He's very pretty :grbud:

Going of topic for a sec, what is the difference between a Goldenface and a YF? I've only seen Goldenface pop up a few times in my research and I'd like to add it to my "Budgie Files" for future reference .[/color]

 

:grbud:

Golden face is a darker golden colour like the colour of sunflowers. Yellowface is paler....more of a lemon colour.

Ah, makes sense (Laughing out loud)

Thanks, Kaz

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EDIT:

 

Here are some more picture's that I hope will be helpful. Forgive the bluriness, Skittles wouldn't know how to sit still if his life depended on it .

 

The greyish parts on his primary's is actually a very pale combo of the blue/green/yellow....but I can't seem to get it to look like that in the pics. However, if at first you don't succeed....

Edited November 14, 200717 yr by Bec Sta

Still going with clearwing :grbud:, not greywing his markings are very light.

As for the cinnamon your last 2 pics are dark I can't see them very well.

I thought they might be, will try for another

Here's a better shot of the cinnamon-ish colour, though this picture was taken with a flash.

http://s243.photobucket.com/albums/ff181/b...rrent=Skits.jpg

(If i reduce it, you can't see the colour aswell)

 

Apologies for the double post, the 'edit' button wouldn't show up on my last one.

I see it are his throat spots cinnamon too?

From that last picture it certainly looks a little like Cinnamon, if you bred him & he threw some Cinnamon hens you would be sure.

 

The problem of whether he is Greywing or Clearwing is that Greywing, Clearwing & Dilute are apparently the same allele that has mutated three times & you have the added confusion that you can get a Dark Clearwing or a Lighter Greywing. There is always lots of variations in Mutations. That’s part of what showing is about, trying to get the perfect bird of any mutation.

Doesnt cinnamon dilute body colour ? So how can a bird with that bright a colours on its body also be cinnamon ?

i think it can but doesn't always Kaz

I have never seen a cinnamon budgie that hasnt got diluted body colour

maybe the clearwing gene is dominanting the coloring in this case? Do you have a clearwing cinnamon Kaz?

(Laughing out loud)...I am just making theories...

maybe the clearwing gene is dominanting the coloring in this case? Do you have a clearwing cinnamon Kaz?

LOL...I am just making theories...

Going from my own clearwings, I would say that THIS birds flights are more grey than cinnamon like a clearwing is meant to be. I cannot be cinnamon or you would see a different body colour.

So must be a clearwing....pretty bird anyway

So, clearwing? (Laughing out loud)

With the 'cinnamon'.

It is sexlinked(?) However, I was just wondering if the cinnamon gene is CoDominant or Incomplete Dominant?

Edited November 16, 200717 yr by Bec Sta

Sex-linked just follows the sex-linked rules, if you mate a sex-linked male it will throw it’s sex-linked colour to its daughters & its males will be split for it. If you mate a sex-linked hen with a non sex-linked colour only her males will be split for it & the females wont carry it, at all. As the name applies it’s a mutation that’s carried on the sex chromosome & seeing a hen has only one she can only be visual for a sex-linked colour & can’t carry it. There’s no Dominant or Co-dominant about it.

looking at the strength of colour of the grey I would think Full body greywing would match better. (with opaline still)

 

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