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No visible iris ring, i would say dark eyed clear. All spangle double factors that i have seen have had visible iris rings.

I would pick him to be a cinnamon spangle lightgreen.

Hello Dibba, must agree, nice crests and both male. Who's blood line are they? If you wish to learn more about breeding them, do a google search for George Clarke's PE theory. It is the most current theory with the most accurate outcomes so far. Still has a few holes in it but closest to actual results over a large number of pairings at the moment.

Had a quick look at my Exhibition Budgerigar Birdroom calendar, there is a BRASEA auction in NSW on10th June, if you check the BRASEA website you should find all the details listed. I think Bobby Budgie from BRASEA may actually be a forum user, if so he will more than likely post the required details.

If in doubt as to poorly marked lacewing or marked albino, catch bird and spread tail feathers, if lacewing will have neutral or lightbrown/cinnamon central tail feathers. If albino will have white. You can compare to your other albinos if still not sure. This check works with all lacewings, white or yellow and all inos, albino or lutino. Hope this helps to clear up identification.

With the mentioned pairing, the Texas clearbody acts like a normal and the lacewing works to the sex linked theory. It is not uncommon for exhibition breeders of clearbody's to use lacewings in the clearbody breeding program in a similar fashion to using inos to assist with vibrant body colour, they can see the quality of markings, depth of mask, shape of spots ect, which is something you can have difficulty with when dealing with inos.

I would try citric acid in the drinking water. 1gram to the litre for 3 or 4 days. The citric acid will acidify the gut and urinary/bowel tract making it very unpleasant for any bacteria that could be causing this type of wet staining droppings.

Hello Maddy, Are you trimming vent feathers when pairing? Sometimes the extra feather length and bulk of show type birds can get in the way of a successfull mating.

Hello Daniel-11, Have you clipped your birds wings or plucked feathers? None of them have flight feathers, that i could see in your photos, which is unusual even if in a moult and could be an indication of a problem requiring treatment.

In addition to the responses above I have found that when you open the nest and handle the chicks the young hens tend to be very vocal and possibly even try to bite where as young cocks tend to be quiet and you could almost say timid. This is not a hard and fast rule, but in conjunction with above information could help to sex chicks quite early.

I think you may find that the mum is actually a clearflight dominant pied, this would allow the chick to have the same back of head spot and i would expect it to also have clear flight feathers.

I think you will find that DEC is short for Dark Eyed Clears and has nothing to do with December breeding.

Hi Finnie, Yes I know People study genetics. They were at it long before I started back in the 50's & a mathematical prediction is still only an educated guess. Your best bet would be to breed with this pair till you have enough offspring, say 100. Then you'l be able to make your own predictions. Yours B. J. It is not just an educated guess. It is a mathematical probability. A pair normal budgies would only have to produce one chick of a recessive mutation to prove that they were both split for that recessive mutation. Once the presence of a mutation is proven predictions of the outcome from a pair can be made I would think that 90% of show Breeders,would be breeding to set lines & keeping away from,minor breeds & never give Genetics,a second thought. I think you will find that the 90% of show breeders give a lot more thought to genetics than they realise. Large round spots, depth of mask, clarity of wing markings, directional feathering ect, all genetically managed, that is why they stick to certain lines because they know that genetically these lines produce what they are looking for. Then they use prepotent genetics to introduce desired features. Just not so much thought about effects and workings of minor variety genetics.

G'day Bren, If ring is orange the bird was rung with 2012 rings meaning it was rung sometime after september 2011. The x before the 2 is simply a secret mark that changes from year to year, this identifies the bird as being bred by a registered budgerigar society member. These ring are required on birds bred with the intension of showing them.

G'day funkypanda, Saw an idea you may be able to copy or adapt. Was used to protect finches from currawongs on a bush block. It was a basic frame structure with 12mm square bird wire over it much like a large bird cage but with 2 large barn type doors on one of its long edges to allow the bird cage to be placed inside keeping your birds out of reach of any predators. Same theory as double wiring an aviary.