It's a Crested?

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Edited September 11, 200718 yr by Bea
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How interesting!! I'll be interested to see how he feathers up. :budgiedance:

father and mother are both normal budgies.

Edited September 11, 200718 yr by Dragonfly-sky

Do you know any of their parentage?? I thought crested was a genetic trait :budgiedance:

crested is a recessive gene Riebie.

 

I don't know how the pins grow in for crested budgies sorry. Has there been any signs of attack in the nest?

Give it another week & post another photo.There is a different feather direction there.But it dosent look to be a tuffed,half crest or a full crest.I would like to see another photoin a week,to compare photoes.It not a feather pattern I have seen on a crest.

Edited September 11, 200718 yr by **KAZ**
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Do you know any of their parentage?? I thought crested was a genetic trait

No，I don’t know their parentage.

Give it another week & post another photo.There is a different feather direction there.But it dosent look to be a tuffed,half crest or a full crest.I would like to see another photoin a week,to compare photoes.It not a feather pattern I have seen on a crest.

I haven't seen this mutation before.I'll post another photos next week.

Try wiping the babies head with a damp cloth. Reason I say this is....just in case it isnt a crested....I have had chicks look like that. It turned out to be parents messy feeding and the head feathers got a little gummed up and stayed "parted" for awhile. When the chick was cleaned up there was no crested look.

Its still cute,maybe one of the parents is a budding hairdresser!!!! :(Laughing out loud):

It will be interesting to see later pictures, maybe you have a new mutation.