This first photo is of a young January 2007 born, Lutino cock, with a Cobalt Opaline hen he sold me to go with the Spangle Violet Cock.

 

This is the Violet Spangle cock that he suggested to mate with the Opaline Cobalt hen to breed Violets. The hen & cock don’t look as dark as in reality, as I had to use flash.

 

 

This is one of the three Texas Clear Body’s, an Opaline Yellow [i think]… I was mostly interested in getting this mutation. He is young Feb 2007 born, just getting his adult feathers. He’s a bit light in colour & not very heavy wing markings, I think because he has been bred from Lutinos; I have a nice “show type” Normal Grey Green hen I will mate him with. I also got an older TCB cock, 2006 born, nice colour, type not so good [not pictured]. I will mate him to a normal Grey Green hen I have. And a young hen Feb/March born 2007, I need to buy a good Luntino cock for her as the Lutino cock I bought is her brother…all similar colour, photos of the two later ones didn’t turn out. So all photos are of the one young male.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the same TCB young cock & an Opaline Dark Green cock born Dec 2006…[he called it Violet Green] I will use it to try to breed Violets The Opaline is a much darker green than the flash shows also.

 

 

I tried something different but my pictures are not showing, is that because the size is too big for the site?

 

PS. At last I got it ...if at first you don't succeed.

Edited July 10, 200718 yr by Norm

I want to see them but the pics not showig.

If you right click on IPB image & select view image it seems to open up, but I wanted them to open like normal, the only thing different I did was resize the photos myself to 450 pixels & didn’t use the Photo Bucket resize to email, could this be the problem? As I was trying to get a little bit more detail in the photos.

doesn't even give me that option Norm, maybe make them into links?

Changed it to links Elly, if someone knows what I did wrong, I would be grateful if they advise me.

You have simply given the http link to the pictures rather than the link to the picture itself. If you go back to where you get small thumbnails of the pictures and copy the bottom line and paste in a post they will show up like the other pictures.

 

The Clearbody looks good the markings on the wings are a bit washed out but the body is a nice even colour.

okay I clicked on the first link and it came up with the picture so I right clicked viewed properties, copy and pasted the link and added [ img] before the link and then [ /img] after the link the problem is I can't see any of the other pictures it keeps directing me to photobucket

odd they worked for me before

 

okay with a bit of study I got them to link correctly. Norm any issues and feel free to PM me for help on future pictures.

Edited July 10, 200718 yr by Nerwen

Your Lutino cock is so bright. he looks like the sun. He is gorgeous

Nice looking birds..

I like them all, but the lutino boy is really gorgeous

awesome job Nerwen...

 

I love the Texas Clearbody he is gorgeous. Congrats on your new addition they are all beautiful.

The breeder rang again last night he has sorted out another Texas Clear Body cock for me & maybe some more birds if I like...Normals & Lutino. I'm going on Thursday to see him, I will try to get some good photos of the other Clear Bodies. Three TCB cock & 1 hen, I think that's a good basis for my TCB stud. Pity I have so many cock birds that I've bred myself, a few hens wouldn't go astray...I seem to breed so many males & just a few females...with my own children I had three daughters & no boys...strange stuff...(Laughing out loud).

Edited July 10, 200718 yr by Norm

Haha, It never seems to work out how you want. Like with my first clutch of babies I was hoping for at least 4 and in a miriad of different colours. What did I get? 3 babies and all exactly the same colour, exceptone was cinnamon.

And out of the 8 babies that I bred I ended up with 4 yellowface type 2 spangles that are all basically the same colour, they were all cobalt. (I actually ended up with 6 yf 2 spangles but the other two are opalines and one is a violet). Such is the way of nature, completely unpredictable and teasing.

These are the other two Texas Clear Bodies photos, the first one the 2006 born cock, I think he has the best colour & it carries through the wing, need a bit of breeding to improve his body shape. At the moment his tail feathers are broken.

 

 

These are two photos of the young hen Feb/March born 2007, she wouldn’t cooperate & stay still for her photo…she has better wing markings, but has some green through her wings, not the yellow of the body.

 

 

 

 

Haha, It never seems to work out how you want. Like with my first clutch of babies I was hoping for at least 4 and in a miriad of different colours. What did I get? 3 babies and all exactly the same colour, exceptone was cinnamon.

And out of the 8 babies that I bred I ended up with 4 yellowface type 2 spangles that are all basically the same colour, they were all cobalt. (I actually ended up with 6 yf 2 spangles but the other two are opalines and one is a violet). Such is the way of nature, completely unpredictable and teasing.

 

Those YF2 Spangles are nice but, I especially like the Opaline ones, I have bred quite a few this year.

Edited July 11, 200718 yr by Norm

Gorgeous something about the Clearbody's that make them look so clean and bright.

These two look pretty big and long

your TCB's are absolutely stunning :hap:

Thanks guys for all your nice comments. I got 11 more Budgies yesterday, I got one more TCB, this one is Normal, not Opaline like the others & I think it might be the best looking one, Picture soon.

congrats, I can't wait to see the new birds pics

This is the same TCB young cock & an Opaline Dark Green cock born Dec 2006…[he called it Violet Green] I will use it to try to breed Violets The Opaline is a much darker green than the flash shows also.

 

 

Is this (the Opaline Dark Green) an example of the grey factor at work? I've read that it's responsible for the intensity of yellows and appearance of dark violet where it occurs. Most of my recessive pieds have had intense yellows and the whites are often violet. I also have a few dark violet normals and an opaline dark green hen very similar in colour to your cock Norm. I've long suspected I've had a strong grey factor line through most of my birds, but this is the first I've seen a link between violets and Opaline Dark Green.

 

Curious,

KathyW.

KathyW, I wonder if you are confusing Grey factor with Dark factor, I think this Opaline Dark Green, has Dark factor, I think with the Grey factor when that effects a Green series bird you get a Grey Green & in the Blue a Grey bird. The number of Dark factors effects the intensity of the colour of birds, like in a pure Yellow bird the Yellow will be more intense in a bird with 2 dark factors, than a bird with 1 dark factor & one with no Dark factor.

I’m no expert on the Violet factor, I think that’s another separate factor to the Dark factor but I could be wrong. Maybe someone else will enlighten us.

I just got the breeding of that Dark Green Opaline cock, yesterday, his mother was a Mauve Opaline split Violet & father a Dark Green split Violet…that’s what the breeder said, but I’m not sure if a bird can be split Violet. The mothers mother was a Violet Opaline & the fathers father a Dark Green split Violet.

This is my new Texas Clear Body Normal cock, I think he is better type than the Opalines.

 

 

 

 

This is a couple of photos of a new Grey Green Spangle cock that I also got.

 

 

Yes you can have birds split for violet factor. My skyblue cock is . he appears sky blue, but is carrying violet.

Norm the violet factor works exactly like the grey factor where it is an added color in both blue and green birds. It is also a dominant factor and you can have a single factor or a double factor violet bird.