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I don't know why but i have bought a budgie of pink colour form a small poultry farm can budgies be of pink i never had seen this kind of colour in any budgeriger .how can i breed i same like that as my previous one was taken by my uncle's son

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There is no real pink budgies. We have had budgies who looked pink due to being on a product in the base of their cage that made them take up the colour and some got to be pink by their calcium blocks or cement perches that were coloured. But there is NO genetic pink budgie :)

Would we be able to see a picture?

He could of had a bath in rasberry cordial.I hope you did`nt pay to much.Thinking

you was buying a special budgie.

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Could he possibly be a rosey bourke, they look like pink budgies
it was a budgie and was not coloured but i am even surprised how can it was a pink one as after giving him a bath he was pink pink pink.Wierd
Would we be able to see a picture?
it was free to me as it was my friends farm
Would we be able to see a picture?
i will try my best to get it back from my brother living in delhi in winter holidays i.e., next month
There is no real pink budgies. We have had budgies who looked pink due to being on a product in the base of their cage that made them take up the colour and some got to be pink by their calcium blocks or cement perches that were coloured. But there is NO genetic pink budgie :budgiedance:
may be it can be you are more known to budgeriger as i have an experience of 6 months only

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It sounds like you have a bourke... they come in a good amount of mutations, these are my rosa bourkes.

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They are great birds! If you got lucky and got a male, you will hear him sing in the early am, and after the sun goes down. They are very enjoyable birds. :budgiedance:

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Wonder what happened to the pink budgie :P

 

 

You know how these things are KAZ...."it all comes out in the wash" :):D :rofl: :rofl:

Wonder what happened to the pink budgie :P

 

 

You know how these things are KAZ...."it all comes out in the wash" :):D :rofl: :rofl:

 

 

Yeah... :P maybe a stray red calcium perch was washed in with the albino budgies... :huh:

wow that is a pretty budgie! :D

 

 

wow that is a pretty budgie! :D

Its not a budgie.

 

 

Oh sorry.

 

 

:huh: *no offence that just cracked me up when i read it.*

Question?

 

what happens if you cross breed a rosy bourke with a budgie?

 

would you get a pink budgie??

 

or is it impossible to cross breed these birds?

 

if so how come you can cross bree dogs and.... cross breed lions and tigers? - and donkeys and horse and zebras?

 

just wondering.

They all have a similar genetic make up. There is a lot of difference with a budgie and a bourke. It is impossible for them to breed as I understand. With cross bred dogs they have all descended from the same creature. See..... even 12 year old kids know stuff. :P

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Hybrid bird species do exist. I've heard of a budgie and red rump rearing a youngster but this is heresay. I have no proof of this statement. It happens all the time. Members of the Cockatoo family freely interbreed. It is well documented that a scarlet chested parrot and princess parrot successfully raised a youngster. See here: http://www.talkingbirds.com.au/scarlet.php. Similarly, a Cockatiel and Galah have raised a youngster. See here: http://www.talkingbirds.com.au/galatiel.php

 

I see no reason why a bourke and budgie could not breed. Whether they want to is another matter. I think if the pair are put together when they are babies you would have a better chance of it happening. Still a long shot!

this is a good point. however, can we just not stick to budgies alone? personally it seems quite selfish or cruel to breed two different birds just to get 'a pink budgie'. even if it were possible to me it would be a shame that we cant stick with original species. but just my veiw. :P xx

I wasn't saying that hybrid birds don't exist. Personally I've seen a few. BUT...... Budgies are single species. As in there are no subspecies I have heard of. With the galah and cockatiel, a cockatiel is just a small species of cockatoo and I fully agree that they can hybridise. The chances of a budgie and a bourke liking each other and being compatible are not big. I have never heard of a budgie hybrid. I agree with LILBABYBUDGIES. If we keep hybridising then the species will become rare. The dingo is an example of this.... too many have hybridised with dogs and so the pure species are rare. Hybidising happens accidently, as with the galah and the cockatiel.

A lot of the big cats that have been created are test tube cubs too it's one thing for birds in the wild to cross breed, its a whole other story to go around trying to play with genetics and create a mongrel mix...

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back to pink budgies...

 

Click here

 

just to add fuel to the fire...

 

 

Does NOT pay to pull random pictures off the internet JB as we know that to be a bird of Barrie Shutts and there is a story behind that which is NOT a natural pink budgie. It is a joke Barry was playing on people at the time.

 

I think you know this already ?? :D

 

So shall we ignore this pink budgie ??????????????????

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I'm sorry, call me strange, but I don't see the fascination of a pink budgie. It looks way too odd. That one that you put the link to JB - I know it's a joke - but the blue is so dirty, not clean and clear like most sky blues - it looks more like it is meant to be a stuffed toy rather than a beautiful lovely budgie.

 

If there were a real pink budgie somewhere - it would be interesting to see, but I still would never want one. So am I strange? HAhaha maybe that shouldn't be answered :D

B):hap::D No KAZ I had no idea...... :huh: Really it was a joke....... :D:hap::D

 

 

In a word ..................

GULLIBLE

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