I know you can color feed canaries to achieve a red canary, is it possible to do the same with Budgies?

Like I said a very dumb question but I was wondering anyway!!! (Laughing out loud)!

I believe the colour feeding of canaries is used just to enhance or richen the colour that is already there....not so much to change it from one colour to another .

I think it is lypochromes which make the red canari red, but in psittacine birds, it is carotenoids. Budgies only have the yellow carotenoid, not the red and it cannot be enhanced by colour feeding.

 

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