Posted October 7, 200618 yr HEllo everyone... I have had Pippin for 5 months now and was wanting to know what she is!? ( i know she is a :hap: ... but) ... I am guessing there is some dilution in there ?! and she is a white base... thats as far as i have gotten!! Any help would be appreciated .. mainly so i can brag about her to my friends that haven't met her yet :hap:
October 7, 200618 yr as Losu said in the other post ( and the first picture there is great to get an idea of her wing colour) Pippin is a Cinnamon. This is when the normally black marking are lightened to brown and give the whole body a paler look to it. Which is why you think there is a form of dilute there.
October 7, 200618 yr Cinnamon is not one of the dilute family as Nerwen said. Dilute family is Greywing, Clearwing and Dilute. She is actually blue base. Here is one of my cinnamon http://www.flexi.net.au/~dwellsadsl/birds/...%20-4%20126.jpg The light doesn't do her proud. Edited October 7, 200618 yr by daz
October 7, 200618 yr a blue base!! That just goes to show that you cant believe everything you read!!! I read somewhere that there are 2 basic varieties of budgies --> those with the yellow pigment and those that lack the yellow pigment... they referred to those lacking the yellow as "white-base" and the others as "yellow-base." They then went on to say that the body feathers of both types were structured to reflect blue... and thats how you get the green/yellow and white/blue?!? So cinnamon is a COMPLETELY different gene ?! Is she a cinnamon meaning she has no dilution ? and does her paleness mean that she just has "zero" dark factor? ie: skyblue?!
October 7, 200618 yr The information you just typed is absolutely correct (I believe people have different ways of saying things). Because the lutino gene erases the green and you get a yellow bird and the ino erases the blue and you get an albino . I know what site you got it from and this is a site I refer to all the time. As for the cinnamon gene it is a sex linked gene and from what I always understand it probably is not a dilutation factor but can make the bird overall look lighter and more washed out.
October 7, 200618 yr So cinnamon is a COMPLETELY different gene ?! Is she a cinnamon meaning she has no dilution ? and does her paleness mean that she just has "zero" dark factor? ie: skyblue?! Correct
October 8, 200618 yr Because the lutino gene erases the green and you get a yellow bird and the ino erases the blue and you get an albino . As for the cinnamon gene it is a sex linked gene and from what I always understand it probably is not a dilutation factor but can make the bird overall look lighter and more washed out. No exactly correct. There is no lutino gene it is an ino gene and it removes all pigmentation acept for yellow and you get a yellow bird (lutino). The blue gene acts to remove yellow pigmentation and you have a blue bird. If the two work togeather you have ino removing all colour acept yellow and the blue gene removes the yellow to produce an albino. The cinnamon gene changes what was black to brown not diluting black to grey. The Ino and Cinnamon genes are sex linked and the blue gene is recessive. A blue base bird in a recessive pied is white and a green base bird in a recessive pied is yellow. A blue base bird that is acted on by the grey gene is Grey. A green base bird that is acted on by the grey gene is a grey green. I hope I haven't confussed any one .... or got it wrong either. Edited October 8, 200618 yr by daz
October 8, 200618 yr She looks like a greywing on my screen- no brown more like a grey/off grey?? Which causes a dilution of the blue as well. Might just be my screen showing it up though.
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