Posted July 12, 200717 yr Greetings all, from cold and wet Melbourne! Just thought I would say Hi after joining, wanting to get back into talking about my budgies with those who share the same passion as I. I currently have 24 budgies, including 7 chicks from this year, and will post pics when I get a chance on the home computer. Oh, and I have a husband that currently looks like Wolverine . . . Talk to you all laterz, Kylie, Gary, and the Feathered Flock :oliveb::budgiedance::ausb::budgiedance::budgiedance::budgiedance::budgiedance:
July 12, 200717 yr Hi Kylie :ausb: happy to have you here, and looking forward to your pictures :oliveb:
July 12, 200717 yr Oh, and I have a husband that currently looks like Wolverine . . . :oliveb: Dont we all!!!! Welcome and hope to see some pics soon.
July 12, 200717 yr Hi Kylie Can't wait to see your photos too. PS: Can someone tell me what does it mean when your husband looks like Wolverine :ausb: :oliveb: , thanks :budgiedance: Edited July 12, 200717 yr by Zebra
July 12, 200717 yr Author okay, time to show some pics of my feathered family. . . This is Fallow. Not an original name, but the best I could think of at the time. Jezza - a sky blue and white spangle budgie named after as ex-Carlton AFL player, Alex Jesaulenko. Emerald - Again, not original, but was going through a time of naming via colour/gemstone. Cobalt - cobalt colour, dominant pied. Stoney - still not 100% sure of the mutation, perhaps some sort of mauve with dark factor, because as far as I know, the Slate mutation isn't available in Australia. He is a deep bluestone colour. Olive - She is actually a grey-green. Lavendar - one of my grandmother's first chicks a few years ago. Pretty sure he's a he, and a mauve recessive pied with almost symmetrical pied markings on both wings. Sunshine - Double factor spangle. Fluoro - one of my first budgies, and currently the oldest in the aviary. He is a light green spangle opaline. Wriggles - Fluoro's son, also a light green spangle opaline. Cheese - an adoptee, and a recessive pied that I believe to be a yellowface blue type II. Currently 'going out' with Wriggles, and together they are parents to Fuji, Wriglet and Moody Blue. Jerri - a sky blue cinnamon, who likes invading other hen's nests and so is confined to a cage during the breeding season. Squirt - a Type II Yellowface albino. Crazy bird who loves preening your eyebrows. . . . enough said. Male, I think. Rossi - normal grey. Another bird that likes preening your eyebrows. Topaz - he was given to me for free by a breeder as he never learned to fly, but he still thinks he can. He is a sky blue spangle opaline. Charlie - a grey-green budgie, and my husband's bird, taught by him. . . .enough said! okay, that's the adults - now for this year's chicks Youngest to oldest in this picture - Moody Blue (Cobalt), Wriglet (Light Green) and Fuji (Light Green). chicks from Cheese and Wriggles. All the chicks are spangle opaline. Mumbles and Snuggles - Mumbles is an opaline, and Snuggles a spangle opaline. Sprinter and Shadow - the youngest of the chicks. Sprinter is an opaline, and looks to be female, and Shadow has normal wing markings. Mumbles, Snuggles, Sprinter and Shadow all have the same mother (Olive) but because of the colony breeding situation, and the outcome of the colours/mutations of the chicks, it is a little hard to determine who the father/s are . . . As for piccies of the husband - might have to wait a little longer until I get them up on Photobucket, but jusy imagine what Hugh Jackman looks like in the X-Men movies . . .heaps of hair, muttonchop sideburns.... Edited July 13, 200717 yr by Kylie Chappell
July 12, 200717 yr Absolutely gorgeous birds you have, looks like a decent little tribe of friendly ones too. Love the little grey chicks at then end VERY cute (and cobalt and stoney!!)
