to judge than photos. Pink and Purple coloured cere means a young male, BUT recessive pied males do not get the normal blue cere when mature. So you will not be able to tell the correct age of this one.

great shot

:(Laughing out loud): I was expecting a yellow budgie with the name. he is a cutie. I'm glad to see he has a correct wing clip. Are you going to keep him clipped or let it grow out in time? He is looking very much at home

Yeah I would love to read it, what was the book again..budgerigar world got it I know the could store it for a while but never expected for that long.

yellowface 1 and/or 2 Hath

I am SO SO SO glad you got her back. ridicule or condemnation??? NEver, this was an accident, pure and simple. It was not your fault and you did all you could to find her until she found her won way back. It was from your training from the box that made the rescue work.

Seafoam is in fact an incorrect term used in some places for yellowfaces. You lost me here, what bit are you talking about?

yep that's right he body is what most folks call aqua which is the yellow washing all over, a type one will have a clearly blue body and yellow face. Then there is the type 2 with a patchy bleed of yellow in the body of the bird.

how many days have they been coming out of the box. I woudl think to leave them until your sure the babies are feeding themselfs (normally takes 2 more weeks) then you don't have to worry about mum stopping.

I say type 2 for Wylie. He isn't a rainbow that includes pied and clearwing, which he isn't. These are better shots of Tazzy than the last post. Yes she (yes I think you ahve a her here) is a recessive pied. With you saying she looks almost violet in real life mean you could have a visual violet. Meaning one gene violet. Also the markings do look brown to me which means cinnamon.

Can we get some updated shots? Dilute is recessive and both parent can carry it but looking at that shot it's a bit hard to tell.

I only give them the leafy bits.

You might be lucky and get flights on both wings.

nice I like the second one i'm sure my lot would go crazy for it

Yeah I know egg two was a day early to try but I thought since I was bothering her already why not try it, that was anothr reason I was surpised that it seemed stronger then the first.

Rainbow carfully with just saying Dilute since that is what the third level of this gene is called. So are you thinking they are grey wings or dilute? Body colour depth shouldn't change in either greywings or clearwings, but that always doesn't happen while breeding.

OH very interesting Hath. Well I would still stand with my first comment of not letting her bother with this cutch if any are fertile it would be even a bigger wear on her body raising a second lot alone. You might have to leave her in the cage for a while so she does go back to her "nest" site to start again.

I would say Greywing for both (the markings on the wings are not that light) I would really think the white one is a recessive pied.

You know I didn't even notice that in the pictures Now I can understand why I thought the tail was so long. Keep an eye on him now, you might have to bring him in any moment so he doesn't hurt himself out in the big cage. Is he getitng any flight feathers growing through? It kinda looks like it in the first picture.