Just wondering if anyone can tell me if I will always get the same colour chicks everytime I breed the same pair of birds together or will I get a variety of colours from the 2nd clutch??

I have a blue pair of budgies that consistently produce similar clutches.......cobalts, mauves, and violet opalines. They threw me for a loop once and produced a skyblue recessive pied. So you never know whats hidden in the gene pool

I put a yellow pied with a yellow faced grey and I got one green, two yellow face grey and two normal grey. I honestly thought I would get a few yellow in there somewhere! Not to worry, they are all gorgeous!!

I agree with Karen you never know what the hidden genes are I am sure there is a number that breeders use because it is all %. Example if you breed the same pair this x amount of times you have pretty such tapped out the gene pool.

 

I would think some pairs are easier then others example when Karen breed Romeo and Juliet, I remember Nerwen saying on the 2nd clutch do you think you are going to get any thing else , so I would think the recessive mates would be easier to figure out then the ones that carry dominant, recessive and possible sex linked traits on the males.

(Laughing out loud)..youll always get different....different markings anyways

 

From my yellow faced blue type II bred to a greywing skyblue blue opaline recessive pied hen, i got normal blues, skyblues, yellow faced skyblues, yellow faced cobalt blues, skyblue opalines, cobalt opalines, yellow faced blue type I recessive pieds, yellow faced type II opaline recessive pieds, and a white faced recessive pied.... (Laughing out loud)

 

Kirby