*Nerwen*

Welcome Sammy. I hope there is someone closer to you with an answer soon on where you could find a fun new friend. It might be an idea to read up on introducing a new pet to the house thread and maybe how to sex a young budgie if you are after a male. There is help in our FAQ area or do a search for threads. and welcome again

never heard of 'chocolate' before it sounds like you have a grey cinnamon or a mauve cinnamon.

You have a boy there

I didn't time it sorry just boiled it to death (maybe 2 mins) it was one of Ringo's clear eggs that she kept laying.

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Yes he is a yellowface type 2 or golden face. I would wonder about the pied since he has strong green markings on the chest and pale marks on the rest of the body. He also has a white cheek patch rather than the standard blue which is a sign of a pied or possible a spangle, although they normally have mixed cheek patches. Try really hard for a back shot.

I've done that before Bea. Set it up for their cage and found something of interest and so swapped paper so I could read it later.

Yes I agree with Macka too.

Yes Norm the ones that still have markings and colour on the body are SF spangles, they got one normal gene from a parent and one spangle gene from the other.

I closer shot of the cere would really help to tell the gender. As to the colour s/he is a yellowface type 2 recessive pied.

So what you are saying is she is totally white but you know that she has the cinnamon gene becuase of the eyes and it is being masked by the double factor spangle gene. Is this correct?

Unfortunately we can only warn once they have let the first one in and by then it is too late Bacci looks grea.

So the spaces mean it's a new word right? and are there the right number of letters for each word?

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Sorry to hear Bea, but s you say she is not having trouble moving about becuase of it and so her quality of life isn't yet damaged. Are you planning to leave her out with the flock or inside?

I'm not sure about the DF spangle cinnamon. DF are meant to be all white or all yellow. Granted I'm not 100% sure how the cinnamon reacts with the genes, s/he might only be a cinnamon with very washed out body colour and markings. Would love to see pictures later once fully grown.

:budgiedance: he looks great. As does she. Glad to see he is going well with out his sister now.

I think it was only because a few days back they had a budgie on a kids TV show having a ball outside with clipped wings and I wanted to scream at the program for sending out that bad message. Not to mention the round cage they later showed the bird in. But I have Gone

what Luck Don't you just love it when you get a surprise of the colour you where wanting And now if you want more you have a known male with the ino gene.

what cute little blobs

The two being hidden are YF cobalt opaline spangles for sure. The colour of the cheek patch might help with working out violet or not. If they are then the violet gene is carried on the dark factor. The one on top (youngest) looks to be YF sky blue opaline spangle.

Glad to see that things have progressed well.

So they are at the age of losing their baby feathers and getting the adult plumage.

Hi chirpy, it seems you have been very busy in your part of the world. Please let us know how your potty mouthed little Teapot is, and his friend (was it sky?)

Welcome Phill