Today I was just looking into my cage and I didnt see an iris ring on Emjay. I was wondering because you guys said hes dominant pied but he didnt have iris rings. An hour later I looked at him again and there was an iris ring. Then I checked the other side and there was no iris eing.

He is an odd-eyed pied. Dominant pied split to recessive pied - thats what that mean right???

 

 

 

Left Eye

 

 

 

 

Right Eye

 

 

 

 

oh my god!!! I dont get it !! why are two of those pictures so huge???

I resized them all the sam way!

 

 

 

Sorry Mods :budgiedance:

 

 

 

 

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Now the pictures all appear the same size - i dont know whats happening.??

Edited May 25, 200718 yr by Marlony

no it doesn't mean he is split to recessive it is common in double factor pieds, I believe one of Rainbow's was like that :budgiedance:. He is handsome.

oh, I didnt know that. Funny I never noticed that he only had one iris ring.

Edited May 25, 200718 yr by Marlony

What a lovely bird. I think it is neat when they have odd eyes.

He's very handsome!!!

I have a thought that you can have a bird that is Dominant pied & Recessive pied at the same time [visual] but it would be hard to tell which markings were because it was dominant & which from the Recessive. E.g. like you can have an Opaline Recessive Pied. Or an Opaline, Spangle, Pied. There are many visual combinations. Being split for Recessive wouldn't change his eye colour. My thoughts also are that eye colour can be different on any pied, the same way that they have different areas on the body, different colours, when this occurs in the eye area they can differ.

Edited May 25, 200718 yr by Norm

thanks guys, and well said Norm. But somewhere I read that if a budgie has one iris rings and one eye without an iris ring, mots of the time one of the parents was dominant pied, and the other one recessive pied. Is that possible?

Edited May 25, 200718 yr by Marlony

Norm I see what you are saying :hap:

 

Dominant pieds can be split to recessive pied but they can't show it both visually. Not that I am aware of, I haven't read anything like it.

 

The oddness and I agree with Norm is from the pied gene just as they can have throat spots on one side and not another, Pretty was like that.

Its fairly common in double factor dominant pieds. Both Cheeta and I have birds like that that are DF dominant pieds. :hap:

Yep, my little Spirit is an 'odd eyed' pied too.. hehe.. he's a little charmer.

 

And as with both dom pied and recessive pied showing, that's not possible since they use the same allele, whereas you can get spangle (dominant gene) and recessive pied showing together as they use different alleles so therefore it is possible to show up together.