this is just my thoughts but what if? what if somebody bred a red budgie? i know some of you are saying it will never happen. think of all of the new combinations you could have, as well as pink and orange mutations. canaries dont have red in their colour scheme but someone did (not using food dye) by crossing a canary to a red hooded siskin. what if someone crossed a rosa bourke to a budgie? i think one day probably not in our lifetime there will be red, pink and orange budgies.

another colour is brown. you would think we would have a brown colour now because we have brownwings. the brown on the wings one day could spread like the black has for the black coloured budgies.

what do everyone think?

Timbo,If you can breed a Red Budgie.The sky will be the limit,for what you can charge for your information,on how you breed it.

Yes we all dream about a red budgie or a total black budgie ( this is getting closer but not fully there)

 

To make a hybrid you need two very close species and I don't believe there is one close enough for budgies. The other thing is hybrids are usually infertile.

Yes we all dream about a red budgie or a total black budgie ( this is getting closer but not fully there)

 

I think the closest you can get to this (at the moment) is the black faced anthracite (but can't get either mutation in Australia).

 

Anthracite : http://www.budgieplace.com/c_anthracite.html

 

Black Face : http://www.budgieplace.com/c_blackface.html

 

I was talking to a friend tonight, and he told me that when his father bred budgies years ago, he bred an albino that had pink feathers under the wings . . . :blush:

Edited August 8, 200717 yr by Nerwen
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Yes that would be but as yet one has not been bred only those two gene separately.

I had an albino hen once who had a pinkish "sheen", and a Gouldian who went completely black!

 

I guess it's just a matter of time before someone tinkers with budgie genes to introduce the colour. Theoretically I guess anything is possible if you can graft a fish gene into a strawberry! (Did I mention I'm going to grow my own heritage, non-GM strawberries from now on?)

 

I prefer nature's lottery - unpredictability can be far more exciting :-)

 

Cheers,

KathyW.

What about a white winged Light green?

another i would like to see, read about it on net somewhere, white-face greens