friend of mine has dark-eyed clear yellow, and the hen is lutino.

budgies they had a clutch of eggs & only 1 egg hatched what is the chance of this only baby being white?

 

 

this Is the family see the chick

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

he looks to be all white are our eyes playing tricks on us??

 

 

 

thanks

Kathy

Edited October 10, 200420 yr by kathy5

well I would argee with you there that s/he looks to be white but then I thought the lutino came about once all the green had been breed out of the bird. and a white bird was when all the blue was breed out.

 

So to me I wouldn't think the two yellow birds would have any genes for blue in them. I guess you will just have to wait a bit longer.

edit: I just read my gene book and it said you need the blue gene to remove the yellow and the lutino gene to remove the grey pigments to get an Albino.

 

I'm not at all sure of clear-eyes but maybe he was split and still held the blue gene?

Edited October 10, 200420 yr by nerwen

if the birds were split blue then you can get albino

please explain split for blue? if I gave you the baby's grand parents would this help?

wow i dont know about genetics, but s/he sure is a cutie!

DEFINITION OF THE WORD "SPLIT."

When we say that a bird is "split" a certain colour or colours, we mean that it itself possesses the hidden power, when suitably mated, of producing a certain percentage of young of that colour over a fair number of matings. The bird itself possesses the colour factor corresponding to the "split" colour, and it may or may not be necessary for the bird to which it is mated to possess that factor also.

It should be noted that all green birds which are "split white" (the word green is here used comprehensively to cover all green birds from olives to greywing light greens, etc.), can, when suitably mated, produce blues, yellows, and whites. For this reason the green/white bird is named by some people green/blue, yellow-white.

The word "blue" coming after olive green or dark green must be taken to cover all the blue series, i.e. skyblue, cobalt, and mauve. Olive green/blues can only produce cobalts and mauves.

 

hope this helps

One of the males from my second clutch looked white while he was in the nest box, but once he reached about 5 weeks he was definitely a yellow bird. Now that he is going through his first moult, he is looking even more yellow than before. Maybe as that chick ages, he will look more yellow?

You know, the more I look at those cute pictures, I notice on my computer monitor that it looks like he has some yellow above the cere in the third picture and across the back in the second. Does anyone else see it?

yeah now that you say that, I can. In the third is stands out quite a bit. But is that because of the yellow/orange cloth under him/her? I love looking at these picture, and I can't wait for my babies to start to look like that

yup - when i went back and looked i could see it too.

more of jamie are you sick of him yet?!?!

his aunt just had 7 good eggs so babies are looking for good homes.....

 

 

 

if you look closey you can see a light ting of blue on my belly

 

 

 

 

can you believe that my mom & dad are both yellow???

OH HOW CUTE!!!! and how in the world did you get him to lie on his back? he's adorable... i want one like him!

yay I'm so gald he did turn out to be white

 

Oh he is a cutie.

 

And I love the pics of him upside down.

Kathy5 come on,tell us your secrets,how on earth do you get them in these poses! I'm still convinced it's superglue or do you have magic powers! !!!

 

Julie

haha nice budgie

 

i think im gonna start posting pictures of all my budgies