July 13, 200717 yr Hi Kylie. I hope you enjoy the site you have some great looking birds. I had to change some of your pictures to links becuase they were over the board limits of 450 pxl. Cobalt looks fantastic - I have a soft spot for pied. Stoney - You can only get a mauve with 2 dark factors (the max one bird can get, one from each parent) Lavendar - He is too bright to be mauve, he would be either a cobalt or maybe violet. Cheese - The yellow looks to even for a yellowface I would lean towards an olive bird. If he was yellowface then i would expect a yellow face before a white face baby. As to the grey babies the dad has to be a blue based bird and a spangle. Edited July 13, 200717 yr by Nerwen
July 13, 200717 yr Author Yeah, it was late last night when I posted these. Going to go back and resize @ Photobucket . . then try and put them back in the post. Re: Stoney. What would be your guess as to his mutation? Lavendar I believe to be a violet. The picture doesn't do him justice - he is a real nice purple colour. And in the case of the babies, there was only one blue spangle male in the aviary at the time (Jezza), but also a green that I believe to be split for blue (Wriggles), as his mother was a cobalt opaline, and has thrown out a cobalt spangle opaline chick. this was the reason I thought cheese was YF blue.
July 13, 200717 yr Stoney I would think either a mauve or a mauve violet. And in the case of the babies, there was only one blue spangle male in the aviary at the time (Jezza), but also a green that I believe to be split for blue (Wriggles), as his mother was a cobalt opaline, and has thrown out a cobalt spangle opaline chick. this was the reason I thought cheese was YF blue. I'm simply working on the odds of getting 4 grey babies from a pair a green/blue and grey green is rare but of cause it can happen I would have expected at least one green to appear. Matched to a a blue bird the chance of green is less giving the grey a better chance of appearing as it did in this nest. Oh and great work with the pictures It is some much easier to read and view the pictures together.
July 13, 200717 yr Author {I'm simply working on the odds of getting 4 grey babies from a pair a green/blue and grey green is rare but of cause it can happen I would have expected at least one green to appear. Matched to a a blue bird the chance of green is less giving the grey a better chance of appearing as it did in this nest.} That's what I thought, very slim chance, though. What about the possibility of a dominant grey? I've heard their not available in Australia, but can that come through in the grey-green, and is there the possibility that Jezza could be split for grey if the blue is dominant? And the 3 Spangle opaline chicks from the other nest. . . .all carrying Dad's mutation (of course) could any be split for Recessive pied (By The Way, would LOVE to pair Cheese and Lavendar. . .or Cobalt and Jerri. . . By the pics, I suppose you figured the Spangle opaline is my favourite mutation, the less black on the wings the better! Grandma reckons Topaz looks like a cloud. . . .
July 13, 200717 yr Grey is dominant to the blue gene. You need the blue gene to show as grey. If you don't have the blue gene then you get a grey-green. Yes all of Cheese and Wriggles babies are split for recessive pied. (By The Way, would LOVE to pair Cheese and Lavendar. . .or Cobalt and Jerri. . . Is there a reason you can't? The two recessive pied would be good to get more. And as I said before LOVE dominant pieds like Cobalt. With Cabalt and Jerry you would get pieds and normal blues (sky blue or cobalts) the males of the pair will be split cinnamon and opaline. Edited July 13, 200717 yr by Nerwen
July 14, 200717 yr Hiya Kylie, welcome to the BBC forum. Your flock is beautiful, I especially like Jezza, Cobalt and Fluoro, but they are all lovely. Feathers.
July 16, 200717 yr wow beautiful bdugies! My favorites are Sunshine, Fluoro & his son. His son looks really nice. Who did you pair him to? Edited July 16, 200717 yr by Joey
July 17, 200717 yr Author Sunshine hasn't had a mate yet, but I would really like to pair him off with Olive, mainly for size reasons. Fluoro was bonded with a cobalt opaline hen named (what else but!) Opal, who has sadly since passed away. paired with They produced one chick - Wriggles I'm sure it was love at first sight when he met his futune 'wife' when he was just 6 weeks of age! His wife was named Cheese, and so far they have has one clutch of 3 chicks, Moody Blue, Wriglet, and Fuji. As for naming the chicks, Moody Blue was giving smooches when she decided I needed a lip piercing and wouldn't let go, Wriglet is the spitting image of his father, Wriggles, at the same age, personality and all, and as for Fuji, let's just say it involves a reverse cycle air conditioner. . . .
