just found this picture of a red budgie? is it a new colour or is it a wind up from april fools? would be intrested in your comments.

please if you can click on the link?

http://www.budgerigars.co.uk/forum/photoplog/index.php?n=635

 

red pigment is not found in budgies if anything it looks brown aka cinnamon and it still doesn't look healthy. I don't know this person but they may be just pulling people's legs to alter the pics.

The budgie could've had some fun with some beetroot. Or the owner could've done something either one the computer or with some sort of dye to alter the colour.

Probably one of those harmless drink crystals that eventually wears off but they shouldn't have done it. Kids dye their hair with it.

Eh!!?!? Geepers! Imagine what it does to your insides! Yoiks! What type of drink crystals?

it doesnt bear thinking about. beetroot i can understand as it it a veggie.thanks guys

Yeah I think it's just some sort of colouring... I could easily make my albino goes all orange by giving them a big dish of grated carrots.. They tend to walk around in the dish and dig around and all that therefore colouring the feathers.

Yeah I think it's just some sort of colouring... I could easily make my albino goes all orange by giving them a big dish of grated carrots.. They tend to walk around in the dish and dig around and all that therefore colouring the feathers.

 

 

I have some very lovely orange faced blue budgies right now too :ausb:

there was a thread on that forum re: red budgies about 6 months or more ago. Apparently that one was up close and personal to a mineral block (I think). The guy who owns it is a show breeder in England

That budgie is so definately dyed, some way or another. Look at the name of the picture it is 1_april.

I too was curious about this budgie so I looked around and found the original thread.

 

It was an April fools joke, the owner took some time to prepare the joke as he stated this: “fed it strawberries, cherries and pomegranities for four weeks”.

 

Some years ago I saw in several pet shops in Portugal some red, orange and pink fluorescent budgies, but unfortunately they were not fabricated using harmless vegetables or drink crystals, as the budgies ended dying from it. It was an easy and unfortunate way to sell poor quality budgies.

:fear