A pair of my friends budgies had a very odd baby.

He looks like German Fallow to me, but one English Fallow Budgerigar breeder said, that this baby is definetely not a Fallow.

As the Fallow gene is recessive, I find it very weird, that half of all the fledlings looked like German Fallows.

 

Here is the baby I think is a German Fallow, but I'm not sure.

 

 

Here are the parents:

 

Father:

http://www.freewebs.com/lintumaailma/lumikki.jpg

 

Cobalt: DF Dominant Pied Clearwing SF Spangle Split to Ino.

 

Mother:

http://www.freewebs.com/lintumaailma/Kuvia%5F032.jpg

 

Cobalt: SF Spangle

 

 

Edit: Pictures changed to links as they where over the 450 x 450 pixel limit.

Edited March 28, 200718 yr by Daz

I'm not very familiar with the different "types" of fallows but it looks like a fallow seeing that the eyes are red and it is clearly not an albino. They are red in person? I did think that fallows had a diluted body color ( the blue looks as strong as the one next to it ) and brownish markings like cinnamons.

Well there is clearly a red eye. However the normal fallow gene turns the marking to brown, this bird looks to have black (possibly grey) markings. There is Ashen or Smokey Fallow that have the marking reduced to a light grey.

 

I take you know the for sure the male is split Ino and not basing the fact on these babies. The fact that this bird is a pied as well makes it harder to work out since it's covering over some points that can be looked at to work out (colour of flights, tail and such)

Here is an interesting article I picked up while doing a search scroll almost all the way down and it talks about the grey marking vs the brown. Very interesting and unquie color patterning.

is there meant to be a link?

:hap: nah I figured you could read my fingers sorry about that http://www.birdhobbyist.com/parrotcolour/terry/fallow01.html

A pair of my friends budgies had a very odd baby.

He looks like German Fallow to me, but one English Fallow Budgerigar breeder said, that this baby is definetely not a Fallow.

As the Fallow gene is recessive, I find it very weird, that half of all the fledlings looked like German Fallows.

 

Here is the baby I think is a German Fallow, but I'm not sure.

 

 

We bred this red-eyed pied cock budgie now with a normal hen, and all the babies had normal black eyes.

which means the female is probably not carrying the fallow gene or it has not been expressed since it is recessive.

he looks really cool.

A very interesting bird & very puzzling, there is no clue from it’s parents, as it must be a recessive, both parent must posses the trait for it to be shown. Unless it's a new mutation. It doesn’t look like a fallow, as others have said, as in my experience fallows wash out the blue & the black stripes on the head. I guess the fact that it’s some type of pied confuses the issue. If you were interested in genetics, if I were you I would mate it to it’s mother, then you should get birds similar to it, of both sexes, then you could out mate these to unrelated birds & establish the colour.

Edited May 17, 200718 yr by Norm