Hey all.

 

Quick question:

I understand that birds are either White base or Yellow based and can be split and have hiden genes

how can you tell without knowing their history?

Is it

1. the little patch on their face?

2. the color of their feet

I noticed that my mainly White/Blue/Grey birds have grey feet and the Yellow/Green ones have white?

 

Maybe a dumb question but I was wondering if someone could clear some light on this...

 

Thanks all

You can't tell if a bird is split for a hidden gene there is no way of knowing unless you know the history and there are still surprises. It is a theory that a small spot on the back of the head may indicate the bird is carrying the recessive pied gene but I haven't seen it documented except for cockatiels.

Hey all.

 

Quick question:

I understand that birds are either White base or Yellow based and can be split and have hiden genes

how can you tell without knowing their history?

Is it

1. the little patch on their face?

2. the color of their feet

I noticed that my mainly White/Blue/Grey birds have grey feet and the Yellow/Green ones have white?

 

Maybe a dumb question but I was wondering if someone could clear some light on this...

 

Thanks all

 

I little correction.. Basically your Budgerigars are Green base or Blue Base.

Yellow comes from the green base and white comes from the blue base.

 

Elly is right you can't tell untill you test pair them.

I noticed that my mainly White/Blue/Grey birds have grey feet and the Yellow/Green ones have white?

I find that just about everything except pieds and inos have the bluey grey feet. Although there's no rule which says this is always so. Unfortunately foot colour doesn't tell you anything about what genes they're hiding.

in a post on another forum someone said that it might be possible to find out if a budgie is split to opaline... There was a really long discussion and I think they ended up with saying that if a budgie has a little spot of body colour on their wings they are probably split to Opaline.

bea, you probably read it too did you??

Edited May 9, 200718 yr by Marlony

that was just a theory (discussion) going on there is no documenation or conclusive evidence that I have read about the opaline gene that would say they are split. This would only pertain to the male because he would need 2 opaline genes to see the mutation, the female only needs 1 opaline gene to express the mutation. As this is a sex-linked mutation.