This is Freebird back in August,

 

 

 

 

This is her today,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks!

She's pretty.. looks like a yellowface type II recessive pied, maybe violet or cobalt. Does she have iris rings?

She's pretty.. looks like a yellowface type II recessive pied, maybe violet or cobalt. Does she have iris rings?

 

No iris rings. What would I get if I bred her to a double factor spangle?

Single factor spangles and normals. All the babies will carry the rec. pied gene

 

if the DF spangle is yellow the babies will be green unless he carries the blue gene.

 

If he is white you will get a mix of yellowfaces and whitefaces.

Edited December 18, 200618 yr by Nerwen

Freebird is very pretty.

Single factor spangles and normals. All the babies will carry the rec. pied gene

 

if the DF spangle is yellow the babies will be green unless he carries the blue gene.

 

If he is white you will get a mix of yellowfaces and whitefaces.

 

Casper is white, with an iris ring. I was told on another budgie forum he was most likely a DF spangle so that's what I'm going by. Thanks for your reply.

 

I like Freebirds coloring so much that I'm hoping Casper's genetic input won't change them overly much. I am a total novice when it comes to budgie genetics, so I would appreciate any advice on this matter. I'm not completely sure I will even breed them. Freebird is too young at the moment and I'm hoping to move into a larger house next summer. I'm merely looking at the possibilties.

 

Thanks again.

I agree with the other site that he sounds like a DF spangle. When you match a bird as he to another but another spangle all the young will get one spangle gene making them single factors. Sorry about the word normal in the last post what I meant is they will only show spangle not any pied gene unless Casper is split for it.

 

As to the colouring when the bird is all white you can't tell if he has any dark factor genes. One makes a cobalt like Freebird two make muave and none makes a sky-blue. So it would be unknown how dark the babies would appear.

Thanks for the reply Nerwen. You've been very helpful.