So if you breed a YF2 bird to a normal blue will babies be YF2 or YF1?

 

And what if you breed a YF1 to a normal blue?

Edited July 17, 200619 yr by Shawna

Here is an interesting article about YF2 http://www.birdhobbyist.com/parrotcolour/peter/yface01.html

 

Now what I am getting from Daz is that the suffision not evenly spread is not accepted in the show ring but if it is evenly spread with no splotching it is accepted but it would still be a YF2 yes?

So if you breed a YF2 bird to a normal blue will babies be YF2 or YF1?

 

And what if you breed a YF1 to a normal blue?

 

the YF 2 gene is dominant over th YF 1 gene.

 

The YF gene is dominant to the blue gene.

 

 

The YF can be a df which mean's all babies from a normal blue match will be SF yf.

These SF yf's can have both YF babes or normal blue babies.

This thread has been interesting. When I first brought home my new bird, Smudge, I had absolutely no idea what colour he was...my only other budgie having been a normal green (but still beautiful) bird...hence he aquired the name Smudge! From this forum I judged him to be a type II and someone also told me he is an opaline.

 

He seems to have changed colour considerably in the 2 months he has been with us.

 

 

This is him a few days after I got him. He was very blue at that time, with the green "smudges" being mostly at the top of his chest. His cere was also rather pink so we were unsure whether to call him he or she

 

 

Here he is last week and he is practically all over turquoise (and pretty much certainly a he)! He has two distinctly blue patches just under his blue cheek patches and his tail is quite blue too. Nonetheless he has changed colour quite a lot! Is this a thing that happens to most type IIs? Do you think he will carry on changing at each moult?